On 18 April 1934, WV5012, an MG PA series Midget was registered in Brighton in England. So far, not that remarkable, and quite a bit older than we normally feature on CC.
On 18 April 2014, the car celebrated its 80th birthday, with a certain panache, by taking a parking slot directly outside the front door of Nuffield Place, the home, from 1933 to his death in 1963, of William Morris, Viscount Nuffield, the man whose business built the car and after whom the car was named (MG comes from Morris Garages, one of Morris’s personal businesses, of course).
So, for QOTD, can you show a car, location and date set to match that?
I saw this Jag outside a dealership when I was getting my oil changed, tires rotated and some warranty work today. I imagine at one time it was common to see Jags like these(correction…. most Jags) outside repair places or to hear somebody moan that their Jag spends more time at the repair place then on the roads.
Great story. Thanks Roger!
Somewhere out there has to be a photo of a 1901-07 Curved Dash Olds in front of Ransom Eli Olds’ house in 2001-07, or a 1908-14 Ford Model T outside of Henry Ford’s Fair Lane estate at its century mark. Aside from one of those, I have a hard time thinking of anything to beat this MG.
Well back in 2008 my dad and I drove Sandy the Voyager to Buhler Automotive in Hazlet New Jersey where he and my mom had bought it in 1995. I still have that Plymouth’s buildsheet and other paperwork, but I never got a chance to drive it to the Windsor Ontario factory.
How about some Oldsmobiles at the old Oldsmobile Admin building in Lansing?
Great pic. I hope somebody familiar with this building said f*ck when they pulled the plug. My thanks to those that worked in this building that built some great memories for me.
Very interesting. I wonder how much those pre-war MGs shared with the later T series since they look so much alike.
Although not as pretty as that MG, here is a picture of Henry Ford setting in his original quadricycle he first test drove on June 4, 1896 from his work shop on Bagley Av in Detroit. He’s in his restored shop moved from there to the Ford museum, sometime in the late 40’s. Picture comes from The National Motor Vehicle Co.
Great photo, one of the better illustrations that what goes around comes around, and in a good way.
I had a lesser but similar moment when I was trying to find out something of the previous life and owners of my 300L, and ended up talking to the salesman who had sold it new. “Lesser” for two reasons: Only nine years had elapsed, and I was at the dealership where it’d been sold rather than the factory where it’d been built.