MGB Number 250,000 has a Local Connection

An excellent article by Ken Smith in the May/June issue of the North American MGB Register's excellent publication MGB Driver about the 250,000th MGB built. The car has a connection to the Mobile, Alabama area. If you aren't a member of the Register, you should join now and get your own copy of the Driver.

The car in question was given away by British Leyland in order to gain much needed publicity and help keep the aging MGB on the shopping list of sports car buyers. As it happened, the car was won by a Mobile resident who took delivery of it at the almost-new Road Atlanta race course.

Fast forward to 2009 and the article in the MGB Driver telling the story of the car and the contest jogged some memories. At the 2000 British Car Festival, a young man came by with photos of a Blaze MGB GT in less than perfect condition seeking investors in a restoration of the car. A sign on the roof of the car was the same as the one in the photo above. Yes, the man had the 250,000th MGB built.

The show was at its close and during the confusion, the young man with the photos disappeared. No name, no phone number--nothing.

If you know where MGB number 250,000 is drop me an email here at the SABCC site. I would love to see the car and let the world know that it still exists.