MG T-Bar Quiz

mandymay1971 wrote: In what year were and to which model were Chrome over rider 's replaced with Sabrinas, and for which foreign car market also who were they named after

The US market MGB received the massive rubber over-riders in 1974 in am intermediate step to receiving the rubber bumpers proper in the 1975 model year and so were referred as 74 and a half models. The Sabrina reference was to the actress of that name whose full name escapes me but she obviously was rather well endowed in much the same way the MGB was now well endowed with the massive rubber over-riders on the chrome bumper.

A quick check revealed this as Norma Ann Sykes aka Sabrina: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina_(actress)

We have a winner that must have been to easy well done now its your chance to get us at it by setting the next quiz

Thanks, Mandymay, too much useless knowledge acquired after >10yrs trawling MG forums.

We refer to it as the Frog-eyed, but what do the Americans call the pre-cursor to the vertically-challenged MG og the 1960s?

Bugeye?

Well done, John. So now your turn.

Ok....
A senior member of the Royal family had an MG in the 60's:
Who was it and which model of MG?

Hopefully before Martin posts the answer, the Royal MG was





The car was an MGC GT.

The car was purchased by the Queen as a 21st birthday gift for Prince Charles in 1969.

The car was then given to Prince William in 1999 as a 17th birthday present.

PQD44 wrote: Hopefully before Martin posts the answer, the Royal MG was

I was still lost researching more about Sabrina... :drive:

:bust:

Assuming my answer was correct (I'm sure Martin would have put us right by now if it wasn't, even taking into account Sabrina's shapely over riders) here is the new question.

In the original MG Quiz, following a question set by Tsleight, we discovered that the very first MG to be owned by a member of a royal family was a 14/28 Tourer, purchased in 1926 by the 19 year old, Alfonso Pío Cristino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Eugenio Fernando Antonio Venancio Borbón y Battenberg, who was better known as Alfonso, Prince of Asturias.



What I want you to tell me is how is Alfonso and Prince William related to Queen Victoria?

Needless for me to say, but yep it was Prince Chazza who got himself an MGC off of mummy.

Alfonso was a matrilineal great-grandson of Queen Victoria

Prince William is the 4th great-grandson of Queen Victoria

HOWEVER Paul I am struggling to find an MG link unless Queen Victoria had a very, very, very experimental early pre-production model of an MG :woohoo: