{"id":42555,"date":"2014-05-16T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T00:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/?p=42555"},"modified":"2014-05-16T00:00:37","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T00:00:37","slug":"every-car-has-a-story-a-happy-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/every-car-has-a-story-a-happy-ending\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Car Has a Story: A Happy Ending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kress_IMG_1009_cropped_resized-220x169-1.jpg\" alt=\"Every Car Has a Story: A Happy Ending\" width=\"220\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-42556\" \/>In the first article about this car, George Kress described the fascinating discovery of an unrestored MGA which had been stored outside under a tarp and hadn&#8217;t been driven for more than forty five years.<\/p>\n<p>The restoration of George&#8217;s MGA has now been completed and, as promised, the original owner has had a ride in her &#8220;old&#8221; car &#8211; photos of the completed car and the previous owner are shown below:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kress_IMG_1005_resized.jpg\" alt=\"Kress Restoration\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kress_IMG_1005_resized.jpg 500w, https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kress_IMG_1005_resized-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kress_IMG_1006_resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kress_IMG_1006_resized.jpg 500w, https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kress_IMG_1006_resized-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kress_IMG_1007_resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kress_IMG_1007_resized.jpg 500w, https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kress_IMG_1007_resized-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kress_IMG_1010_resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kress_IMG_1010_resized.jpg 500w, https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kress_IMG_1010_resized-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kress_IMG_1015_resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kress_IMG_1015_resized.jpg 500w, https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kress_IMG_1015_resized-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kress_IMG_1018_resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kress_IMG_1018_resized.jpg 500w, https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kress_IMG_1018_resized-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kress_IMG_1022_resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kress_IMG_1022_resized.jpg 500w, https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kress_IMG_1022_resized-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kress_IMG_1023_resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kress_IMG_1023_resized.jpg 500w, https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kress_IMG_1023_resized-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We wish to thank George Kress and Bill Ballard for submitting this article and photos.  If you have a unique story about your MGA or Magnette, please forward your article and photos (with captions) to the Internet Coordinators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first article about this car, George Kress described the fascinating discovery of an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-namgar-member-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}