Another original type of oil cooler sometimes fitted to the MGA was the more rare "competition" oil cooler, 5 row, much wider, to be mounted immediately behind the grille, with pipe connections from the rear. Both standard and competition type coolers had "Morris Motors Radiator Branch" labels, stick-on for the standard type and screw-on acid-etched tag for the competition type. The first picture below shows a stick-on tag, which is incorrect. I hope to have a better picture soon. (Click for larger pictures).


At 02:58 PM 8/29/05 +0200, Bo Giersing wrote:
"See attached. The ‘Black Mamba’ is YM2 554, photo taken in Feb 1959 at the MG main dealers in Durban, where it was being prepared for endurance racing. I have the official race reports, which also included Bob Olthoff’s car – both cars had factory backing and were supplied with experimental 2 inch SU’s – Bob had to give his back after the first race. There are more photos on the Twin Cam groups website, also see the MGA special tuning manual AKD 819, page 25."