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MG TD TF 1500 - OT can anyone identify this car?

I saw this car recently in St. Moritz following a road ralley. I took lots of pics but failed to get a pic of the badge. It's not a cobra but looks like one

Keith Yarbrough(TD 1275)

Looks like an Osca, See link

https://goo.gl/images/WQqH1i

I watched Denise McCluggage wreck one at Bridgehampton Race track.
Len Fanelli

For me it looks more like an early italian sports car similar to Maserati Zagato A6G.
W_Mueller

It's clearly Italian, in the Osca/Siata family of sports/race cars of the 50's. Osca cars usually had vertical grille bars, so I don't think that's it, and it looks too straight to be a Siata. Maserati grilles were more cordiform. Maybe a custom - there were lots of custom body-makers at the time, who would do a couple of examples.

Tom Lange
t lange

For comparison an OSCA MT4 with same point of view - seems Len got it.

W_Mueller

Though you cannot read the badge in the photo, the yellow and blue show it to be a Siata.
A Peddicord

Well, anyways, it was a beautiful car. i was so happy to see it being driven and not just sitting in a garage somewhere. There were lots of Ferraris, an MGB and a 100-6 AH. That I saw. Most likely many more.
Keith Yarbrough(TD 1275)

It could be a Siata Gran Sport with much modification, but I don't think so. The nose badge is not shaped like a Siata badge and the hint of a body builders logo appears to be a horizontal script but not Boano. The Borranis look to be scaled to 400 mm diameter which is nearly 16" while the knock-offs are not the larger 52 mm size that you would expect with that wheel size. 400 mm wheels were never, to my knowledge, used on the two smaller Siata series and only on the 8V which this is definitely not. A picture of the dashboard or side badge could help.
Jarl de Boer
t lange

The Siata Gran Sport has a split windscreen. The windscreen of the spotted car looks more like the OSCA. Imagine the grill and the lights of the OSCA and then compare.
W_Mueller

Jarl deBoer, acknowledged Siata expert, writes me,

"Looks to be an OSCA MT-4 with a modified nose (after a crash?) body would be by Morelli."

Tom Lange
MGT Repair
t lange

Tom He would know. Here is Jarl in his Siata at sears point.

Bruce Cunha

This thread was discussed between 26/08/2017 and 27/08/2017

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