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Ross Kelly
Australia
227 Posts |
 Posted - 25/10/2017 : 13:53:26
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Hi All,
I have been given to sell for a friend an original manual for The MG Six Mark 11. Hard green cover vgc, interior pages vgc little or no foxing. Also includes the List of Spare Parts for the 18/80 M.G. Six Sports Mk 11. vgc.
Any guidance on price for what I would think is relatively rare book.
cheers
ross kelly
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George Eagle
United Kingdom
3240 Posts |
Posted - 25/10/2017 : 19:43:56
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Hi Ross
As you state a rare manual, I would guess it has to be worth £250?
I certainly cannot recall seeing such a manual for sale for a long time.
Regards
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KevinA
New Zealand
671 Posts |
Posted - 25/10/2017 : 20:32:56
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Hi Ross
I suspect George is in the right ballpark but I'm more interested to learn how it ended up in Australia. Is there any information about whether it went out with a particular car or when? 18/80s aren't common anywhere, less so on our side of the world.
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creamcracker
United Kingdom
116 Posts |
Posted - 25/10/2017 : 21:11:54
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Hi Ross,
Interesting find.Not too sure who would now pay that sort of money for one, as I reckon most MKII owners who want one, already have a copy. That leaves a specialist collector of MG memorabilia.
Like Kevin, I was going to ask you if there is any specific car or owner info in the manual to see if I could trace its origin as to the best of my knowledge there were only ever two MKII cars in Oz..
Keith
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Ross Kelly
Australia
227 Posts |
Posted - 26/10/2017 : 05:24:24
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Hi All,
The most likely car is one imported into Australia by the late Rod Hiley. This car was sold back to the UK some time ago and I believe is now owned by Keith Herkes. There are 3 18/80 in Australia to the best of my knowledge.
regards
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creamcracker
United Kingdom
116 Posts |
Posted - 26/10/2017 : 07:08:11
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Hi Ross,
Rod Hiley's car which is now mine, is a MKI- as are the three remaining 18/80s in Oz.
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Ian Bowers
United Kingdom
942 Posts |
Posted - 26/10/2017 : 08:39:41
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Some 5 years ago an original J3 Manual was on Ebay for around £350, and it sold.
Ian Bowers
OD 6791
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sam christie
United Kingdom
3101 Posts |
Posted - 26/10/2017 : 08:56:53
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How many MG Six Mark 11's exist?
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KevinA
New Zealand
671 Posts |
Posted - 26/10/2017 : 09:46:24
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Hi Sam
My figures aren't gospel here but in broad terms
236 Mk2s were built, around 30 survive
There are more like 35 surviving Mk1s out of 500 (maybe 502)
Of the 65 or so survivors Keith has 2 and I have one so we've just accounted for almost 5% of the existing cars!
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creamcracker
United Kingdom
116 Posts |
Posted - 26/10/2017 : 11:00:55
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Close Kevin : 33 MKIs, 27MKIIs and 2 MKIIIs
For those interested, more information at-
http://www.earlymgsociety.co.uk/
Regards.
Keith.
PS Ross, you haven't actually said whether there is any PO or car details in the manual.
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Ross Kelly
Australia
227 Posts |
Posted - 26/10/2017 : 11:35:12
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Hi Keith
There are no marks or references to a specific car in the book.
Joe Wilson sends his best wishes, he is restoring an Austin Seven & just purchased a Morgan
cheers
ross kelly
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Foz
United Kingdom
769 Posts |
Posted - 26/10/2017 : 13:39:48
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HI keith,
numbers can be misleading as I recently found out ! Look at the Mechanical model eng. postings on this Forum............
My car is the Mk11 prot0type... it has an Mk1 chassis number......but you cannot mistake a Mk1 for a Mk11 ... much more iron in the chassis! It also has a lot of modified Mk1 bits to fit....
I also called JO29/ A 0351 a replica Tigress... but was then shown factory documents that call it a Tigress.... so an M.G. A became an M.G. B.
so just counting the start/finish of a series does not necessarily give you a real number of cars!
Reading that again I can see letters can also be misleading.... I have an M.G. C. 4 cylinders and 750cc. NOT an M.G. MGC.with its more....
FOZ
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creamcracker
United Kingdom
116 Posts |
Posted - 26/10/2017 : 22:38:11
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Although this is probably a first edition of the MKII Manual, it still shows an image of a MKI salonette on the first page. The later edition still shows a MKI, but a speed model. Perhaps they were trying to save money on new artwork for the MKII!!!
Keith
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5Wheels
New Zealand
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Posted - 27/10/2017 : 00:55:47
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Hi Ross - certainly an interesting find. As Keith indicates, there were only 2 MKIIs that came to this part of the world early on (both I believe just post WWII) and both to NZ not Australia, one has since returned to the UK. So my assumption is that this manual must have emigrated without a car but it would be interesting to hear more of how the current owner ended up with it and try and figure out which car it originally came from?
Regards
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KevinA
New Zealand
671 Posts |
Posted - 27/10/2017 : 01:06:58
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Chris
At least one of the cars that came to NZ came prewar. There are adverts for it (a saloon) for sale second hand in the latter half of the 30s
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Cooperman
United Kingdom
760 Posts |
Posted - 27/10/2017 : 08:24:21
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Nearly a dozen 18/80's, Mk1 and Mk2, went to NZ in the 70's courtesy of Irvine Black, including my old Mk1 with a special tourer body, Kevin's car and Chris's car, or was your car Chris already there?. But of course they were all in bits.
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