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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2013 => Topic started by: SACO on May 26, 2013, 02:23:25 AM

Title: SAC#482: 1951 Cooper-MG
Post by: SACO on May 26, 2013, 02:23:25 AM

What car is this, and from when ? :)

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Post by: SACO on June 04, 2013, 02:11:25 AM

Experts ?

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Post by: nicanary on June 04, 2013, 05:13:50 AM

Ate those Cooper wheels ?

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Post by: Carnut on June 04, 2013, 05:45:33 AM

Quote from: nicanary on June 04, 2013, 05:13:50 AM

Ate those Cooper wheels ?

Who did?

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Post by: targhediferro on June 04, 2013, 06:50:14 AM

Front fenders and bonnet look like Ferrari 166 by touring...but nothing else.

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Post by: D-type on June 04, 2013, 08:08:39 AM

Tojeiro?

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Post by: nicanary on June 04, 2013, 09:13:48 AM

It's not LOY500 - is it JOY500, the Cooper-MG ? (I'm pretty sure it isn't - don't know why I'm typing this !)

Title: Re: SAC#482
Post by: nicanary on June 04, 2013, 10:35:19 AM

Ignore my last post, although I was getting closer.

It's a 1951 Cooper-MG, but not as we know it. It was built by an employee at University Motors in Coulsdon, Surrey named Victor Percy Drew from a chassis he bought direct from the Cooper Car Co. and into which he fitted an MG XPAG engine. The registration was MYH24 and Mr. Drew registered it as a "Tonnelier" which is French for cooper in order to be exempt from purchase tax or some such excise duty. As one observer has pointed out, the body was designed to look like a Ferrari 166 barchetta, and was also the work of Mr. Drew. (The modern "technician" in the modern garage couldn't do that quality of work, I bet. You can't just plug into a computor.)

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Post by: SACO on June 04, 2013, 12:36:37 PM

Yes , 1951 Cooper-MG ( MYH 314 )!
1 other point for you !

Title: Re: SAC#482: 1951 Cooper-MG
Post by: nicanary on June 01, 2016, 03:45:06 PM

I've found a period photo of this car.