MG TD Mark 2 For Sale

1953 MG TD Mark 2

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Rare factory Stage 2 specification model

Nigh on unique opportunity – current owner 50 years!

Original RHD UK car – one of just 51 UK TD Mark 2s

Professionally restored by MG specialist in 2003

Arguably the most practical and best specification T type of them all

This car is beautifully finished in MG red with red leather interior and beige wet weather equipment and comes complete with spares and an impressive collection of documentation accumulated over the last 50 years ownership.

Try and find another like this!

£24,750

The TD Mark 2 is a rare factory produced stage 2 tuning model with greater power and stability than a ‘normal’ TD.

We are very tempted to keep this car for ourselves, but reluctantly we must find a new home for the current owner’s "old friend", this delightful 1953 MG TD Mark 2...

Owned since 1957 it comes with an impressive collection of documentation accumulated over the last 50 years of ownership; to include copy of the original V5, (showing just first and present owner), various intermediate older style V5s, selection of MOT test certificates, tax discs, original operation manual, copies of contemporary and modern road-tests, articles with tips on maintenance, as well as receipts, including the 2003 restoration. There are also some photos from the 1960’s to the present day and a number of useful supporting books and parts catalogues going back over many years, all helping to build up a picture of the last 50 years continuous history. Please read the current owner’s summary: 50 Years with a 1953 MG TD Mark 2. In addition there is an assortment of spares to include spare wheel, box of engine and chassis parts, e.g. ball races, body rubbers, hub caps, Lucas spot and fog and other electrical parts.

Responding to demands for more power and better handling, the TD Mk II offered 5.5% more power than a standard car and has enhanced suspension with Andrex friction dampers at each wheel, thereby supplementing the Luvax Girling dampers. This gives the Mark 2 far better cornering over the standard TD. The compression ratio of 8.1:1 plays 7.25:1 of the standard car and the cylinder head has larger valves with heavier springs fed by bigger twin SU H4 1.5” carburettors, mounted to a modified inlet manifold. Fuel supply is via twin SU pumps. The Mark 2 also had a ‘faster’ rear axle ratio and, latterly in the production run, the model got a different distributor which altered the advance curve to better suit the higher compression ratio. Being a late car this TD Mark 2 enjoys all these improvements over the standard TD.

29,664 TDs were made between 1949 and 1953, of which just 1,710 were TD Mark 2s. Of those, 51 were sold in the UK and most of the rest were LHD and sold in North America. A surviving RHD UK car is therefore something of a rarity.

This car was the subject of a full (£17,000) restoration in 2003 by a marque specialist and is in excellent order throughout. Unmarked coachwork, wet weather equipment and trim, lightly patinated leather seats and some chrome combine to make this a thoroughly charming car. Excellent door fit, oil pressure and road manners give an easy sense of a well sorted car. The only immediately obvious non standard items are the pancake air filters. However the original air filter assembly is included too.

There can be few examples of the TD Mark 2 as desirable as this one, when taking into account the overall condition and provenance, fewer still built original RHD. Hurry, they really don’t come up very often like this!

£24,750

Viewings are invited when you will have the chance to speak with the engineer who prepared the car.

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Viewings

Viewings are by appointment, and are a relaxed affair, where you can take the time to decide whether the car is right for you. A full record of the work undertaken in preparing the car for sale is available to you, together with the known history of the vehicle.

We are a small family business based just outside Bodmin in Cornwall, very close to the A30/A38 cross-over. We are very pleased to meet prospective purchasers from trains arriving at Bodmin Parkway Railway Station (London-Paddington to Penzance line) and from flights arriving at Newquay Airport (flights from many UK airports).

Please call 0845 458 1108 (local rate) and speak with either Rob or Martin or send us a contact us form.