For the full story, we spoke to the man behind the stand, Cherished Vehicle Insurance manager Peter Barrett. As well as running a Triumph 2.5PI as a daily and his family owning an MGTF 160, Peter completes agreed value assessments on an everyday basis and as such was well qualified to decide the MGF’s fate.
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