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Solved NIC#515 - MG TC Special of Lex Davison
« on: January 07, 2016, 06:50:04 AM »
What is this car, and who was the driver?
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Re: NIC#515
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2016, 05:13:00 AM »
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Re: NIC#515
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2016, 05:58:01 AM »
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Re: NIC#515
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2016, 02:33:02 PM »
I really have no idea, but is it based on an MG TC?
Doesn't look like a British location but if the above guess is right probably not continental Europe either.
Could it be in Australia?
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Re: NIC#515
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2016, 02:42:18 PM »
From the Nordic?
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Re: NIC#515
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2016, 02:46:08 PM »
Not from a Nordic country.

Good detective work by Allan Lupton - it is based on an MG TC and is pictured in Australia. Who built and raced it?
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Re: NIC#515
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2016, 03:47:52 PM »
Mum's Racer from Lex Davison
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Re: NIC#515
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2016, 03:51:10 PM »
Quote from: sixtee5cuda on March 15, 2016, 03:47:52 PM
Mum's Racer from Lex Davison

Indeed - I think it was his first racing car. The point is yours - sorry Allan, but I took the approach that there must have been bucketloads of MG TC specials in Australia at that time, and a lock didn't seem appropriate.
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Re: Solved NIC#515 - MG TC Special of Lex Davison
« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2016, 07:01:38 PM »
That's fine - I knew nothing and was trying to make sense of the front axle arrangements and the right-hand carb bulge in the otherwise low bonnet. That bulge is so large, perhaps there was a belt-driven supercharger not just a couple of carbys (as they say there!).
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Re: Solved NIC#515 - MG TC Special of Lex Davison
« Reply #9 on: March 16, 2016, 04:43:50 AM »
AKA my NEH 4589....
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Re: Solved NIC#515 - MG TC Special of Lex Davison
« Reply #10 on: March 16, 2016, 05:42:29 AM »
Looked better with wings and lights and without that hump which I thought was for a supercharger - I'm still of that view, now we've seen how it looked when it didn't need the hump.
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Re: Solved NIC#515 - MG TC Special of Lex Davison
« Reply #11 on: March 16, 2016, 06:30:42 AM »
That is indeed a supercharger. I'm not sure whether the car was fitted with this at a later date, or whether it was an early version and was deleted later on.

AP's search facility continues to baffle - there were too many MG puzzles to check, but posting "davison" does not reveal carnut's puzzle.
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Re: Solved NIC#515 - MG TC Special of Lex Davison
« Reply #12 on: March 16, 2016, 06:32:19 AM »
Quote from: nicanary on March 16, 2016, 06:30:42 AM
That is indeed a supercharger. I'm not sure whether the car was fitted with this at a later date, or whether it was an early version and was deleted later on.

AP's search facility continues to baffle - there were too many MG puzzles to check, but posting "davison" does not reveal carnut's puzzle.

That's because I hadn't posted it yet!  It was still a couple of weeks away...
I've already changed it for a different car of course now.
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Re: Solved NIC#515 - MG TC Special of Lex Davison
« Reply #13 on: March 16, 2016, 06:55:36 AM »
Doh! ;D
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Re: Solved NIC#515 - MG TC Special of Lex Davison
« Reply #14 on: March 16, 2016, 07:27:52 AM »
Quote from: nicanary on March 16, 2016, 06:55:36 AM
Doh! ;D

That's exactly what I thought when I failed to recognise it and gain the point!
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