[Mg-t] [mg-tabc] Esoteric Minutiae

[Clive Sherriff]

I smile a lot (or am I gritting my teeth ?) about the question of originality.

Go to a premier vintage event and look at the cars.  Immaculate. Now go to the archives and look at what they were like new.

This is particularly evident with race cars.  Look at the immaculate Maseratis, Silver Arrows Mercedes and Auto Unions today for example.  Then do the photo search for then on the 1930s.  Pooly finished and dented bodies, occasionally even unpainted ( Merceded once had to strip the paint and masses of filler underneath to meet a weight limit at one race !

Years ago before TABC Bodies were readily available, I carefully measured up every original car that came through the workshop thinking to reproduce them.  

There were large differences in the dimensions of the body panels and woodwork.  I decided it was not worth the bother, and soon after Naylors started making bodies and I ducked out.

Even something as apparently simple as the late TA TB TC rear wings are not the same, the prewar ones are much different to the TC type in many ways.  Hard to see if you dont know the difference, and all that are available today are the late TC ones.  And this applies to many other parts.  

This does make a difference though even if you don't know it.   Most people even if they know nothing of MGs will, from a frontal line up of Late TA TB and TCs will select the TA and TBs as the nicer looking cars.  They will not be able to tell you why.  It's due to the cutaway of the front wings, greatly reduced on the TC to a) save money and b) supposedly to cut down rain spray.   The TA/TB were designed form Ascetic values, the TC from economic values.   Many ta/tb owners will have TC front and wings and not know it.

If you want to drive about in a tarted up concours trailer queen then do it and enjoy it, but most of these tarted up concours cars should have points deducted for non original finish.

Clive
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  From: 'Norman Verona' norman at frenchblat.com [mg-tabc] 
  To: mark.robinson250gt at btinternet.com ; 'Norman Golm' ; notify-dg-mg-tabc at yahoogroups.com 
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  Sent: Friday, March 04, 2016 1:15 PM
  Subject: RE: [mg-tabc] Digest Number 7547


    

  So, we should refer to TC's Forever. Isn't that all about getting the car as original as possible? Is this the answer to the argument? 


  Norman Verona

  La Foie, 49520, Noellet, France

  Tel: 0033 (0)2 41 92 73 44
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