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Re: Djetset #314
« Reply #25 on: January 07, 2012, 05:18:15 PM »
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Re: Djetset #314
« Reply #26 on: January 18, 2012, 06:53:20 AM »
Oophs, this one really slipped through the net, so thanks for the reminder D-type.  This car is not based on an MGA, as the base pre-dates that model.  However, it does use the engine of an earlier MG.
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Re: Djetset #314
« Reply #27 on: January 18, 2012, 07:47:45 AM »
MG Special built by G. Reid, Fleet, Hants. 1956?
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Re: Djetset #314
« Reply #28 on: January 18, 2012, 07:52:55 AM »
Sorry, but it's not the Reid MG Special.
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Re: Djetset #314
« Reply #29 on: March 05, 2012, 08:50:30 AM »
JWF Italia?
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Re: Djetset #314
« Reply #30 on: March 09, 2012, 11:22:19 AM »
MG TD-based?
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Re: Djetset #314
« Reply #31 on: March 26, 2012, 05:47:11 AM »
Sorry for the slow reply Woodinsight.  I know it's based a pre-1954 MG, but don't know the model for certain, although I suspect it is a TD.

It is not a JWK Italia.
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Re: Djetset #314
« Reply #32 on: April 30, 2012, 08:08:38 PM »
Searching for the answer to another puzzle I seem to have stumbled upon the solution to this one!

This appears to the the Parmenter-Buckler-MG special c.1955. A special one-off chassis built by Buckler for a Mr. Parmenter to accept a highly-tuned MG engine, with bodywork built by one of the 'in house' coachbuilders at Buckler, Dawes and Offord (I was previously only aware of Taylors making the in-house bodies for Buckler).
 Apparently Mr.Parmenter was taken ill before the car was completed and it may never have progressed much further than what is shown in this photograph.
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Re: Djetset #314
« Reply #33 on: May 03, 2012, 08:51:05 AM »
Bump  ;)
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Re: Djetset #314
« Reply #34 on: May 10, 2012, 12:14:25 PM »
At last!  Very well done Barrett, a perfect answer.  As this one has been waiting to be solved for over two years, I will reward you with two points for your information (we clearly have the same source!  ;).
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