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Title: Puzzle #954 - Solved! (?) Buchanan MG
Post by: Otto Puzzell on July 27, 2008, 03:58:00 AM
(http://www.autopuzzles.com/PP954.jpg)
Buchanan MG

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Title: Re: Puzzle #954
Post by: Otto Puzzell on August 27, 2008, 03:46:38 AM
Easy pickin's for the pros, I suspect.
Title: Re: Puzzle #954
Post by: Paul Jaray on August 28, 2008, 04:49:39 AM

Hi, this is a Buchanan body. The N.H. Buchanan Motor Co. Pty. Ltd from Australia made at least two fibreglass bodies using an MGA-engine and one on an MGA-chassis.
Title: Re: Puzzle #954
Post by: Allan L on August 28, 2008, 05:26:00 AM
Was it this one, I wonder???
Title: Re: Puzzle #954
Post by: Otto Puzzell on August 28, 2008, 06:28:38 AM
Buchanan, yes. MGA, no.
Title: Re: Puzzle #954
Post by: Paul Jaray on August 28, 2008, 06:40:32 AM
http://www.buchananmotorcompany.com/Buchanan%20MG.htm
http://www.rutgerbooy.nl/MGA_specials_page_3.htm
http://www.mgaguru.com/mgtech/variants/vt106.htm
...and here with me there is Mr Buchanan's son that is saing that I'm right...





...avoid the sun,avoid the sun,avoid the sun......
Title: Re: Puzzle #954
Post by: Otto Puzzell on August 28, 2008, 08:55:01 AM
And what did Mr. Buchanan name the picture?
Title: Re: Puzzle #954
Post by: Paul Jaray on August 28, 2008, 09:40:04 AM
...my father's creature?


or is it the "John Kinsella" Buchanan MG special built (on a  TF chassis  :-\) in1957 by John Kinsella in Linfield, NSW. Road registered NSW APR769. Owned by Mike Gehde, QLD?
Title: Re: Puzzle #954
Post by: Allan L on August 28, 2008, 11:26:57 AM
The MGA has its carburettors on the left; the TF has them on the right. The puzzle car has a bulge in the bonnet top on the right, so may be TF (or earlier) engined.
The crash car in the photo I posted has the MGA engine, rendered easily visible by the crash.
Title: Re: Puzzle #954
Post by: Otto Puzzell on August 28, 2008, 11:29:28 AM
Quote from: Paul Jaray on August 28, 2008, 09:40:04 AM
...my father's creature?


or is it the "John Kinsella" Buchanan MG special built (on a  TF chassis  :-\) in1957 by John Kinsella in Linfield, NSW. Road registered NSW APR769. Owned by Mike Gehde, QLD?


On the site you list above:

http://www.buchananmotorcompany.com/Buchanan%20MG.htm

The photo is flagged as a TF.
Title: Re: Puzzle #954 - Solved! (?) Buchanan MG
Post by: Paul Jaray on August 28, 2008, 01:25:13 PM
Yep, and the other two links do not seems so accurate like the official one, and also Allan L gave a big clue...you can remove the question mark now, it should be the TF based Kinsella Special.