WEST REYNOLD'S 1948 MGTC

1948 MGTC  No 4896  Birthday 26^th February

Purchased by Flt Lt HC Cooper RAAF on 2^nd July 1948 for £711.13.2 Registered as SA239743 (as it is today) from Motors Ltd of Gawler Place Adelaide SA.No 4896. Used daily around Adelaide till 1950, when Flt Lt Cooper was transferred to Woomera Air Base for 3 years – making 7 round trips on extremely rough roads to Adelaide. Driven to Queensland due to a transfer with the RAAF for a few years and finally driven back to South Australia. By 1956 100,000 miles were registered on the ‘clock’. 

The next 15 years were spent in Adelaide with No 4896 making several interstate trips – averaging 4,000 miles a year! Early in 1970 at 160,000 miles, the car had an engine overhaul, new paint, from black to its colour today.  Bob Reid of Kurralta Park, SA. carried this out. After another 25 years (Adelaide and Interstate) the speedo approaching 300,000 miles another engine overhaul/paint also carried out by Bob Reid. In 1995 Flt Lt Cooper was not in good health and No 4896 did little mileage. In 1999, No 4896 with its original plates, handbook, tools and papers was purchased from Bennett’s Classic Car Auction SA (Deceased Estate) by the car’s second owner - West Reynolds (ex RAN).

No 4896 – a very original example of a MGTC

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