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MG MGA - Where is SRX210?

Since EX182 has found a new home, it got me wondering what happened to the MGA fastbacks.

Is there a website with large/high quality pictures (suitable for printing) of the EX etc series of cars...or similar photos of factory/works garages?
Kemper

You should have been at Silverstone, it was there:

http://www.motorfestival.co.uk/mga%20srx210.htm
dominic clancy

SRX 210 is very much alive and well. Watch upcoming issue of Octane magazine. The real Works cars are all doing fine and in good hands where they are used at the proper times and places.
I am not sure what is meant by Fastbacks (plural). I know of only one.
I don't think that there are any real EX182's left, though, sad to say, just some replicas of varying quality and pedigree. However, there are many photos in the MGA Register archive and in the various books of the Le Mans prototypes.
Steve Dixon
Steve Dixon

SRX 210 belongs to Bob West and is kept in Yorkshire, UK. It featured on the MGCC Le Mans Run in June alongside one of the very early production cars (10105 - 5th production chassis) MBL 867. Some pictures of both cars on: http://www.mgcars.org.uk/mgccmga/ hit the Navigation bar on the left side, then news, then the 5 July pictures from Le Mans.

Steve
Steve Gyles

Kemper,

sent me your email address and I'll sent the high resolution pics. I took some during my various visits to bob west' shop.

koen
Koen

Thanks:
slash5bmw@ya[DELETETHIS]hoo.com
Kemper

I've been in contact with Bob recently and he has told me that he is coming over for a holiday and will be at the October Lime Rock event. I certainly look forward to meeting him. Thanks for the LeMans photo link,,,

Michael
Michael

Michael

Bob is a real nice guy. He is always my first port of call when I need MGA help (this BBS excepted!). He knows most things worth knowing about MGAs both from technical and historical aspects and is one of the prime sources in Clausager's 'Original MGA'.

As this topic and others on the BBS at the moment are talking about the historic angle, I would be interested to see your post after the Lime Rock event (assuming you meet Bob).

For example, I have had a discussion with him about EX182 cars and he expressed his concern about the number of so called EX182 cars that, although steeped in MGA racing history and most probably are genuine MG Competition Department race/rally prepared cars, are not original EX cars.

Over here in England we have the unique game of cricket. At the home of the game at Lords in London is the 'original' cricket bat of the most famous cricketer of all time - W G Grace. However, the bat that hangs in its place of honour is reputed to have had about 5 new handles and 6 new blades during its life (i.e. the whole bat has been replaced about 5 times!). How original is that bat? Yes it may have been used by the old master after its 5th rebuild, but can it be classed as the original?

Food for thought.

Enjoy the event.

Steve
Steve Gyles

We have a simular story about tha ax used by George Washington, the handle broke a few times and was replaced and when the head was so worn it wouldn't take an edge it to was replaced.
R J Brown

The japanese do the same thing with Samurai swords. While the great, great grandfather a couple of centuries back might have replaced the handle, and another ancestor might have replaced the blade, it is still the same sword.
mike parker

I know of a Porsche 906 being rebuilt after a recent run-in with a tire wall. I asked a similar question and was told that as long as the piece containing the car number is re-used, it's still the "same" car. Race cars get bashed to pieces when used, so none are original as they left the factory. Most were sold and used by private drivers, as the factory wasn't interested in "last year's racecar".
Kemper

For any MGA or other classic car to retain the right to the original UK registration mark it must use:

The original unmodified chassis or unaltered bodyshell (i.e. body and chassis as one unit - monocoque); or

A new chassis or monocoque bodyshell of the same specification as the original supported by evidence from the dealer/manufacturer (e.g. receipt)

And two other major components from the original vehicle - see list below:

Suspension (front & back), Axles (both), Transmission , Steering Assembly, engine.

This equally applies to MGA competition cars and any EX182 cars, if any survived their racing careers, as they were street legal and had UK registration plates .

Food for thought

Steve
Steve Gyles

Steve
I note your reference to MBL 867. Excuse this nit-picking correction ~ based on my belief, I may well not be right.
Chassis 10105 is not a production car. It is a pre-production car. There were 5 (some say 6, but that's another story) pre-production cars all laid down in May 1955, just after the Ex182's. With one exception, all were tyrolite green and RHD. These 5 cars were then developed over the next few months. According to the Gaydon Production records, MBL (MaBeL)was "built" by July and was actually sent to the Competition Dept in October. None of the 5 pre-production cars were sold until much later but were used for a variety of tasks, press, development, publicity, and in MaBeL's case, competition. It was probably the car, wearing the ubiquitous factory plate KMO 326 (might have been 10104 but that wsn't a Comps dept car, I believe)used at Monthlery that October in 1-hour speed trials with Ken Wharton covering 102 miles in standard trim and John Gott 112 miles in streamlined, Le Mans trim (this, so it is said, despite a puncture!).
The very first Production car is 10106, laid down much later although leaving Production before MaBeL, I think. It is a LHD roadster, which I believe has recently surfaced in America and is being restored by Clifford Archer.
MaBeL wasn't road-registered until February 1956 in time for Pat Moss/Anne Wisdom to make the very first competitive Works entry for an MGA.
All my best of knowledge and belief. Excuse nit-picking!
Steve Dixon
Steve Dixon

This thread was discussed between 16/09/2005 and 06/10/2005

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