> Hi Jack, et. al.,
>
> My Kiwi friend who is the head of the local MG car club was able to dig
> this information up for you. Very very interesting. I have to imagine
> those chome bumper V8 MGBs conertibles should be worth an absolute
> fortune... even the Rover ones they made a few years back for the Tokyo
> market are worth $50K plus, in my opinion these are worth much more because
> they look original, whereas the Rover versions were somewhat modified in
> appearance.
>
> Best,
>
> Alan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> Hello Sue & Ernie & Colin
>
> Thank you for the interest.
>
> It was some years ago in 1988 that we produced No1 from a BMH heritage
> body shell and went on to complete 9 cars before the NZMC sold out to
> Shorters Jaguar Rover consortium. We had an order for 10 cars initially with
> the option for another 10.
>
> If you look on the UK MG Car Club V8 register website there is an
> article featuring V8 No 7 owned by Charles Clark.
>
> It came as a surprise to me that after Charles was insulted by a NZ Car
> magazine reporter describing his car as a replica, that Charles made contact
> with UK V8 register and obtained their acknowledgement that the 3 NZ V8 MGB
> roadsters we built are in fact the only Dealer sanctioned V8 MGB's in the
> world. As you know MG only built V8 BGT's. Quite a surprise, as I had not
> thought about that aspect. The five 4 cylinder cars were dealer sanctioned
> as well but not unique of course.
>
> There has been a few attempts to write the history of our NZ cars (2
> spring to mind, Dren Errington, Alan Dick) but nothing has concluded
> predominantly because I have had little time to prepare the information. I
> have retained all the records, many dozens of photos, have some sales
> brochures left and some of the special key rings are left.
>
> I have the intension to provide some web pages on the Cars in the future
> and had hoped to have this done before the 20th anniversary of when they
> were first advertised for sale in April 1989. It would be wonderful if we
> could get as many of the cars as possible together in one place during 2009.
>
> I have attached the NZ Car magazine articles for your perusal and a
> picture of 4 cars from the left No7 V8, No6 V8, No9 4 cylinder, and no1 4
> cylinder. No 9 is in Australia, No 1 in Paraparumu, No6 I have retained, and
> No7 is with Charles.
>
> There is an interesting twist to the story of how NZMC became involved and
> why, but I will leave that story for the Journalists to write up, hopefully
> before 2009.
>
> Regards Rod
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