Vehicle Description
We are pleased to present this unique MGC Roadster that was first
supplied to the MG main dealer in Southern California in 1968. The
original specifications included automatic transmission, wire
wheels with the coachwork finished in British Racing Green. The
interesting life of this motor car really began in the early 1970s
when a UK serviceman, whilst serving in California, purchased it
from the main MG dealer. He, apparently, used the MG for a couple
of years and then returned it to the dealer asking for it to be
converted to righthand drive as he was to be posted back to the UK
and wished to take the car with him. A local body shop was
entrusted with the work; the conversion included a North American
steering column and switch gear, Sebring-style steel wheel arches
(manufactured on an English wheel) and a later MGB dashboard that
accommodates the MGC odometer and revolution counters. The engine
was said to have been removed, rebuilt and balanced; sadly no
documented evidence of this exists, whilst an overdrive gearbox was
also added. After a year had passed, the serviceman became
un-contactable, the suspicion being that he had a large bill to pay
so returned to the UK without paying. There the MGC sat for over 20
years until purchased by Bob Sauder of Grass Valley, California in
the early 1990s. At this time, it was finished in primer and had
many features such as the wire wheels, six branch manifold, triple
carburettors and a Downton twin pipe exhaust system. It stayed
there until Bob, now in his 70's, decided that he would never get
around to finishing the project and so sold it on to the current UK
owner in February 2012. It was then that the serious work of
re-commissioning the MGC began and completed to the standard you
see today. In fact, such is the condition of this dry-state MG,
that there is no evidence of the car ever having been welded (apart
from the addition of the steel wheel arches) or of it ever having
been involved in an accident. Further additions include telescopic
shock absorbers all around, renewed brake and clutch systems and a
rebuilt, overdrive gearbox, whilst the well respected trimmers, P.
J. M. Motors of Market Drayton, Shropshire, trimmed the leather
interior. It is now UK registered and comes with an MoT test
certificate with no advisories, valid until May 2018. Today, this
unusual and unique MGC, nicknamed �The Monster' presents very well
and, we are informed, drives just like an MGC should. Love it or
hate it, you will not fail to notice it! For sale by auction on
Saturday 23 September 2017 with Historics at Brooklands, Brooklands
Motor Racing Circuit, Weybridge, Surrey, Call 01753 639170
