MGTA FUB 870

[John Marks]

After reading a wonderful article in our local Tunbridge Wells (England) news paper, it occurred to me that someone out there in the group might have the answer. It lovingly relates the story of an elderly gentleman's restoration of a 1937 MG TA registration FUB 870, which he purchased for 50.00 in 1949. It even tells how Mr.Connolly dyed him a 1 off hide in the original red leather which they had not produced since 1937, and told Gordon that he wouldn't dream of charging him for it!! All Gordon Wick's efforts to trace the car which he had to sell in 1957 when he got married, for the princely sum of 450.00, have failed. As the Driver and Vehicle licensing Authority have no record of the car being registered in the UK, we think it was probably exported, but where to[b]?[/b] [b]If anyone out there has any clues it would be wonderful to make an old man happy and a new owner to learn the history of his car![/b] Lots of our MG customers from overseas visit England to trace the history of their cars, so one of you could just be lucky. [b][i]Monica and John Marks[/i][/b]

[Roger Muir]

-------------------- Begin Forwarded Message -------------------- From: "John Marks", INTERNET:instruments@vintagerestorations.com To: "TABC Chat Line", INTERNET:mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com Date: Fri, Jan 26, 2001 9:49:17 am RE: [mg-tabc] MGTA FUB 870 After reading a wonderful article in our local Tunbridge Wells (England) news paper, it occurred to me that someone out there in the group might have the answer. It lovingly relates the story of an elderly gentleman's restoration of a 1937 MG TA registration FUB 870, which he purchased for 50.00 in 1949. It even tells how Mr.Connolly dyed him a 1 off hide in the original red leather which they had not produced since 1937, and told Gordon that he wouldn't dream of charging him for it!! All Gordon Wick's efforts to trace the car which he had to sell in 1957 when he got married, for the princely sum of 450.00, have failed. As the Driver and Vehicle licensing Authority have no record of the car being registered in the UK, we think it was probably exported, but where to? If anyone out there has any clues it would be wonderful to make an old man happy and a new owner to learn the history of his car! Lots of our MG customers from overseas visit England to trace the history of their cars, so one of you could just be lucky. Monica and John Marks ----------------------- Internet Header -------------------------------- Sender: sentto-1417284-3834-980502563-rogermuir=compuserve.com@returns.onelist.com Received: from fg.egroups.com (fg.egroups.com [208.50.144.70]) by spdmgaac.compuserve.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/SUN-1.9) with SMTP id EAA03125 for rogermuir@compuserve.com>; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 04:49:28 -0500 (EST) X-eGroups-Return: sentto-1417284-3834-980502563-rogermuir=compuserve.com@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.53] by fg.egroups.com with NNFMP; 26 Jan 2001 09:49:24 -0000 X-Sender: instruments@vintagerestorations.com X-Apparently-To: mg-tabc@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_2_1); 26 Jan 2001 09:49:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 7206 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2001 09:49:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 26 Jan 2001 09:49:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lorraine.ipl.co.uk) (195.112.52.123) by mta1 with SMTP; 26 Jan 2001 09:49:21 -0000 Received: from jbnru (router02s09.ipl.co.uk [195.112.52.62]) by lorraine.ipl.co.uk (8.10.0/8.10.0.Beta12) with SMTP id f0Q9nIg27515 for mg-tabc@egroups.com>; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:49:19 GMT Message-ID: To: "TABC Chat Line" mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "John Marks" instruments@vintagerestorations.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com; contact mg-tabc-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: mg-tabc-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:51:11 -0000 Subject: [mg-tabc] MGTA FUB 870 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_002F_01C0877D.83B96140" -------------------- End Forwarded Message --------------------