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MGA DELUXE from the Production List - TC-109-104429

GHD2/104429 -- 151ABL


GHD2/104429 - 151ABL - 1961 MGA 1600 MK-II Deluxe Coupe.
Works Rally Car with 115BHP engine and 15 gallon tank.
The boot is a little curved to fit the larger fuel tank. Owner is John Halfpenny

Addendum March 2013:
On 3/21/2013, Steve Sanders in Stourbridge, West Midlands, UK wrote:
"A friend of mine puchased this car around 1966/67 from a garage on the Bromford Lane in Birmingham for very little money. He only had it for a few weeks when on a winters night on the way to a club film evening at Mallory Park, he rolled it and I never saw it again"! -- Regards Steve


Obviously the car still survives today.

Addendum January 12, 2020:
Scratch the comment above, as it turned out to be in error.
At 12:13 PM 1/12/2020, Larry Gumbley wrote:
"I have just read a comment written in 2013 by Steve Sanders about the above car. He is basically right but has mixed up two cars. I am the friend Steve mentions, and I did buy 151ABL from Bromford Bridge Garage for about £400. However I did not roll it, that was an earlier 1500, I can't remember the reg. I sold it to Johnny Sandbach of Junilee garage in Erdington and he turned it into a convertible.
I kept 151ABL for 5 years. It was without doubt the best, prettiest and most exciting car I have owned. It would do 100 mph in third and easily top 120. It also out accelerated my friends Twin Cam (and an E Type up to 75)! It was remarkably economical, returning 33 to the gallon round town and 40 on a run. I put this down to the engine which was very heavily modified, and which had a camshaft which officially did not exist!
The gearbox was a close ratio and the case was a special heavy sand casting, not the usual die cast. Unfortunately both the engine and gearbox were stolen from my workshop while I had the body off to do some welding. I would love to know it's whereabouts".
Yours. Larry Gumbley - Larry.gumbley@ blueyonder.co.uk

Addendum December 5, 2016:
Known Rally History
Date 20-25 Jan 1962 7-11 May 1962 8-02 Sept 1962
Event Monte Carlo Rally Tulip Rally / Tulpen Rallye Liege-Sofia-Liege
Rally # 314 11 49
CC 1622    
Car   MG A Mk 2  
Driver Donald & Erle (not Eric) Morley Rauno Aaltonen & S. Gunnar Palm (SF/S) John Gott & Bill Shepard
Results 1st Rally. Result 1st in 2 litre class & second overall in the GT category, 28th. overall. 1st in class and 15th. overall. Final outing, it failed to finish after twice puncturing its fuel tank.

This article from "Enjoying MG" March 1989: (click for 2.3-MB PDF document)

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