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Solved NIC#701 - MG TB Monaco Special
« on: November 03, 2016, 07:22:41 AM »
What's this, based on what, and built by whom?
« Last Edit: February 05, 2017, 01:51:35 PM by nicanary »
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Re: NIC#701
« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2017, 05:49:19 AM »
Experts?
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Re: NIC#701
« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2017, 07:38:50 AM »
MG ?

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Re: NIC#701
« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2017, 07:59:03 AM »
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Re: NIC#701
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2017, 05:32:30 AM »
So easy for the Pros.
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Re: NIC#701
« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2017, 04:56:37 AM »
Based on an MG chassis made between 1932 and 1937 ?

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Re: NIC#701
« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2017, 05:50:38 AM »
Based on an MG chassis made between 1932 and 1937 ?

Not that early.
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Re: NIC#701
« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2017, 05:55:20 AM »

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Re: NIC#701
« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2017, 06:19:43 AM »

 Alvis

No. We already know it's an MG.
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Re: NIC#701
« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2017, 06:25:27 AM »
Based on a prewar MG chassis ?

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Re: NIC#701
« Reply #10 on: February 05, 2017, 07:28:09 AM »
Based on a prewar MG chassis ?

Yes.
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Re: NIC#701
« Reply #11 on: February 05, 2017, 07:44:10 AM »
TB-based ?

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Re: NIC#701
« Reply #12 on: February 05, 2017, 08:20:13 AM »
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Re: NIC#701
« Reply #13 on: February 05, 2017, 12:59:40 PM »
I don't usually do this but I'm looking for something else and have found that this is the Monaco MG built by the late Peter Monkhouse on a 1939 MG TB chassis.
That's what Chiltern Cars of Leighton Buzzard claimed in 1955 -  a few years later I fell out with one of their descriptions so who can tell?
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Re: NIC#701
« Reply #14 on: February 05, 2017, 01:50:53 PM »
I don't usually do this but I'm looking for something else and have found that this is the Monaco MG built by the late Peter Monkhouse on a 1939 MG TB chassis.
That's what Chiltern Cars of Leighton Buzzard claimed in 1955 -  a few years later I fell out with one of their descriptions so who can tell?


That's the right answer because that's where I obtained the puzzle photo. Built by Monkhouse's Monaco Engineering and still around today.
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