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Re: Fwd: LBC (but not Spridget) help

To: macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
Subject: Re: Fwd: LBC (but not Spridget) help
From: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 13:38:27 -0400
Larry,  
  Another good book to own is T-Series Handbook, published by MG T
Register, PO Box 220, Oneonta, NY. You would benefit from joining the
Register too.
  According to some info in that book, TF #s began with chassis # TF 0501
on 17 Sept 1953 and ended with #TF10100 on 4 April, 1955.   This does
make the number you cited appear suspiciously high.  The TD's chassis #
is stamped into the left side of the left dumb iron.  Check there,
perhaps the TF's # is in the same place. 
  The car # is set up with HDPnn/nnnn  which works out this way:
       HD shows that it's an MG TF two seater
       F     shows paint color
        first n   shows market for which the car was destined--US, home
market, etc
        2nd n   shows type of paint used, cellulose, synthetic, enamel
        /             just takes up space
        nnnn     are the four (or five) digets that show the chassis #.
  
    It's possible that the # on the plate is the engine #--look for an
octagonal plate on the right side of the engine about 3 inches back from
the front engine mount.  
Bob


On Mon, 15 May 2000 10:56:53 -0400 Larry Macy
<macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu> writes:
> Can somebody help him out?? Esp the serial number thing
> He is on the Spridget list.
> Thanks
> Larry
> 
> ---------------- Begin Forwarded Message ----------------
> Date:        5/15/00 7:30 AM
> Received:    5/15/00 9:21 AM
> From:        Larry Cogan, woodrat@spacey.net
> To:          sprite list, spridgets@autox.team.net
> 
> Saturday,  a date which I hope will not live in infamy, an 1954 MG 
> TF
> arrived in my driveway.  Does anyone have one of these lil beauties? 
>  I 
> cant
> seem to find a list comparable to this list.  One I have found is 
> for T
> series, but only the ABC models.  I have ordered the "Original MG T 
> Series"
> ( equivelent to Horlers) but dont have it yet.  My most pressing 
> question
> concerns the serial number on the car.  It is shown as
> TF 12342.  From the limited info I could scrounge from various 
> places on 
> the
> net, I find that less than 10,000 were built and therefore the 
> serial 
> number
> on this car may be bogus.  It is also seems to be in the wrong 
> location 
> and
> one data plate may be missing.  Can anyone give me some enlightened
> guidance?  I may be able to decline (whine/weasel out of) the deal, 
> if as 
> I
> suspect, there's something funny about the serial number.  The 
> title, of
> course, reflects the serial number.  The car is nice, but I dont 
> want to 
> be
> two years down the road and unable to sell the car to someone who is 
> at
> least as smart as I should have been Saturday.  I am seeing the 
> seller 
> this
> morning so time is of some importance.  Thanks, Larry
> 
> 
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> Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
> macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
> System Administrator/Manager
> Neuropsychiatry Section
> Department of Psychiatry
> University of Pennsylvania
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> 
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> question and you're a fool for the rest of your life. 
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