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TomDrewett
United Kingdom
277 Posts |
 Posted - 05/04/2013 : 16:05:40
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Easier with a reg number, taken at Brands Hatch, drivers name forgotten. He recalls the car going particularly well.
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Eric Taylor
France
157 Posts |
Posted - 05/04/2013 : 16:45:02
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I think it is J H Stacey in F1172.
Regards Eric.
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George Eagle
United Kingdom
3237 Posts |
Posted - 05/04/2013 : 17:23:58
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Definitely either an F or L, Steve Dear used to race an F Type and famously won the Mary Harris trophy?
If the car is F1172 then it is recorded as being in New Zealand.
George
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JMH
United Kingdom
911 Posts |
Posted - 05/04/2013 : 18:06:12
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Just to throw a spanner in the works: Could it be a PA? Brands April 1965, here it is in the paddock:
My archivist has let me down, this one is only captioned "MGCC Brands April 1965 PA & L Type", no names, slap-dash or what?
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JMH
United Kingdom
911 Posts |
Posted - 05/04/2013 : 18:13:21
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Just realized why it "went rather well" - this is a view under the bonnet! Peter Bentley was the driver.
JH
Scrub that - only the Number "58" & venue tie up. The two cars are different  |
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George Eagle
United Kingdom
3237 Posts |
Posted - 05/04/2013 : 18:37:35
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The L Salonette was driven by Phil Bayne-Powell.
The body off this car was used in the restoration of the lovely L1 Salonette owned by Rod Ptak and seen at MG Live last year. I think the donor car was made into a special in Japan?
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paul55
Luxembourg
731 Posts |
Posted - 05/04/2013 : 18:46:52
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Tom, George and Jeremy, some wonderful evocative photos from the not too distant past…please keep on finding them. We should all keep photo records of our cars with dates and places where the photos were taken, as in 40 or 50 years time they will also show a time gone by.
Paul.
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Eric Taylor
France
157 Posts |
Posted - 05/04/2013 : 20:30:21
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Here are two photos of EV 7125 taken at a concours and gymkhana meeting at Abingdon on June 6th 1964. The car was actually light green but the slides have faded.
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The owner was John Stacey then and I think he worked for Sports and Specials, London.
I still have the regs and entry list for this event (Dad and I marshalled there and somewhere I've got some 8mm film of the gymkhana!)
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Allan Bentley
United Kingdom
257 Posts |
Posted - 05/04/2013 : 21:04:01
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Yes well noted Jeremy.
This was the year we put the Zoller back on PA0579. My twin brother, thought that by removing the headlamps we may get it to go faster than the previous year when we had shared the drive unblown!
It never ran unblown again, nearly 50 years and several long term stays in SW France it is now back in the Uk and starts on the button. The aluminium panels shom in the first photo covered a 'distressed area' which followed an 'excursion under a truck' on the way to the Salisbury Trial in 1964 (or) the year that Churchill died)
Brands hatch 1965 is correct. I have a lot of slides of MGCC events 1963 onwards.
Great to see the photo. The oil tank was discarded and the pump fed from the head as Pomeroy said the it liked a bit of pressure to work correctly.
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Colin McLachlan
United Kingdom
991 Posts |
Posted - 06/04/2013 : 09:09:41
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Just for fun, here's a photo of a project I bought as an 18yo (ca 1965), and abandoned about a year later. Does anyone out there know PB0399, reg. JY7546, register no. 822? It was a four seater at that time.
Here's my current PA taken in 1937 with owner Brad Bradberry, who sadly died just a few years ago.
Colin
PA 0613
MG3242
Register No. 2591 |
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Colin McLachlan
United Kingdom
991 Posts |
Posted - 06/04/2013 : 09:13:56
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And another one with Brad and Joan, just after the war. Note the tiny flagstaff fitted to the radiator cap. Presumably it carried a union flag during the war, although I have no knowledge of it being on the road then. I do know that it was in a lock-up garage when the house next door was totally destroyed by a bomb.
Colin
PA 0613
MG3242
Register No. 2591 |
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Eric Taylor
France
157 Posts |
Posted - 06/04/2013 : 13:21:39
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Scanned from Safety Fast June 1965, Brands Hatch April 11th 1965.
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Allan Bentley
United Kingdom
257 Posts |
Posted - 06/04/2013 : 14:31:05
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Thanks Eric, for another trip down memory lane.
Looks like the Austin Nash Metropolitain? in the background had break failure whilst parking.
Allan Bentley, younger twin brother of Peter. |
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tonym
United Kingdom
653 Posts |
Posted - 06/04/2013 : 16:17:37
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Colin
Hope you are keeping well
PB0399 is still on the books as JY7546, belonging to a Malcolm Jones
Best wishes
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Colin McLachlan
United Kingdom
991 Posts |
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Bob Stringfield
United Kingdom
854 Posts |
Posted - 07/04/2013 : 22:24:20
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Colin. The drums on PA 0613 in the old photos appear not to be the black with which we are assured all brake drums were painted.
The 1940s photos of PA 0603 also show the drums like yours, apparently painted silver.
Any ideas?
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