{"id":104,"date":"2016-12-17T04:57:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T04:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mgsilkroad.mgcc.com.au\/?page_id=104"},"modified":"2017-02-21T01:45:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T01:45:08","slug":"burgundy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mgsilkroad.mgcc.com.au\/?page_id=104","title":{"rendered":"Burgundy"},"content":{"rendered":"

My MGB-GT \u2013 code-named Burgundy \u2013 is the baby of the group, built back in 1973. Which might be an auspicious year because that\u2019s the year I wrote Across Asia on the Cheap<\/em>, the first Lonely Planet guidebook. It\u2019s also the only car with air-conditioning, that wasn\u2019t intentional, it came with it when I bought it. Of course car air-con didn\u2019t work that well 44 years ago.<\/p>\n

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Here I am with Burgundy in Melbourne, pre-departure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My MGB-GT \u2013 code-named Burgundy \u2013 is the baby of the group, built back in 1973. Which might be an auspicious year because that\u2019s the […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8qvTj-1G","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2,"url":"https:\/\/mgsilkroad.mgcc.com.au\/?page_id=2","url_meta":{"origin":104,"position":0},"title":"About The Trip","date":"May 10, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"In 2015, at the end of the South American adventure, John Bastian said to Mike Herlihy, \u201cuno mas\u201d (one more). 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