Puzzle #634 - Solved! Panelcraft MGA TwinCam

[Otto Puzzell]

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Please, respond below and let us know the make and model designation of the car posted here.

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[SeaLion]

A Michelotti proposal for the MGB GT?

[Otto Puzzell]

MG yes; Michelotti no.

[Arthur Dent]

MG Midget concept based on the Mini?

[Allan L]

MGA Twincam (i.e. Dunlop) wheels, so perhaps an MGA by BMC's then-currant stylist, Farina - although it doesn't really look like Farina to me

[Arthur Dent]

This was the one I was thinking of ADO34. Mini (Mini sub frames and Cooper S engine) based MG Midget concept car. Styling by Pininfarina. Never made it to production. Is this perhaps an earlier attempt of the same thing?

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[max]

Definitely earlier and bigger.  The Twin Cam style wheels, dinky sidelights unique to the Austin A105 in the late 50s, and it looks as if the windscreen has been squeezed into the hatch end of a reversed A40 roof pressing.  What is that moulding doing running in to the strangely-shaped wheel arch?

[SeaLion]

I wonder if the car actually was to be a follow-up to the MG TF/TG?

[grobmotorix]

I think this is the 1960 MGA based Panelcraft-built TwinCam, designed by D.N. Stephenson :

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[Carnut]

This has been a puzzle before, in pre-historic times when dinosaurs still roamed the earth (prior to 2010 in other words..) but I'm taking the liberty of re-posting it to see if any of today's Rookies or Experts know it.

What is it, by whom and based on what - for 1 point?:

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[Carnut]

Experts?

[galrot]

It's the 1960 MGA Coupé made by Panelcraft F.L.M. to a design by D.N. Stephenson who wished to start his own design consultancy/coachbuilder. It's the only MGA Twin Cam that was sold as a bare chassis. Stephenson later wrote off the car in a drunk driving incident. The body was scrapped and the chassis was sold on, only to be lost in a fire during the '90s.

[Carnut]

It's the 1960 MGA Coupé made by Panelcraft F.L.M. to a design by D.N. Stephenson who wished to start his own design consultancy/coachbuilder. It's the only MGA Twin Cam that was sold as a bare chassis. Stephenson later wrote off the car in a drunk driving incident. The body was scrapped and the chassis was sold on, only to be lost in a fire during the '90s.

Exactly.  Sad story that the body no longer exists.
This is, as I mentioned, a repost so I've merged it with the original; Otto's picture had gone AWOL so I've taken the liberty of adding one; I don't know if it was the original or not though.

[galrot]

More pictures.

[grobmotorix]

 

[Johno]

The designer, the coachbuilder and the chassis source please for one point.

[kitaharo]

looks from UK
is it Rover/MG/Austin related?

[Johno]

UK yes, and one of the three you suggest.

[Johno]

Experts?

[Shamrock 2]

Rover SD1 prototype

[Johno]

Sorry no

[D-type]

A disguised MG prototype?

[driggy.dragos]

Designer: N D Stephenson
Chassis: MGA Twin Cam
Year: 1960
one off, improved MGA Twin Cam with 2 fuel tanks (see 2 fuelcaps on each rear wing)

[Carnut]

Merged, although driggy-dragos never actually identified the Coachbuilder as you asked for...!

[fromwien]

MGA twin cam seen here on a test day at the Goodwood circuit in 1960 (Design: D.N. Stephenson, project and custom coachwork: FLM Panelcraft of London)
Colour picture attached