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MG TD TF 1500 - 52 MG Kit

I'm sure you have all seen MG Kit Cars. Here's an outfit in Ontario that builds high end Kit Cars as well as a 52 MG TD for $30,000.00 Canadian. Article is in The Toront Star newspaper Wheels section, Saturday January 1st., 2005.
WWW.prototyperesearch.com

George
George Merson

Ugh!

Its still a VW!

There's a guy in Huntingdon (near me) that paid $24,000 for one. Took it to a car show and was placed with "other, special interest vehicles", lost interest and now can't give it away.

Gord Clark
Rockburn, Qué.
Gordon A. Clark

Gordon,
At least he was placed with "other, special interest vehicles", I went to a show last year and was parked next to one of these $%^&* things with a sign on winshield (and vanity plates) that said it was a 52MGTD!
That has happened to me a few times around here. I don't think the owner liked "my sign"...I have a little "Gumby" hugging my dash mirror with a carton caption comming out of his head that reads "I am the real deal damnit, made in the UK from metal in 1954!"
You do have to admit the sight of a fully loaded car-carrier of red TD's would get a double take from just about any of us though!
A fiberglass Auburn boatail would make an interesting winter car when the roads are snow covered & salted...wonder if they could build one on a hummmer frame?
Cheers,
David 55 TF1500 #7427
David Sheward

Some people do not recognise the REAL DEAL when they see it. few years ago I was driving a TC that had just won an AACA GRAND NATIONAL award. A long haired bearded yahoo in a beautiful Porsche Targa pulled along side and said" my wife has a Duchess just like that". My response was " and you are driving a Volkswagen also" He left in a huff.
Sandy Sanders
Hudson Florida
conrad sanders

Conrad,
You have given me my first out loud laugh of 2005. Been thru some sick dog probs but he is sleeping peacefully as I read you post and I actually laughed out loud. That was great! Happy New Year to all
G.J. Cenzer

Hehehe... calling it a "Porch Kit Car" also works.....
gordon.b.lawson '53TD

I get the old "hey, who built yer' kit car" all the time. Standard answer:
"Some guy named Cecil and a bunch of dudes called pannel-bashers in some lil' town called Abingdon"...normally followed by a "deer in the headlamps blank stare" and a "huh?" !
I've actually had a guy stand there and explain to his son how the VW motor was "in" the fuel tank (both sides of the bonnet open) and had no explanation for the
strange "lugage" in the "trunk" ...."hey dad...isn't this an engine?"
Vented Cheers,
David 55 TF1500 #7427
David Sheward

The Kits at Prototype Research are built from the ground up and all have Chevy Engines, hence the big bucks.

I quite often get asked, when stopped at a light, if mine is a Kit Car and mine is right hand drive.

George TD/C 5905
George Merson

Questions and almost answers

1. Is that one of them VW kit cars?
2. How fast will it go?
3. Bet you get real good milage ugh.
4. How do get into it

A. No, I started out with a corvette.
B. I am not sure you I think it runs
on sunshine.
C. I am not sure right now I am trying
to find a way to get out of it!
D About 8,000 ft er minute


I always try to park across from Daves TF
and let him feld the tuff ones.
Safety Fast

Tom
T.L. Manion

The comment you always get in the UK is, "Is it a Morgan?" I got that yesterday when filling up with petrol. That was before he said, "That's a pretty car". I'd right gone off him by then! Then he said, "Didn't Morgan take over MG?". Coolness from me exterior-wise but apoplexy inside!

The older folk are much better - "I used to have a TC", "I always wanted a TF, thought they were much better than the MGA" - these were two comments I got at the VSCC New Year's Day meeting at Adstock.

Regards

David
David Wardell

Once, when at a pit stop on a tour thru south Georgia on the way to a GOF in Florida, two local residents walked around Jim Holcombe's TC, looking carefully.
Finally, Jim came back to the car. One of the locals asked him: "Hey, what kind of car is this UNDO"
Don Harmer

Don, I love it! LOL
I've been ask that one also, answer depends what side of car your on :
"Right Side"
"Left Side"
The older folks, "had one" ...and the young folks, "wow, what is that?" well outway the ignorant! (Just in case I didn't make that clear!)
Best yet, by far, was comming out of Lowes and finding an elderly lady sitting in my TF...we go for at least 1 yearly trip around the lake now....the smile on her face worth a thousand "kit-car insults"!
Cheers,
David 55 TF1500 #7427
David Sheward


It's probably been a few years since T-cars have been used to pick up girls! Nice to see they still work! ;^)

I better not tell the wife!

Evan Ford - TD 27621

That's interesting... I have noticed a "gleam" in a number of "older" ladies eye's as well when they look at the TD... hmmmmmm
gordon lawson

Don;
It was Jim's car that I was referring too in the earlier post re; replicars.. I had just changed all the bearings in the transmission for Jim at that time.
Sandy Sanders
conrad sanders

OK, I've thought about it and thought about it and I don't 'get' "Hey, what kind of car is this UNDO".

John
John Redman

Help John, please somebody.

He must have disc wheels!!

Gord Clark
Rockburn, Qué.
Gordon A. Clark

John,
Look at the Knockoffs on wire wheel T-cars.
Don
Don Harmer

Duh! Thanks.
John
John Redman

Not quite there yet (52 TD), built up to a painted frame (POR 15), rebuilt the differential, and have the brakes on but no lines yet. Also replaced the universal joints in the driveshaft. Tranny is next.

My story is about my 79 Spitfire, so I think I can put it here. 25 and ups (Gen Y? to boomers) love it, and ask about it (no decals or labels to ID it either) Its the younger folk who worry me. I pulled up to a Wendy's drive-thru with my then 6 year old. The girl at he desk looked twice, had to ben down to see us, and asked it it was the Stuart Little car.

My gut reaction was to want to buy a 69 FuryIII, but thats just ***** envy.

THe no labels on the Spit is fun. I got one parking ticket and the only identifier he had was "Red Triumph convertible"
Richard

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