Howard, I suspect there would be many such as I who would disagree with your categorisation of the iconic reasonably affordable British sports car that the MGB is, and the heritage associated with the marque...?
Those of us who could make occasional use of minimal basic tools to maintain our own vehicles, perhaps over many a year, and could perhaps fix an old B, more than we might be able to repair some if not any modern machines in the case of a breakdown, without dependence on a cell phone and perhaps reliance on many other services that today we might take for granted, in the case of a brake-down..?
Triumphs of a similar era seemed to be no better or worse than MG`s... I suspect we Brits were very fortunate to have quite a few to chose from...? (-:
