How did your ZT/75 love start and do you feel the same now?

[TomRS]

So on the back of another thread i made about where my love started it got me thinking.
Whats peoples stories how did you come to get your first zt/75 and why? and then why do you buy more and more?


My MG love started about 6 months ago i needed a work car to come over to and from barrow every week as i was putting too many miles on the RS6 so the missus found a K1.8 ZT for £400 on trader, as it was just round the corner from our house and i thought ideal runabout lets go take a look its literally in walking distance and very cheap!
Never ever looked at MG's or Rovers till that day, it was a mk2 in amazing condition and only 64k on the clock.
Drove great, but it was HORRENDOUSLY slow and i ended up flat out everywhere so it was bad on fuel and i decided it had to go, i fixed a few issues on it, serviced it and cleaned it i then made my mind up that they were really easy and quite enjoyable car to work on.

off i went into the unknown looking for diesel ZT's as i had my heart set on a MG now but wanted something a bit more economical.

So found a diesel trophy blue mk1 for £750 this required much TLC including full service, master cylinder, injectors cleaning etc etc so i did all my learning on that car and it was a joy to play around with, then came all the upgrades 190 brakes, mk2 seats, braided lines, egr blank etc etc as i found out more and more by joining this very group.
Then i liked them so much i kinda went a bit mad bidding on cars on eBay, had 5 and 2 breakers at one point.
a Solar red 190 Mk1
Anthracite 190 Mk1
XPG 190 Mk2
Trophy Blue CDTi Mk1
Trophy blue Tourer CDTi Mk1
Starlight Silver Tourer CDTi Mk1
Trophy blue 190 Mk1

And now this mk2 190 SE on LPG.

This ones a keeper though as it truly has got everything.

Probably end up with a few more over the years as I really want to try a 1.8t before I throw the towel in, but I wont ever be parting with this mk2.

Few pics of them dotted around here.