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MG TD TF 1500 - TD 1325 on e-bay

Early 1950 TD with solid wheels. Looks like it has been sitting out for some time. EXR on plate.

Jim
James Neel

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1950-MG-T-Series/292967854310?hash=item44363eb0e6:g:SoAAAOSwkGJcagB5:rk:4:pf:0 not bad for a starter; needs full resto. I would think the price listed is a little on the high side.
TRM Maine

This car (TD 1325) was discussed elsewhere; people noted the later engine, wrong dash and later instruments and the wiper motor location. Lots wrong; this will need to be a complete restoration.

I'm still interested in the solid wheels and when/where they switched over; the factory parts book says at TD 501, but it MUST be later. It seems as though EXR cars continued to have solid wheels significantly later than home or EXL cars - perhaps a case of "Let's us pawn these undesirable wheels off on cars shipped to the Colonies?".

I have kept track of solid wheel cars over VIN 1,000, and have read about TD1034 and 1275, both EXR cars with solid wheels. Another EXR car, TD 2,053 is reported as having solid wheels but I wonder if we should discount that car as probably too late for solid wheels?

It's hard to know what to believe about this TD1325, whether it is actually the latest solid-wheel car, being such a Bitsa.

Tom Lange
MGT Repair
t lange

I read the Barnfinds.com blog and this TD came up.
Frank Cronin

It would be interesting to know why it came to be put together with so many later TD parts.

Bruce Cunha

Tom - FYI my TD 1580 is EXR with pierced wheels.
Tim
Tim Wilkinson

Tom
Something for you to have a poke around through
If you click on the chassis no on the left there is a pic of each car
There's one or two with solid wheels in the 1300's-----genuine ????

http://mgtd.mgcc.info/index-chassis.htm

William Revit

Tom

My TD is 1824 and has solid road wheels and a solid spare wheel. It is also EXR. The PO bought it 1975 with solid wheels and he had no idea why any PO should have changed to solid wheels before.
W_Mueller

There is always discussion about when TDs changed from solid to ventilated wheels - the factory parts book says at chassis 501 (January 1950), which has been sometimes mis-interpreted to mean the first 500 cars. Since the TD began with chassis 251, the first 250 cars - at least - will probably originally have had solid wheels. Later LHD cars with solid wheels do sporadically show up; I have seen solid-wheel LHD cars as high as 999. So I think it is safe to say that the first 250 TD all had solid wheels, and a few others came later, without any pattern. Solid wheels are not quite as rare as people think, since the YB came with identical 15" solid wheels (the Y, or YA as it is often known today, had 16" wheels). But would one retro-fit solid wheels to a later ventilated-wheel car?

The REAL real presence of late solid wheel TDs is clearly with EXR cars. The two highest-numbered TDs I have found with solid wheels are both EXR cars, presumably original and authentic - 2053 and 2154, with many other solid-wheeled EXR cars in the 1000-1850 range (based on photos in the Australian MG TD Register of Victoria, and Bela's note above). It seems clear that it was factory-intentional to supply EXR cars, generally exported to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, with solid wheels much later than UK or US cars - why, I do not know, nor when these wheels changed to ventilated.

Tom Lange
MGT Repair

t lange

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