I've owned many MGAs (and currently retain 3, a Mk 2 Deluxe Coupe, my old Twin Cam race car and a 1500 with Fiberfab Jamaican body and GM V6 driveline).
Some of the (many) other MGAs I've owned were partially restored or used as beaters or waited many years to get to the point where I had time to restore them. But I have never held one anywhere near 33 years, if only in order to avoid 32 years worth of "Why don't you get rid of it if you aren't going to do anything with it?"
You are a good example for all of us slow restorers though - someone to point at and say "See - sometimes it takes awhile!"
PS - closest I've come was a mid 1700s grandfather clock that I had owned for 45 years before restoring it - and don't think I didn't hear about that every intervening year!
