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• A relic of a different time and just as enticing as it was back then, this 1959 MGA 1500 roadster is up for auction on Bring a Trailer. • The car has a 72-hp 1.5-liter inline-four and a four ...
The later MG prototype EX 182 was very close to the final production MGA and was the car actually raced at Le Mans in 1955. Three MGA prototypes were entered in the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans . Two of the cars finished the race placing 12th and 17th overall, proving the worth of the new car.
The all-new MG F went on sale in 1995, becoming the first mass-produced "real" MG sports car since the MGB ceased production in 1980. Following the May 2000 purchase of the MG and Rover marques by the Phoenix Consortium and the forming of the new MG Rover Group , the MG range was expanded in the summer of 2001 with the introduction of three ...
By the early 1960s, Hurst transmission shifters and other products had become legendary in auto racing, particularly in drag racing, and among custom car makers. Many automobile enthusiasts replaced basic factory floor and column-mounted gear shifts with custom Hurst floor shifters to obtain better control of gear selection, particularly for ...
While the Vulcan shifter was often advertised as standard equipment on the Haynes car, a common floor shift was also available for $200 less. [1] Norwalk made the Vulcan system available on their products, such as the Underslung Six, as an option. Approximately 25 of those cars were so equipped.
ADO34 was the name of a project active between 1960 and 1964 that aimed to develop a front-wheel drive Mini-based roadster as a possible new MG Midget or Austin-Healey Sprite. Following the launch of the MG Midget in 1961, it was considered as an MG Midget or Austin Healey Sprite replacement. [10] This Pininfarina project was cancelled in about ...
Available as an open two-seater or more luxurious Tickford drophead coupé, this is the rarest of the T-type cars, as production began just prior to Britain's entry into World War II. [citation needed] Only 379 TBs were made before the MG factory emptied its buildings and switched to making major aircraft components and modifying tanks. [4]
A preselector gearbox is a type of manual transmission mostly used on passenger cars and racing cars in the 1930s, in buses from 1940–1960 and in armoured vehicles from the 1930s to the 1970s. The defining characteristic of a preselector gearbox is that the gear shift lever allowed the driver to "pre-select" the next gear, usually with the ...