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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2019 => Topic started by: nicanary on June 23, 2019, 06:37:08 AM
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This car may have featured on these pages in the past, but I can't find it! It's a nice easy one for the Rookies - what is it?
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Yes, this is Goldie Gardner's MG K3 Magnette (25 October 1937 on the Frankfurt Autobahn).
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Yes, this is Goldie Gardner's MG K3 Magnette (25 October 1937 on the Frankfurt Autobahn).
Yes that's exactly what it is. Well done - other MG record-breaking cars have featured here before, but this one slipped the net. One point to you.
I have seen an advert from the 1950s showing this car for sale fitted with a 2-seater body which looks like it could have come from an HRG Aerodynamic. I'll see if I can find it some time and post it here.
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I have seen an advert from the 1950s showing this car for sale fitted with a 2-seater body which looks like it could have come from an HRG Aerodynamic. I'll see if I can find it some time and post it here.
That'll be interesting as my understanding is that the George Eyston 1934/5 record-breaking K3 was the basis for the Railton-designed EX135 streamliner that we remember Goldie Gardner using. But perhaps I'm confusing the K3s and the one in this thread is not the ex-Eyston car.
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I've found it - it was in Dec 1950s Motor Sport with the well-known MG specialists Toulmin Motors. Here is the relevant part of the full-page ad. (This would have made an excellent AP puzzle - too late now!)
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Yes and the car they illustrate in the October issue is how I remember photos of the puzzle car looking, with twin outside exhausts and Brooklands cans rather than the stubs as above.
I do wish an outfit as well-connected as Toulmin hadn't called him "Goldie" as if it were a nickname. . .