Re: Name that Car - Porridgehead Edition, MK II - Solved! Motto MG TD

Started by porridgehead, January 24, 2007, 09:54:11 PM

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porridgehead

January 24, 2007, 09:54:11 PM Last Edit: December 31, 2010, 07:31:48 AM by Otto Puzzell
Ok, here's a handsome little barchetta whose looks are well off the marque. BWWWWAAAHAHAAAAHAAA! Oh, I slay myself! Well off the marque! Get it? Off the Marque? Off the...Mark? BWaahahaaaha ha... heh.... hoo....  ha... heh...

ha...

*cough*

Right.

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pieter

#1
January 25, 2007, 03:13:43 AM
The potato cutter grille looks very 1953 Ferrari 212, but this car is far more elegant than anything I've been able to find to that description

Otto Puzzell

#2
January 25, 2007, 03:58:40 AM
Fascinating stuff.

Thanks!
You wanna be the man, you gotta Name That Car!

porridgehead

#3
January 25, 2007, 08:14:19 AM
The body and the underpinnings are from two different nations. The body's origin should be obvious, but the chassis... well, that's for you to determine.
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Arthur Dent

#4
January 25, 2007, 11:04:09 AM
Maybe based off a jaguar mkII?

porridgehead

#5
January 25, 2007, 08:15:06 PM
It could be, and that's an excellent guess, but it is not.

The region you're thinking about however...  ;)
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Tifosi

#6
January 25, 2007, 09:55:08 PM
MG?

Dan
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porridgehead

#7
January 25, 2007, 11:10:37 PM
Oooooh, you've got my attention.  :popcorn:
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GTO48

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January 26, 2007, 02:24:34 AM Last Edit: January 26, 2007, 02:27:11 AM by GTO48
So many obvious influences in my mind...
You say MG is in the mix... 
I know it's not either of these: Ferrari Barchetta circa 1952,  AC Ace...

Here's the ace and ferrari in the same photo.

Tifosi

#10
January 26, 2007, 03:20:17 AM
It's one of three Motto-bodied MG TD Sports Speciales built in 1953.

Dan
"Like most of life's problems, this one can be solved with bending..."

Bender B.Rodrigues

Otto Puzzell

#11
January 26, 2007, 03:22:46 AM
That Tifosi - he's knows his stuff!
You wanna be the man, you gotta Name That Car!

MG

#12
January 26, 2007, 06:21:12 AM
Damn. That is one SWEET lookin' TD! :drool:
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porridgehead

#13
January 26, 2007, 03:37:57 PM
I thought you might like it MG. It's hard to believe that it has any TD in there, but that's what it is.

There's more info and pics of the Motto here:
http://www.mgcars.org.uk/mgtd/mgtd_racing.htm

Excellent work Tifosi!
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MG

#14
January 26, 2007, 04:28:02 PM
That car is just drop dead gorgeous!   If the MGA had HALF of this style and panache, MG would have ruled the automotive world!  I woulda foregone my beloved XK120 for this car!    :o The car looks fabulous today. Musta been too far ahead of its time...... :(
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Tifosi

#15
January 27, 2007, 03:58:16 AM
Quote from: porridgehead on January 26, 2007, 03:37:57 PM
I thought you might like it MG. It's hard to believe that it has any TD in there, but that's what it is.

There's more info and pics of the Motto here:
http://www.mgcars.org.uk/mgtd/mgtd_racing.htm

Excellent work Tifosi!

Thanks.  The car really does look like a Ferrari in red.  This car was the subject of a restoratioon profile in the September issue of Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car.


It HAS to be the most beautiful MG I've ever seen...but the body would probably have been far too expensive to produce en masse.


Dan
"Like most of life's problems, this one can be solved with bending..."

Bender B.Rodrigues

Carnut

#16
January 04, 2011, 12:18:50 PM
Who built this on what base, when?  1 point for the correct answers.
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araknid

#17
January 04, 2011, 12:37:31 PM
A Moretti built on a Fiat 1100 chassis?
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Carnut

#18
January 04, 2011, 12:51:54 PM
Quote from: araknid on January 04, 2011, 12:37:31 PM
A Moretti built on a Fiat 1100 chassis?

Sorry, no - neither Moretti nor Fiat parts.
Welcome to AutoPuzzles though!
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Carnut

#19
January 17, 2011, 09:33:38 AM
Experts?
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Iluvatar

#20
January 19, 2011, 04:25:45 PM
Motto body?
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Wendax

#21
January 19, 2011, 04:34:56 PM
1952 MG TD Sports Speciale, body by Motto, 3 built

Iluvatar

#22
January 19, 2011, 04:39:01 PM
Dammit!
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Carnut

#23
January 20, 2011, 05:15:59 AM
Quote from: Wendax on January 19, 2011, 04:34:56 PM
1952 MG TD Sports Speciale, body by Motto, 3 built

That's the car.
Bad luck Iluvatar; maybe you deserve half a point but there isn't a facility to award you that, so Wendax gets the whole one!
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Allemano

#24
January 20, 2011, 05:29:57 AM
A pretty barchetta:
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