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Offline dw230

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MG film from the salt
« on: May 17, 2011, 09:13:42 PM »
Forgot if this was posted before, sorry if a repeat.

That sign and entry bridge were there when I first started going to the salt.

http://www.youtube.com/user/mrplw#p/a/f/0/26Fe4xCnAIg

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Re: MG film from the salt
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2011, 09:46:57 PM »
I never saw it before.
great vintage film of the salt beds.
that schlitz looked pretty good.

any more? film, that is.

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Re: MG film from the salt
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2011, 09:48:02 PM »
Nice video.  I couldn't help but recall the advertising of the day, and don't know if it was for MG or for Austin Healy or both.  It went like this: Basically a stock production car with nose and tail sections replaced (I can't remember the explanation for this), the engine was "tuned" (in British parlance, this meant that everything possible had been done to the engine internals), and the supercharger was to compensate for the higher altitude (yeah, right).  A bit of British understatement.
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Re: MG film from the salt
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2011, 10:32:00 PM »
Dan, thanks for that.

Goldie Gardner, the driver, was a WWI vet who suffered an incredible hip and leg injury.  That he was able to drive at all was nothing short of a miracle.

If I'm not mistaken, that very chassis ran 200+ on the Autobahn just before WWII with a 1.1 litre supercharged engine.

And you've just got to love those nuts in the MGTC's.   

And now, for dessert.

Sterling Moss' 1958 car.

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=81576

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Re: MG film from the salt
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2011, 11:17:45 PM »
Interesting that the American test driver who went unnamed in the British film appeared to be future world champion Phil Hill.

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Re: MG film from the salt
« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2011, 11:19:20 PM »


Few manufacturers took LSR more seriously than Morris Garages.
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Re: MG film from the salt
« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2011, 12:52:16 AM »
Nice film!!  Was not that fully aware of MG's involvement with land speed records.

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Re: MG film from the salt
« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2011, 11:45:41 AM »
Thanx, PJ -- I thought that might be someone important!
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Re: MG film from the salt
« Reply #8 on: May 19, 2011, 12:09:10 AM »
Interesting that the American test driver who went unnamed in the British film appeared to be future world champion Phil Hill.

Pete

Good catch - I've viewed the vid a dozen times and never put two and two together.
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