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     Geoff Wootton Grand Master Username: dounraey Post Number: 1456 Registered: 5-2012 |
Hi Folks I wondered if anyone can identify this car. It's a UK picture, so presumably a UK car. I've tried google and bing image searches but cannot locate one the same. Geoff  | ||
| Omar M. Shams Grand Master Username: omar Post Number: 896 Registered: 4-2009 |
Alvis? | ||
| Geoff Wootton Grand Master Username: dounraey Post Number: 1457 Registered: 5-2012 |
Hi Omar Thanks for your suggestion. It encouraged me to look again at the search engines and I finally came across it. The Alvis' were close but I am now virtually certain it is in fact a late 1930s MG WA. The rear split screen really helped to identify it. I'd asked, as I may soon be in a position to fully indulge my hobby of classic cars and the photo above really took my attention. I know we all have our different tastes in cars, but I thought the one above looked quite stunning. I guess they are going to really rare by now though, so finding one would be a problem. Geoff | ||
| Geoff Wootton Grand Master Username: dounraey Post Number: 1458 Registered: 5-2012 |
Actually, it's probably an MG SA. MG certainly built beautiful cars in those days. Beats the MG Metro. (For non-uk members, the Metro was a small volume produced economy car made by a conglomerate called British Leyland. They thought by putting an MG badge on it everyone would be fooled into thinking it was a much better car than it actually was. I think we all saw through their ruse. At least BMW have lived up to the RR reputation on re-badging their top end cars. | ||
| Omar M. Shams Grand Master Username: omar Post Number: 897 Registered: 4-2009 |
Dear Geoff, Is the car on the photo associated with your family in any way? | ||
| Geoff Wootton Grand Master Username: dounraey Post Number: 1459 Registered: 5-2012 |
Hello Omar No, it's a picture taken from Practical Classics magazine. This is a UK publication that I have delivered here in the US, each month. My theory is cars are like pop music - one's tastes are formed during teenage years and from within the culture you are living in. I grew up through the 60s and 70s so my tastes tend to be for UK bands (Stones, Zeppelin, Floyd etc) and UK cars. I'm sure this must be true for Americans and Australians. US car enthusiast meetings are very different from UK ones. There is a particular interest here around hot-rods and mod'ed cars that is not so prevalent in the UK. I know there are fans of UK cars here in America and fans of US cars in the UK. A friend of mine used to drive a 7 litre Trans-AM - fabulous car. But generally speaking, I find that people relate to the cars they have grown up with. So I have an interest in UK cars from the 60s and 70s, but this also extends back to the 30s. I'm hoping when the Boss finally decides to retire from work, she will stop dragging me around the US and put down some roots, which will allow me to properly indulge my passion for classic cars. Hence my interest in the car pictured above. What is your taste in cars Omar. I suspect it's quite cosmopolitan. Geoff | ||
| Omar M. Shams Grand Master Username: omar Post Number: 899 Registered: 4-2009 |
Dear Geoff, All my cars have Pink Floyd, Jimmy Hendrix, Led Zep and other greats of that ilk playing through the speakers. You are right about what you grew up with and the resultant taste that you evolve as you get older. We had cars from Japan, America and the UK dominating our roads. Jaguar E types, Rolls-Royces, Cadillacs Buicks, Chevys Land Rovers Austins, Morris etc. My collection of cars echoes all that past. We never had any Fords at all on our roads. There was an Isreali boycott for decades and that meant we couldn't have anything that was also made in that country. We grew up drinking Pepsi not Coke and never seeing a Ford or a Jeep. All very interesting now because now we have everything. For me, cars of the 60s and music of the 70s is the best combination. | ||
| Patrick Lockyer. Grand Master Username: pat_lockyer Post Number: 1041 Registered: 9-2004 |
Hi Geoff, the pic is indeed a a MG Sa 1937. Thought first it was the 37 Triumph Vitesse. The picture is taken at the National Motor Museum Beaulieu annual autojumble in the seventies. The Brabason Cafe is in the background to the right of the museum entrance. Can anyone guess the car that I restored years ago.   | ||
| Geoff Wootton Grand Master Username: dounraey Post Number: 1462 Registered: 5-2012 |
Hi Patrick That's a fine restoration. My first thoughts were Triumph or Wolesley. I then took to google but could not come up with anything for certain, although I would go for a late 1920s Wolesley. I figure late 20s, early 30s as the windscreen is vertical. Love the car. Geoff | ||
| Patrick Lockyer. Grand Master Username: pat_lockyer Post Number: 1042 Registered: 9-2004 |
Hi Geoff, you are close however it was a car made for nine months by Morris in 1934/5 called the Oxford Special Coupe. Rummer has it that it was built by the apprentices at the time!  Picture of the rewards of living nr Yeovilton. USA Air Force Reserve Command taken a few years ago, sixteen! wow time flies. Prototype car returned to the Uk after many years in Canada. Sadly not used as much as due to my wifes health.   | ||
| Patrick Lockyer. Grand Master Username: pat_lockyer Post Number: 1043 Registered: 9-2004 |
Sorry left out the Twenty in the Oxford [Twenty] Special Coupe. | ||
| Patrick Ryan Grand Master Username: patrick_r Post Number: 646 Registered: 4-2016 |
Geoff Great story of wanting whole heartedly a car that you fell in love with from a single image. I like the lines of the car as well. I do hope you can make this happen, I am sure you will be a happy man when you do. The only car I ever lusted after all my life was a Silver Shadow. Being born in the 60's it was in my face all the time, however I never really saw many in the flesh. But what I did see everyday that cemented my love of Rolls Royce and the Shadow was FAB1 from Thunderbirds. For me a Shadow & FAB1 go hand in hand. I still watch thunderbirds whenever I get the chance, and it always takes me back to my childhood every time, but of course new Blueray re issues of the series and HD TV (only B&W when I was a kid) high definition sound have given these a whole new lease on life. Out of interest FAB1 had a kneeling Spirit Of Ecstasy And was the only officially approved car by Rolls Royce that was not a Rolls Royce model. |
