Tag: MG TD
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One Day in Cambridge
In 1953 two first-year Harvard Business School students, Francis E Baker (HC ‘51, HBS ‘55) and Gérard Fabry (HBS ‘55), were walking back from Cambridge when they decided, as Gerry recalls, that they should drive to Rio de Janeiro. That was the decision that launched a 16,000 mile “car trip” on the Pan American…
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The Very Rough Road to Rio — Hagerty Drivers Club Article
This month the article for the Hagerty Drivers Club magazine has been printed and published online: https://www.hagerty.com/media/great-reads/the-rough-road-to-rio-an-mg-adventure-for-the-ages Great work by Stefan Lombard, the Editor at Large of Hagerty Drivers Club magazine. He really took an initial article I had and a set of press clippings, and brought in so much more. Credit to Kim Dyson…
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Working on Boston to Rio
I’ve started working on organizing and researching the trip my father did in 1954 with Gérard Fabry. The short version of the story is that instead of getting a summer internship from business school, they decided to drive from Cambridge to Rio de Janeiro in a 1953 MG TD. Sponsors, press passes, letters of introduction…