The saga drags on... I'll post more details shortly, when I have had time to cool off, otherwise I may write something I may later regret.

Suffice to say that we are just going around in circles and I am now no nearer getting the car on the road than I was when I was told that the cage wouldn't be passed by MSNZ. Meanwhile, another two months has now elapsed and absolutely zero progress.

If anyone wants to buy the most expensive MG Magnette in the World, send me a PM. I suggest you then insure it; set fire to it; (carefully); get it written off; claim off the insurance; buy it back and put in a 44mm hoop to current specs (you may have to cut off the roof to do it, but the roof will need repainting anyway), because at the rate we are progressing, I'll be too decrepid to ever get any fun out of it.