December 2016
I had a few
things to report.
MGC
owner
John
Craven
has been very
busy scanning
the web and
collecting information
on
MGCs around
Australia. John
responded to a
discussion
in
the MGC Report
in July last year regarding the number
of cars in Australia. He has compiled
an Australian MGC Register of 80
identified cars with about another 75
known cars but still to be fully identified. We’d like to build on that and
make a list of MGCs publically available in a similar way to the New Zealand MGC Register. Next year is the
50th Anniversary of the launch of the
MGC so what better time to make the
list public than the MG National Meeting 2017 in Adelaide.
Having a list of identified MGCs can
add to the security of the model.
Some years ago a register list of Torana XU1s was used to identify a
fraudulent copy. The new owner of
this freshly restored XU1 was not
happy having paid a lot of money for a
car that was not genuine so he involved the police.
John has also been reviewing the colours of MGCs and their relationship to
other marques in the BMC/BMLC
group. ‘Glasso White’ was a bit of a
mystery colour until the UK Register
people told us all police cars were
painted this special shade of white.
The other MGC project that John has
been working on is titled “Where Did
They Go?” He lists the numbers of
cars recorded in the Factory records
that were dispatched to the different
centres in the UK, the different States
in the USA and to various countries.
We wondered why 10 MGCs were
exported to Zambia and eight to the
Congo. 26 MGCs were dispatched to
the South American region including
the Bahamas and even one to Surinam, have you heard of that country?
In the Asia/Pacific region one car was
dispatched to Cambodia, four to Australia, 10 to Japan, 26 to New Zealand
and 17 to the Australian Territory of
Papua. Does anyone know why 17
MGCs went to Papua? Two are now
in Tassie and one in NSW and we’ve
discovered one that was personally
exported to Port Morseby.
Thanks for coming out chaps.
C ya soon
Ian
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