Solved NIC#515 - MG TC Special of Lex Davison

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nicanary

January 07, 2016, 06:50:04 AM Last Edit: March 15, 2016, 03:52:17 PM by nicanary
What is this car, and who was the driver?
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nicanary

#1
February 22, 2016, 05:13:00 AM
Experts?
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nicanary

#2
March 15, 2016, 05:58:01 AM
Pros with less than 401 points?
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Allan L

#3
March 15, 2016, 02:33:02 PM
I really have no idea, but is it based on an MG TC?
Doesn't look like a British location but if the above guess is right probably not continental Europe either.
Could it be in Australia?
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galrot

#4
March 15, 2016, 02:42:18 PM
From the Nordic?

nicanary

#5
March 15, 2016, 02:46:08 PM
Not from a Nordic country.

Good detective work by Allan Lupton - it is based on an MG TC and is pictured in Australia. Who built and raced it?
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sixtee5cuda

#6
March 15, 2016, 03:47:52 PM
Mum's Racer from Lex Davison

nicanary

#7
March 15, 2016, 03:51:10 PM
Quote from: sixtee5cuda on March 15, 2016, 03:47:52 PM
Mum's Racer from Lex Davison

Indeed - I think it was his first racing car. The point is yours - sorry Allan, but I took the approach that there must have been bucketloads of MG TC specials in Australia at that time, and a lock didn't seem appropriate.
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Allan L

#8
March 15, 2016, 07:01:38 PM
That's fine - I knew nothing and was trying to make sense of the front axle arrangements and the right-hand carb bulge in the otherwise low bonnet. That bulge is so large, perhaps there was a belt-driven supercharger not just a couple of carbys (as they say there!).
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Carnut

#9
March 16, 2016, 04:43:50 AM
AKA my NEH 4589....
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Allan L

#10
March 16, 2016, 05:42:29 AM
Looked better with wings and lights and without that hump which I thought was for a supercharger - I'm still of that view, now we've seen how it looked when it didn't need the hump.
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nicanary

#11
March 16, 2016, 06:30:42 AM
That is indeed a supercharger. I'm not sure whether the car was fitted with this at a later date, or whether it was an early version and was deleted later on.

AP's search facility continues to baffle - there were too many MG puzzles to check, but posting "davison" does not reveal carnut's puzzle.
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Carnut

#12
March 16, 2016, 06:32:19 AM
Quote from: nicanary on March 16, 2016, 06:30:42 AM
That is indeed a supercharger. I'm not sure whether the car was fitted with this at a later date, or whether it was an early version and was deleted later on.

AP's search facility continues to baffle - there were too many MG puzzles to check, but posting "davison" does not reveal carnut's puzzle.

That's because I hadn't posted it yet!  It was still a couple of weeks away...
I've already changed it for a different car of course now.
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nicanary

#13
March 16, 2016, 06:55:36 AM
Doh! ;D
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Carnut

#14
March 16, 2016, 07:27:52 AM
Quote from: nicanary on March 16, 2016, 06:55:36 AM
Doh! ;D

That's exactly what I thought when I failed to recognise it and gain the point!
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