1946 MG TC Midget

"Giselle"<br />My Dad's pride and joy and now in my care - incidentally, her purchase price was £80/- in 1968.<br />After spending the War building tanks and aeroplane components, MG hastily reworked the pre-War TA/TB into the TC, and rushed it into production in the latter part of 1945 to bring some much-needed foreign currency into Britain. The TC is a nonetheless beautiful example of the archetypal British sportscar, and is often cited as the sportscar America loved first.<br />The TC has a ladder chassis, beam axles, semi-elliptic leaf springs, and a worm-and-peg steering box.<br />Oh, and Giselle's original 54bhp 1250cc pushrod OHV engine has been "tweaked" to 90BHP with a 1350cc overbore, hot cam and Shorrock C75B supercharger.<br />She was black with red upholstery when she left MG's Abingdon-on-Thames factory in September 1946; an upcoming refurbish will see a return of a little originality, although an extractor-type exhaust manifold may offset that slightly!