MG Quiz

AaaaaaaaaaaaH!!!!!!!!! But Bryan can find a photograph of that black TF the police used and i know the person it belongs to, just got to find it.

Mr Forgetful That's pure genius - Well done Mr Forgetful.

Your answer is an order of magnitude better than the answer I had ready to post. :yesnod:

The relay race continues, back you Ted

??? The TF made in to a police car by MG Beijing was not black, it was white.

PQD44 wrote: Mr Forgetful That's pure genius - Well done Mr Forgetful.

Your answer is an order of magnitude better than the answer I had ready to post. :yesnod:

The relay race continues, back you Ted

Four letter word beginning with S

I have no ready quiz question available - I am in the middle of research - BRYAN - where are you - never mind the picture of the black poilice car - that's racist and inflamatory and in any case if it's the chinese TF it's white

I believe the person's name was Foo Young :woohoo:

No, no, it was the 1947 one i was trying to find :bang: :slapme: :bang:






It is, or was owned by Julian White a british motoring journalist.

But, but, but we already had an original one in the picture selection. That was not just any old one you known, that was an original one from "ploice flies - so sorry, Polish Flies - No, no no - Police Files. :yesnod:

Could you please concentrate your ginourmouse interlect - hmm intellect on setting a question whilst I try to construct an algebraic question to fit an MG answer - I am having problems with this

Just while Mr Forgetful plots a devilishly difficult question and at his request, here is a question for you to ponder in the meanwhile;

What's the Car and the alleged MG link story?

PQD44 wrote: Just while Mr Forgetful plots a devilishly difficult question and at his request, here is a question for you to ponder in the meanwhile;

What's the Car and the alleged MG link story?

:slapme: :bang:

The influence for the 1964 Pinninfarina MG (EX234) MG Spider.

Good answer Bryan .........................however incorrect, better luck next time.

I ask again;

What's the Car and the alleged MG link story?

I believe that is the Renault Caravelle and that Renault took umbrage at Don Hayter and the design team for their plagiary of the headlight design as used on the MGB released a year or so after the Renault. MG denied this but it was true that the MG design team had seen the Renault at a motorshow some time earlier and had been inspired by the headlamp design.

MartinW wrote: I believe that is the Renault Caravelle and that Renault took umbrage at Don Hayter and the design team for their plagiary of the headlight design as used on the MGB released a year or so after the Renault. MG denied this but it was true that the MG design team had seen the Renault at a motorshow some time earlier and had been inspired by the headlamp design.

What he says (sorry - what Martin said) except it is a Renault Floride - Pietro Frua designed the Renault Floride as he was working for Ghia the design studio responsible for it. (Ghia had bought out his manufacturing company).
Frua, who began his career at Fiat as a junior designer, became Fiat's general manager within ten years. After the Second World War, he opened his own design studio where he executed a series of one-off designs. In 1952, Frua entered into a contract to work exclusively for Ghia. That relationship lasted until about 1962 when it ended acrimoniously over a lawsuit related to the Caravelle design (which was a variation of the Caravelle design)

R-1092 (Floride/Caravalle) was designed by Ghia and after a very complicated development, the prototype was built by Frua according to Ghia's design

Pietro Frua was understandably upset. He had devoted a considerable amount of time building the two prototypes and now no one would talk to him or pay him for his work. He decided to try and sell the design to another automobile manufacturer by showing the design at the Geneva Automobile Show, in which the manufacturers presented their new concept car as well as their latest offerings. Frua called the car the Dauphine GT.

Prior to the opening of the show to the general public, Pierre Dryfus (MD Renault) walked by the Frua display and saw the prototype Renault convertible under a tarp. When challenged by Dryfus, Frua responded that since he had not heard from either Renault or Ghia, he was going to present the convertible as a Frua design. Luigi Segre, (Ghia) who was also present at the show, was immediately put under tremendous pressure by Dryfus to fix the problem.

Apparently he did so. In October, following the Geneva show the prototypes were shown for the first time at the Paris automotive event, but on the Renault stand. At that point they carried the Floride name and were offered for sale by Renault. Over 8,000 orders were taken for the sports car from the European side before production began in 1959.

During the 1960s Pietro Frua was among the most prominent car designers in Italy. In 1963, at the age of 50 and at the peak of his career, Frua designed for Glas, Germany’s smallest car-maker, the GT Coupé and Cabriolet. These were built until 1968 as the BMW GT, after BMW had bought Glas. A MG LINK?? although earlier.

So - that's the history - the MG link I HAVE NO IDEA

Doh! Floride, not Caravelle. Thanks Mr. Forgetful for supplying far more of the Renault link.