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Solved - MJW #665 - Gast-MG Special 1954
« on: November 04, 2011, 09:51:51 PM »
Please identify this small sports racer.
Make, year and what it was based on will gain you one point.

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Re: MJW #665
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2011, 12:25:12 PM »
I'm sure an Expert knows this one..

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Re: MJW #665
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2011, 02:55:23 AM »
No response so up to the Pros now

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Re: MJW #665
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2011, 01:43:21 PM »
Front end mechanism and wheels look like MG TD to me. . .
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Re: MJW #665
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2011, 02:16:05 PM »
Front end mechanism and wheels look like MG TD to me. . .
Yes it is MG TD based

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Re: MJW #665
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2011, 06:21:56 PM »
Left-hooker so North American perhaps?
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Re: MJW #665
« Reply #6 on: November 16, 2011, 03:14:31 AM »
Left-hooker so North American perhaps?
Not North American.....

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Re: MJW #665
« Reply #7 on: November 28, 2011, 01:12:29 AM »
Was it called Gast MG? Just from my memory..

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Re: MJW #665
« Reply #8 on: November 28, 2011, 01:48:36 AM »
Was it called Gast MG? Just from my memory..
Yes, it's the Gast-MG.....
Can you provide a year for the point?
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Re: MJW #665
« Reply #9 on: November 28, 2011, 02:35:09 PM »
Source I have says 'early fifties', and the earliest race record I've found is 1953, so let it be 1953 :)

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Re: MJW #665
« Reply #10 on: November 28, 2011, 06:37:43 PM »
Source I have says 'early fifties', and the earliest race record I've found is 1953, so let it be 1953 :)
Good enough faksta.
I have it as 1954 but it was probably under construction in 1953.
It was built on an MG TD basis by D.B. Gast of the Netherlands.

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Re: Solved - MJW #665 - Gast-MG Special 1954
« Reply #11 on: November 29, 2011, 12:26:20 AM »
Thanks! Don't know for sure, but it was said to be raced in 1953 already. If that is the same car, of course, and not some other MG TD special by D.-B. Gast (who knows?).