Current owner: John Batkin Estate, Victoria Information: The first recorded owner of J3767 was Asia Owczarow an aristocratic Russian Jew living in Paris. He is known to have owned this J3, QA0252 and K3011. He used a number of aliases to conceal his motor racing from his parents who were...
Current Owner: Ed Taylor, Victoria Information: MG J3, chassis J3762 – Early history and competition record There are no known records of the cars early years in the UK. It was exported to Australia in 1934 and first registered in Victoria on 14 February 1935, almost exactly two years after...
Current owner: George and Marguerite Morgan, Victoria MMM No: 78 Information: Guarantee plate issued 7/12/32. Standard 2-seat body, painted green, registered JB 1047. Retained by Works and used for Class H record attempts at Montlhery 1932 and then Le Mans 24 hour race in 1933. 7/12/32: Guarantee plate issued. 18-19/12/32: ...
Current Owner: Ron Killcullen, Western Australia Information: Built at Abingdon on 19/10/33 and shipped directly to Lanes in Melbourne as a CKD kit. Lanes dispatched the car to Aspinall to receive one of their door-less two seater bodies. History: Information supplied by Matthew Magilton On completion the car was registered...
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Current Owner: Gordon Taylor, Western Australia MMM No: 2417 Information: Built at Abingdon 22/9/33 as a rolling chassis for export to Australia. History: No history provided. The car first appeared on our register in the very earliest days and with the same owner from the '60s through to 2022. Notes on...
Midgets / Western Australia / 794 views
Current Owner: Peter Partridge, Western Australia MMM No: 2416 Information:Â Built at Abingdon 22/9/33 as a rolling chassis for export to Australia. History: Fitted with a locally built two-seater body the car was owned by Clem Dwyer in the '30s and used to contest a rally organised by the RAC of...
Midgets / Western Australia / 765 views
Current Owner: Ed Farrar, Western Australia MMM No: 2103 Information: Built at Abingdon on 26/4/33 as a 2-seater for the home market. History: No early history known. During the '60s and '70s Geoff Coles was very successful in the UK with a J-type special often described as a J4. This...
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Current Owner: Allan Herring, Western Australia MMM No: 1395 Information: Built at Abingdon on 15/3/33 as a 2-seater for the home market and painted red. It was first registered on 8/6/33 with number BRF 10. History: Purchased by A.H. in 1972 from the well known Bone Brothers "Bone yard" in East...
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Current Owner: Ian Burston, Western Australia MMM No. 1661 Information: Built 14/11/1932 as a 2-seater for the home market. Registered 1/12/1932 and used by a dealer as a demonstrator until sold to a lady buyer in England. History: Purchased in Bristol and imported into Australia by Owen McNeill in Queensland...
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Current Owner: Ian Buckley, South Australia Information: No history provided
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Current Owner: Martin Barrett, South Australia MMM No: 1097 Information: Built at Abingdon on 1/12/32 as a 2-seater for the home market carrying registration number APC 614. History: No history provided
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Current Owner: Col Schiller, Queensland Information: This J2 based special has been a dedicated race car for many years and currently has a CAMS category Kb log book. Known history is that the car was owned by well known South Australian M.G. collector Don Shinners from 1955 to 1984 when...
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Current Owner: Ralph Leach, Queensland Information: No history provided
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Current Owner: John Byrne, Queensland Information: Built at Abingdon 5/10/33 in CKD form without bodywork. The car was shipped to Lanes in Melbourne and dispatched to Aspinalls to be fitted with one of their door-less two seat bodies. History: It was sold to Les Murphy and registered 65.434. With Murphy driving...
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Current Owner: Arthur Morris, Queensland MMM No: 2411 Information: Built at Abingdon on 24/7/33 as a 2-seat roadster with swept wings. History: No history provided. The first reference to this car is in the P-w Register dated 1973 where mention is made of a J2 being imported by Ray Kleinschmidt...
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Current Owner: Daniel Wong, Queensland MMM No: 2397 Information: Built at Abingdon on 27/3/33 as a 2-seater for the home market. Registered WO 7609. History: The car languished in the Ison collection from the mid-70s until acquired by D.W. in 2005.
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Current Owner: Peter Clark, Victoria MMM No: 2407 Information: Built at Abingdon 5/10/33 as CKD for export to Australia. Early images show it was fitted with an Aspinall 2-seater body. History: Believed to have been bought from a wrecking yard in the S.E. suburbs of Melbourne circa 1960 by Donald...
Current Owner:Â Keir Whitcher, Victoria Information: J4417, the fourth last J2 produced, was built at Abingdon in 1933 as a rolling chassis for export to Australia. History: written by Graeme Jackson, full version appeared in Pre-war Newsletter No. 1/2016 Imported by Lanes Motors in chassis form in May 1933 together with...
Current Owner: Jennie & Graeme Jackson, Victoria Information: Gary Grant bought the J2, registered ALH233, in the UK in 1967, brought it back to Australia and sold the car to Alan Bail in 1968. By 1982 Alan’s enthusiastic driving resulted in a thrown connecting rod, and the car passed wounded,...
Current Owner: Dorothy & Paul Acfield, Victoria MMM No: 2399 Information: Built at Abingdon on 20/5/33 as a 2-seater for the home market. Delivered to University Motors and sold to Mr C.W. Rosenkranz with registration number MG2611. History: It was imported from the United Kingdom in 1979. John Holliday purchased the car in 1985...
Current Owner: David Bishop, Victoria MMM No: 2627 Information: Built at Abingdon on 19/3/33 as a 2-seat roadster with cycle guards for the home market. An image from the '50s on the MMM site shows the car with swept wings. History: Early history unknown the '50s image mentioned above shows...
Current Owner: Chris Lamrock, Victoria MMM No: 2395 Information: Built at Abingdon on 14/3/33 as a 2-seater for the home market. History: Written by Chris Lamrock. Registered VJ 5175 in greater London – delivered 18 April 1933. Problems with the head and the dynamo in the first year. Dynamo problems...
Current Owner:Â Jim Murphy, Victoria. MMM No: 1304 Information: Built at Abingdon on 10/3/33 as a 2-seat roadster for the home market, it was green with green trim. History: Early UK history unknown. Exported to New Zealand in 1965 where it had three owners: Thomas Atherton, Robert Brown and Malcolm...
Current Owner: Rod Amos, Victoria MMM No: 37 Information: Built at Abingdon on 6/10/32 as a 2-seater for the home market. History: I have just taken over the role of caretaker from Diana Dwyer, who campaigned it for 48 years both in Britain and Aus., as well as using it...
Current Owner: Stuart Andrews, Victoria MMM No: 2403 Information: Built at Abingdon on 26th September 1932 as a 2-seater and sold by University Motors London on 11 October 1932. History: Written by Stuart Andrews The first owner was F.R. Wells of Digswell, Mill House, Welwyn, Hertfordshire UK. Francis (Frank) Wells...
Current Owner: Brian Oxley, Australian Capital Territory Information: No history provided
Midgets / Capital Territory / 753 views
Current Owner: Brian Cather, Queensland MMM No: 122 Information: Built 14/3/33 at Abingdon as a 2-seater for the home market painted black with blue trim. It was one of 14 M.G.s, a mix of J2s and L1s, ordered by the Lancaster Constabulary to use as patrol cars. First registered on...
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