[h=2]MG TD[/h] It might not look like much, but this MG TD was likely the best-handling car you could buy in the U.S. in 1952. | YouTube/Pacific Classics



You might have never heard of it before, but without it there would likely be no Corvette or Mustang. The MG T-Type cars remained in production with incremental changes from 1936 to 1955, but the TD was something special. MG’s excellent-handling sports cars were popular with GIs stationed in Europe, who then shipped them home and raced them back in America.
The TD was the first model officially sold in the U.S. And though they were ancient looking (even in the 1950s), they almost single-handedly kicked off and legitimized the sports car in America. It’s no coincidence that by mid-decade, Ford and Chevy were offering Americanized interpretations of their own, in the form of the Thunderbird and Corvette. Oddly enough, in virtually every search run by Hemmings, the TD was the most popular classic car in Wyoming.