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Solved: MG Magnette ZA ahter an air drop
« on: October 27, 2016, 06:57:14 AM »
This photo has been posted on another well-known website, and has so far received mainly ludicrous answers. It's a car which was dropped from a great height to see what would happen. I keep thinking it's a GRP special, but the bodywork has not shattered enough and it could be alloy. Someone has pointed out that there seems to be a semaphore indicator in the centre pillar.

Any ideas?
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Re: Solved: MG Magnette ZA ahter an air drop
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2016, 03:44:44 AM »
I think I could have told them what would happen before they went to the effort...
It doesn't look like glass fibre, which doesn't bend like the roof has.
Seems to be a 4-door car but no ideas yet..
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Re: Solved: MG Magnette ZA ahter an air drop
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2016, 04:26:14 AM »
Surely no-one would do that to a Bristol?!
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Re: Solved: MG Magnette ZA ahter an air drop
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2016, 04:29:52 AM »
Bristol was my first thought, too, but the distance between front wheel arch and A-pillar seems to be too short for a Bristol.
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Re: Solved: MG Magnette ZA ahter an air drop
« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2016, 04:43:19 AM »
I found another picture where it is said to have been a Wolseley:
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Re: Solved: MG Magnette ZA ahter an air drop
« Reply #5 on: October 28, 2016, 05:18:08 AM »
It could be a 4/44, because so much seems right. Even the semaphore indicator in the B-pillar.  But why has the rear bumper got an indentation for a number plate, when the 4/44 had it mounted on the boot lid?
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Re: Solved: MG Magnette ZA ahter an air drop
« Reply #6 on: October 28, 2016, 06:15:55 AM »
Because it could be an MG Magnette?
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Re: Solved: MG Magnette ZA ahter an air drop
« Reply #7 on: October 28, 2016, 07:09:45 AM »
What I called a ludicrous suggestion on that other site is in fact correct! Shows how much I know......

I suppose the force of the crash pushed the boot section upwards to make it look to the casual eye like a more squared-off shape.
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Re: Solved: MG Magnette ZA ahter an air drop
« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2016, 08:02:52 AM »
Quote from: nicanary on October 28, 2016, 07:09:45 AM
What I called a ludicrous suggestion on that other site is in fact correct! Shows how much I know......

I suppose the force of the crash pushed the boot section upwards to make it look to the casual eye like a more squared-off shape.

Yes, the rear lights and that chrome strip behind the front wheels would bear it out.
It's a Magnette ZA.
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Re: Solved: MG Magnette ZA ahter an air drop
« Reply #9 on: October 28, 2016, 09:51:38 AM »
As I said in another place, the bit of rear bodywork overhanging the n/s rear wheel looks to me like GRP rather than steel. That may be repair bodgery rather than original, of course as I suppose they wouldn't have used a pristine car for the occasion.
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