MG Quiz

Looks like you have stumped the MG Quiz faithful with your question David, something which has only happened once or twice.

The car in question is the 1935 MG Bellevue Special, built by Willkie Wilkinson on the MG NA that Bellevue Garages hired to various drivers to compete at Brooklands in 1935/36. Converted for the 1937 season into a light weight off set single seater using K Type axles, brakes, aluminium wheels and sleek pointed tail body. It has a 1491cc supercharged engine and races regularly in the UK.




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Here is a question about a much better known MG



I would like you to tell me two things about the car

1) The car was originally grey but the colour was changed to what? Please give the actual shade name
2) Some thing else, very visual, also changed. What was it originally?

Good luck

Old Number One was changed to Cherry Red when the factory rebuilt it (early 30's ?).

The registration became FC7900 in the 50's. It was originally FMO842 on 27th March 1925.

PS: i hadn't been able to find David's special anywhere!!!

Paul says:-

1) Cherry Red
2) The was originally registered FMO 842 on 27th March 1925, but later changed to the current registration number of FC 7900

Source of information

http://www.mgownersclub.co.uk/mg-old-number-one.html

Over to you Tim. :yesnod:

I tried hard to find it too, looked all the way through hundreds of cars on prewarcar.com (where the photo came from) even found a video of it racing and its not listed very well in the MG pre war racers either. It was a good question and i even had another lined up (if i won!!!)

prewarcar.com - I didn't know of that site - TYVM

It was on the bottom right of the photo that David used

Apologies for the delay!

1. Who was the first Private Owner to race at Le Mans and in what?

2. What was his follow-up car and what production model did its design lead towards?

Think i should let someone else have a go at this one, i have just read an article that gives all of the answers

Don't be shy Bryan, you have a question ready to post and let's face it ....you need the points, you're falling behind

Cor - a day away (total re-install on computer (nights) golf (days)) and what do I find - sarcasm - wowsers - I like :woohoo:

Mr Forgetful wrote: Cor - a day away (total re-install on computer (nights) golf (days)) and what do I find - sarcasm - wowsers - I like :woohoo:

I thought you had been missing for days now!!! thought you were going to come to the rescue with David's "easy" question and where were you ? no where to be seen even could not understand Paul's clues that had to be translated into Italian or was it French :evil: What is the answer to the latest question.

PQD44 wrote: Don't be shy Bryan, you have a question ready to post and let's face it ....you need the points, you're falling behind

I know i need the points, but my next question was the car in the last part of the current question (and i thought i was so clever in finding it too)