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Solved - NEH 4793: MG Gnat built by Wally Hall - 1968
« on: July 27, 2016, 07:21:51 AM »
What's this, built by whom, when - for 1 point?:

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Re: NEH 4793
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2016, 08:48:06 AM »
Link to "Mini" Van Den Plas? but without the booth ?!

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Re: NEH 4793
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2016, 09:07:27 AM »
Link to "Mini" Van Den Plas? but without the booth ?!

No, you're not on the right track there..
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Re: NEH 4793
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2016, 09:11:11 AM »
Riley ? Without booth..... Grill looks so familiar but I belief a Riley grill to be bigger then what is on this "thing"......

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Re: NEH 4793
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2016, 11:15:32 AM »
Riley ? Without booth..... Grill looks so familiar but I belief a Riley grill to be bigger then what is on this "thing"......

Not a Riley..
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Re: NEH 4793
« Reply #5 on: August 04, 2016, 11:10:22 AM »
The grill looked familiar, that gave it away in the end, it's a Mini MG I found attached picture first.
So I's called de MG Gnat. It's a  Cooper 'S' shell with a grille of an MG 1100 and remodeled it to the width of a Riley 'Elf'.It was made in the MG factory in Abingdon with bought or cadged parts from them and the BMC Competitions Department. The historical cars of MG, were saloons called 'Magna' and 'Magnette'. Both were combined to make 'Gnat'.

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Re: Solved - NEH 4793: MG Gnat
« Reply #6 on: August 04, 2016, 11:20:43 AM »
Clearly you've found the right car!
The question remains though, who built it and when?
It wasn't an official MG car even though it was built at Abingdon.
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Re: Solved - NEH 4793: MG Gnat
« Reply #7 on: August 16, 2016, 08:42:19 AM »
The car was build in 1967 /1968 by the late Wally Hall

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Re: Solved - NEH 4793: MG Gnat
« Reply #8 on: August 16, 2016, 11:14:43 AM »
The car was build in 1967 /1968 by the late Wally Hall

Indeed.
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