Hi All,
When I saw this thread I said "I Know, I Know..." then I read further and
thought about the numbers and it turns out I didn't know anything. When I
saw the request for info. on EX182 I remembered the car I saw in Syd Beers
collection in England in '72 and was thinking of the land speed record car
that Steering Moss drove at bonaville to take the record in August, then the
engine was punched out just over 1500 cc's, and they took the record again
in October in the next class ( different driver). Syd had the car in his
collection at the time, and I thought that was the one being discussed. Of
course it wasn't, because the thread was on the 3 LaMans entries prior to
the release of the MGA, and the car in Syd's collection at the time was
EX181.
After some further investigation ( read, poke around on the web) it turns
out the car that Syd had is now in the BMIHT museum anyway so I didn't
really know where that one was either.
What a bummer....
Harlan.
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Proudfoot <amproud@nf.sympatico.ca>
To: mg list <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, July 12, 1999 8:54 PM
Subject: EX182 etc
>Based on Richard Aspden's "Classic MG" the EX175 was powered by a bored out
>TF engine (1466cc) what a none bored TF is I dunno. 182 was origionallly
>built for the 1955 Le Mans Race. This and several other races at the time
>were mared by bad crashes and the world started to take a closer look at
>racing. Not a good thing. The EX 186 had a lightened MGA chassis and was
>powered by a prototype twin cam engine. Apparently " the only prototype was
>broken up and no photographs remain, the only existing evidence of it's
>existance being a wooden scale model". This is the car that eventually went
>on to be an "A". YMMV
>
>Andy Proudfoot 77B (waiting for new fender, paint and longing to be
home!!!)
>Gander, Nfld.
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