MGB GT - Wales Adventure 

Great video, Mark. I took a similar trip (without the camping equipment) from South London to visit friends in Wales a few weeks ago. It was the first long trip in my 73 MBG roadster, and I did it for exactly the same reasons as you: just to see if I could. The roads there are great for driving these old cars, and far better scenery than we get at home! Now I'll have no qualms about some longer trips next year... maybe even the NC500!

Great videos Mark. Thanks for sharing these beautiful driving views with us across the pond! Just bought my first MGB here in the states. A 1971 GT in British Racing Green. When I went looking for MGB content creators that are still actively producing video you where the first one that popped up, awesome! Thanks again.

Thanks for the video. Brought me back to my days in MGBGT in the early 70s from Birmingham to wales.

'Wales slightly wetter than I had hoped' I loved that as a veteran of holidays in Wales! Great video thanks so much.

Excellent trip and video. Cars are for driving. I miss my 69 MGC GT bought in '70. I now have a 63 B. From Oregon USA.

Stunning video, good old MG! love to see more along the same lines.

Amazing video! Thanks Mark!

There really are some stunning driving roads with such unspoilt scenery in Wales. Your tea making apparatus though made the phrase "glutton for punishment" spring to mind!

Lovely and peaceful road trip. beautiful car, right exhaust note, and we’ll matched by the music👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 thanks for sharing

Wonderful video, thanks for documenting the adventure. I am going to travel across North America in a MGC roadster with a hard top pulling a motorcycle tent trailer for my retirement days. This is an inspiration for me 🙂

l opened up google maps to see where you were heading and was looking for route signs. Nicely done.

Hi Mark! Just found your excellent channel and subscribed. If have just got my 1979 Roadster back on the rod after a major restoration (over a 7 year period!) including a complete chrome conversion. Absolute bliss to be driving her again and guess what? We are about to move to Wales in the nest 3 weeks! We have bought a place in SW Wales, about 30 mins drive inland from Cardigan Bay. Can't wait to tour round in the MGB! I am no mechanic but will definitely be using your servicing videos to save myself a bit of cash. Thanks a again for providing such an informative channel for us MGB nuts! Regards, Steve.

Superb quality filming and excellent editing. Congratulations…looking forward to more adventures.

Love the aerial shots!

What an amazing route. I love MG's and the countryside driving.

Road adventure calms the mind and soul👍🏻

Really enjoyed this and very professionally produced . Look forward to seeing more of these. 👍👍👍👍👍

Excellent video with some great shots, especially from the drone. Loved the mix of driving and camping. Keep them coming. Jeff

I’m impressed by the spare tools you carry with you, “just in case” 👏👏

A beautiful and endearing video.Thank -You. PM

Thanks Mark. Love your videos, keep putting them up. FYI, you’ve helped inspire me to finally buy an MGB GT and I bought one a couple of weeks ago, a 1971 GT. So thanks. How have you learnt so much about cars and engines? I don’t know that much and have already had to replace the petrol tank - good old RU-vid. Cheers jerome (From NZ).

what a marvelous idea... a camping trip with the BGT complete with roadside cooking in a fair bit of wind ;) the MG sure looks ready for adventure with that roof rack and all that stuff! Wales must be a great place for driving, if one could find a dry day! Beautiful fox, too...

Excellent vid as always. My, you are super organised, well impressed. Camping is such fun, even in November! Glad and not surprised the MG did so well, they are great cars. Watching the vid really made the viewer feel informed and there with you, sharing all the experiences...including the fox😄. Hope those dreams have ended now😅😅. Anyway, great trip and a great part of the world, Wales is about 20 miles from me and those roads can be silky smooth cant they. Will have to do a Wales adventure myself, either in the Jag or the Capri. As always you have inspired me and many others no doubt 🙂. Thanks Mark

A really, really enjoyable video. Thanks. I would love to see more camping videos and it would be interesting to see a detailed look at all the gear. Please keep them coming, you have a really good presentation style.

Thank you for this video [and thank you RU-vid for the algorithm recommendation!!!] I want a mgb gt, as a 2002 mx5 nbfl 1.8vvt owner on the cusp of being ulez compliant and working in london, i would love an mgb, i fear but am also excited to have to own so many tools and learning to work on classics. Idk where im going with this lol... I want an mgb, and i want to do trips across the uk and even europe with it, maybe ill give it a go with the mx5 first (i have been camping to the peak district last year in it but failed due to a storm in the summer ruining my hiking plans) seeing this video as well as a conversation with an owner of a triumph spitfire at my work in london i had today has really motivating me to go ahead and go for it. Im the coming months ill be selling my first car (kia picanto with a broken gearbox) and saving my way up to getting a mgb!!

I would love to take some longer trips in my mgb. I’ve daily driven it for a couple of years and 40,000 miles but I haven’t done many long trips. Keep driving, it’s inspiring. Maybe someday I’ll make it all the way across the USA.

Yeah dream indeed, it’s my wish to travel too, I didn’t realize how useful this type of content could have been, hope I’ll start travel one day too, and hope I’ll get advices from you also, but the trip organization… it was just superb. It was pleasure to watch, Cheers.

Great video, beautiful car, awesome driving and aerial shots too

It looks like you are have a great trip, lovely driving roads. Cheers Bob

Enjoyed that, nice video. It looks an epic road to drive. Fair play to camping out in November albeit you caught lucky with the lack of rain by the look of it. Thanks

Loved this video. Once I source another GT, I shall be doing something very similar. I love camping and I love MGB's what's not to like. Be great to know what kit you had with you. The GT's in particular can fit quite a lot in them, my brother managed to fit a complete drum kit when he borrowed my car one time! Be great to see more video's of this type, perhaps an overseas trip. I can certainly recommend Holland as a camping destination. Thanks, Ant

Great video mark, the wife and I do weekend getaways in our 74 gt. We don’t “rough it” like you but it inspires me to try it. Cheers from Massachusetts!

Cracking video - looked amazing - must pluck up the courage to take mine on longer road trips!

You make a very good point about being able to use more of the performance in a classic - you can give them a bit of a thrash without being antisocial and, as you said, their narrower width is very welcome on the more interesting roads. Great video Mark but I will stick with hotels and b&b's!

Living the dream. Thanks, great video.

Another really enjoyable video - thanks for making these. As someone else suggested NC500 or many of the other road trip options on the west coast of Scotland would be good - perhaps a tour of Skye?

Came across your channel by accident after looking up MGs, superb content and gained a subscriber! Absolutely fantastic video and road, man after my own heart as its something I'd love to do with my car too - although I have a Z3 2.8. I'd love an MGB GT too however, stunning machine.

The Black Mountain Pass looks a lot quieter than when I was there in my BGT in July! It seemed full of Ferraris, 9-11s, pottering locals and suicidal sheep. You went at the right time. (Maybe Exmoor for the next classic camping damping adventure? Lots of good 'B' roads there.)

Really enjoyed this one Mark, personally I would rather a swift kick in the nether regions than go camping but you made it look fun and the fact you got all that gear in a B proves how useful the GT still is.. Great driving a classic through Wales ,t really is a beautiful place for a spin..

Amazing video! Would love to hear more about where you got the camping equipment

Nice video mate. Camping in my B is in my ‘to do’ list too.

Black Mountains .... a beautiful area with lots of old derelict buildings from the old mining days. loved the video ....how I wished it was me there camping ....but in better weather for sure. You probably need a wind break for your stove . It would be really interesting to see a detailed video of how you set up and operate 'follow me mode' on your quad whilst driving. p.s. the GT looks great ....hopefully getting another MGB GT myself this week

Well that brought back memories of my wife and I camping in our GT back in the 70s. We would regularly drive 600 miles to the east coast (Massachusetts) from Toronto . Never took as much gear as you but did include two bicycles on a hatch rack as well as gear on the roof rack. Used to do that trip in 10 hours overnight on a long weekend. I used to remove the rear seat which gives much. More space. Still have the car but not quite so adventuresome theses days. PS: I’m intrigued as to how you got the drone shots of you driving the car??

Great vid looks like your ready for a trip down to the Le Mans 24hr next year 😀👍

Inspiring stuff man. I keep meaning to do a trip like this myself - just me, the car, and the camera, but I always worry the kids and\or the wife will think "why is Dad going off on his own?!"

Let's go a little off on a tangent and discuss having a shower in a little green tent with tepid water in November in the UK. This would take a level of bravery matched only by those latter-day heroes storming the beaches during the Normandy landings in 1945. Given the size of this tiny tent, it necessitates disrobing in the main saloon of the living quarters, a feat unto itself. And now, naked, standing in a crouched position, one would need to cover one's modesty during the transit, barefoot, to the ablutions facility: that little green tent. Forward planning would have removed the chemical toilet and secured the necessary cleansing lotions and potions in advance. Once inside the accommodation, it would be advisable to deposit the hitherto modesty towel outside on the damp grass in readiness for a very wet exit. Now imagine the green hew from the canvas reflecting on the goosebumped white flesh of the brave soul about to endure the agony of the chill water. Does one shampoo one's hair? According to folklore, going outside with wet hair guarantees a head cold. Meanwhile, one's manhood shrinks to cowardice and disappears, out of sight in search of warmth in the comfort of pubic shrubbery. A wet and still soapy arm searches blindly through a slit in the tent for the towel that offers a little relief from the glacial drippings before a quick jog back to the relative comfort of the main saloon. Was it worth it? In the absence of a fair damsel? OF COURSE NOT! After all, a little, shall we say, masculine pheromones wafting within the intrepid MGB GT on the return journey would be entirely appropriate in the world of classic cars.

You are a very brave soul….. Spectacular video ! Who flew the drone ?

You'll need a few bees, if your stoping here for the night in November, your mad lol. Nice to hear a real man chooses an MG over one of ford things ;) lol

Amazing impressions and very nice ‘glamping‘ setup 🤣. Also very cool to see you drive the GT in that weather! One question though: I saw that you seem to have a modern hydraulic holder for the tailgate besides the original holders. Why is that? Safety fast from Cologne Klaus

What road were you on at 3mins 30secs. The A4069 Llangadog and Upper Brynaman is a fab road, also the A40 through crickhowell, Brecon, Llandovery all the way to Carmarthen.

Great video. I’m both a camping enthusiast and a ‘73 MGB GT owner. Never had the guts to go on long trips with her. But after watching this video I may take the plunge. Where did you get the roof rack from? I too have a webasto roof and definitely having a roof rack would be a massive help. Please let us know. Thanks again for this great opportunity to see Wales !

Epic roads in Wales, they are hard to find in Flanders. Too many houses...

Found a handful here in the US for under $5k. I know what I’m working for now!

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Nice video, thanks for posting. Two questions. 1. how did you get the drone footage? 2. Wales looks very interesting, kind of barren but would love to go visit. But why don't they plant some trees?

Liked the Video

Great videos Mark. Also I really like your steering wheel. Could you please let me know what brand, model, colour and size is it? Is it the thicker version? Thanks.

@7:35 why didnt u use the car door as a windbreak ?

Love it. Boring question sorry....what mpg do you think you would get on a run?

Forgot to ask in my last comment, Mark, but how did you film the overhead driving shots? I assume with a drone? If so, was someone with you or did you have it linked to the car?

NC500 Perhaps ?

I feel like you could remove the passenger seat and camp inside the car. You really don't need more than a duffel bag's worth of stuff.

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You don't need to wash have a dump in a pub or cafe you can live weeks like this showers are not required for at least 3 weeks. You take far too much stuff it's clear your not ex military!

If you need a roof rack you have too much gear!

Great piece of camera work / " film ".........but I am disappointed in how heavy you travel., it the shape / CG shift., of the roof rack., ..........for example did you need a table and a cool box., would the cool box not double as both.,did you need the toilet tent.,was the site that under serviced.,did you need a cool box at all.,its got ni on twice the volume of its internal volume..a reflector bag & an ice pack would have kept the sausages cool..etc etc..........your going out to look for untraveled corners., but take out soo much weight you have to slow down to get round them................to quote another maker............add lightness.. With attention to detail., you should be able to avoid the roof rack.,and have the pleasure of a car which will give you what., 10 / 15 miles an hour more on corners., and notably more to the gallon..Having said all that.,one thing I have found in camping., is cardboard., a couple of layers under your back will give as much insulation as a camping matt.,but unlike another piece of plastic will do some " wicking "., and take some of the I've just climbed out of a plastic bag feeling out of the " morning after " feeling of camping...yes.,you use it once and throw it away.,but it's easily obtained & easily disposed of...........and if you get a big enough piece.,you can cover the whole " floor "., and combat the condensate that settles on the ground sheet too. Having said all that., a great piece of film.........what camera.? Yes.,yes., I will agree we all do it different.......one man's milk contain is another man's screen washer bottle..