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Cris DaBica
USA
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 Posted - 08/05/2017 : 00:46:39
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I've been digging through my parents' collection of transparencies—which include many early New England MG T Register events—and found a handful of MMM cars. By all means, please fill in the blanks as far as any information you may have.
This car's registration is listed in an old Triple M bulletin as belonging to an L2 (special?)
I have no notes on this car; it almost looks like it has smooth hood sides!
This oddity...a J2 wearing what appear to be M-Type wheels?
And finally, two from the homestead. That's me as an infant, during the summer of 1973, in my dad's swept-wing J2 (my mom and their Tickford in the background of one of the photos.) He co-owned the J2 together with Rev./Dr./Prof. Dick Knudson. I don't have the s/n for it other than knowing it began with "J3xxx" as my dad said—owing to the limited knowledge of how the numbering system worked back then—he and Dick thought they owned a J3 for a short time until they were corrected. I know not who they bought it from nor where it went afterwards. Time being a flat circle, my dad now finds himself again owning both a J2 and a Tickford TA, all these years later. |
Edited by - Cris DaBica on 08/05/2017 00:47:20 |
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JMH
United Kingdom
913 Posts |
Posted - 08/05/2017 : 06:59:34
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The J2 "oddity" with M Type wheels was for sale as a runner a year or so back. I have its' details somewhere.
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DickMorbey
United Kingdom
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Posted - 08/05/2017 : 09:30:01
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MG 2603 is recorded as an L2, L2056, first used as a University Motors demonstration car. First owner logged as one T. Wisdom - the famous Tommy Wisdom - the car took part in the Alpine Trial. Now believed to be in the UK and living near Shrewsbury. However it's fair to add that it does not bear a particularly close resemblance to the car shown in your picture ... perhaps the American car just liked the reg. number?
Registration number MG 1933 crops up now and again in jurisdictions where different rules apply, compared with the UK. For example J3531 (NZ) and J4341 (Sweden) carry this mark! If there is a J-type carrying that number in the USA we don't know about it over here - unless Lew can shed any light?
Dick Morbey
PA/PB 0743
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Edited by - DickMorbey on 08/05/2017 09:32:38 |
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LewPalmer
USA
3248 Posts |
Posted - 08/05/2017 : 14:56:36
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MG1933 is not a registration number that is associated with any NAMMMR car that I am aware of.
Lew Palmer
PA1169, PB0560 |
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JMH
United Kingdom
913 Posts |
Posted - 08/05/2017 : 18:49:01
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The J2 with M Type wheels: It was advertised for sale at Gull Wing Motorcars, Astoria, NY in Sept 2012, described as "an older restoration". The reg under that MG 1933 plate is JH 5520. The car also wore the UK reg GYD 728D on the rear in the advert (a Bristol number from 1966 I think). The seller sent me a pic of the dumb iron, clearly showing J2 over 3389 in the usual font & format.
That any help Lew? The car must still be somewhere.
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George Eagle
United Kingdom
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Posted - 08/05/2017 : 18:51:53
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L2056, Registration MG2603, is owned in the UK by John Clark who has rebuilt it, the car was featured in an article in the March 2004 issue of the MG Enthusiast magazine. It now has a side mounted Marshall supercharger.
I think the picture is of L2056 when it resided in the USA, it can be identified by the larger than standard fuel tank. I will add this picture to web site which already contains another which must have been taken at the same time?
George
L2023 |
Edited by - George Eagle on 08/05/2017 18:58:00 |
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JMH
United Kingdom
913 Posts |
Posted - 08/05/2017 : 19:32:07
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Cris, Dad had both your father & Dick Knudson as owners of J3581 (the red J2?). It was No 610 on the Register, the next owner was a Mr Bill Ranelle, but it seems to have gone to ground in the USA sometime after 1985.
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LewPalmer
USA
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Posted - 08/05/2017 : 19:57:10
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None of the chassis numbers show up in the NAMMMR database, so either they were never registered with us, or were not registered since 1999 when I became the Registrar.
Lew Palmer
PA1169, PB0560 |
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Cris DaBica
USA
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Posted - 11/05/2017 : 02:32:38
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Thanks all for the commentary and information, especially the details you added, Jeremy! Coincidentally, I've read and reread your Dad's J2 book a few times over the last couple of weeks.
If I come across any other photos I will add them here |
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