MG Quiz

1. What Car?
2.What is the MG Connection?

:slapme: Not another MG SV question,



still I suppose it's better than an




:whistle:

The answer to part 2 is:
It has MG written on its nose!

:lol: Nice try Tsleight, however, I get the feeling you are just toying with us.

BTW congratulations on a nice pair of questions alanrt54 :yesnod:

The car is the MG Liquid Suspension Indy car, the link being that it had hydralastic suspension like MGs. It raced in the 60's...

The famous MG Liquid Suspension Indy Car has recently finished a complete restoration. The car competed in the Indianapolis 500 from 1964 to 1969. It was developed by the head of the BMC in San Francisco, Kjell Qvale and famous racecar engineer Joe Huffaker. It was (and still is) superbly crafted with a chrome molybdenum space frame and was powered from the rear by the famous Offenhauser racing engine. The engine from 1964 to 1966 was a 255 cu.In. Offenhauser which was normally aspirated. From 1967 to 1969 it ran a 168 cu.In.
Offenhauser that was Air Research Turbocharged to produce a wild 1000 HP with unrestricted boost. It was test driven by the famous A.J. Foyt who set a track record at Pheonix. It was raced by great drivers like Walt Hansgen, Bob Vieth, Jerry Grant and Wally Dallenbach( the head crew chief of the Indycar Cart racing series). It is named the "Liquid Suspension Special" because it used the same hydrolastic shock absorbers as used in the MG sedans.

Well done. A little more information can be found at http://www.ni500cc.com/chutes/win04.html and at http://walterzoomiesworld.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/liquid-suspension-joe-huffakers-2-cars.html

I've also found a couple more pictures as more than one was built:








Well thats it I can't win again as I've run out of possible questions

Next question:

What links a VERY early Jag E-Type to MG?

I'll give more clues as required...

Clue 1: E-type was launched at Geneva show in 1961.

Clue 1: E-type was launched at Geneva show in 1961.

Tsleight wrote: Next question:

What links a VERY early Jag E-Type to MG?

I'll give more clues as required...

Clue 1: E-type was launched at Geneva show in 1961.

Clue 2: An E-Type was a prize in a competition.

Marcus Girvan (Initials MG) a twenty year old lad from Southport won a Daily Mail competition in 1961. The prize... a brand new 150mph E-Type Jaguar.



Although his initials were MG the was another MG link. Marcus sold the car after a year, for the full story click here , then bought another ‘more affordable’ classic - an MGA.

Do take a look at the link it's an interesting read. Thanks for that one Tsleight, I really enjoyed that MG link :yesnod:

Correct. All yours. I found it when looking for another answer. I subsequently noticed it in one of this months car magazines when i was at a service station on Tuesday!

The new MG Quiz question;

This is a small taxing question. I want to know the new MG that would have had one of the first new style ones?

We have them on it today and since 1952. They appeared, were there for four years then disappeared. The coloured year stripe was also diagonal at that time.

Mr Forgetful would have liked this, hopefully he wouldn't have picked holes in it. I will give clues if needed. Good Luck.