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MG TD TF 1500 - Previous Owners of MY Car

Received a photo of the 2nd and 3rd owners of my TF. Dr.Duvall and Cleve Crews. Dr.Duvall was the 2nd owner who owned the car for 40 years, he is 88 now. Cleve bought the car from him. Still working on the original owners name. PJ


PJ Jennings

I love this kind of thing. Good luck on finding owner number one.

Tim
TD26711
Tim Burchfield

Me too. Sure wish I could trace the history of my cars, but they are mostly lost.
Steve Simmons

I love knowing the history of our cars. Thanks for posting.

(Top) The second owner of my TF c1964 before he had completed replacing chrome after repaint.
(Bottom) Me when I bought it in Dec 2013

I'm the fifth owner. I know the second and fourth owners. Still looking for first and third owners.

Lonnie
TF7211



LM Cook

http://www.ttalk.info/Tech/OldFriend.htm is a story about my finding early owners of Lazarus. Bud
Bud Krueger

My TF was abandoned, beside the store of his parents, in Montreal, when he moved back to France. Purchased by Bill Barnes, it was full of rotting leaves and crushed the top down. He then did a multi year restoration, finished by 1961. He then sold it to the third and present owners in 1994. We have traveled about 66,000 miles since. We never could source the name of the first owner.
Cheers, Byron

JB Warwick

Current owners at speed on the Indianapolis Speedway track.
Byron.

JB Warwick

I believe my TC was the last TC sold in the United States. It was a birthday present for his wife, delivered on May 5th, 1950.

D. Sander

It's tough to beat that last photo, but I managed to find my TF owner from the 1970s.He was a USAF pilot, stationed in California. He bought it from a Francis Charles Reading of Palm Desert, CA in 1971 which is where I hit a dead end. There's a badge mounted on the right side, just next to the fuel tank, but I can't make it out. Could be MG Owners Club of Southern CA.
It would be really something to find out about him.
Tyler

C.T. Irwin

Lonnie, I recognized a 1956 Pontiac Star Cheif in the background of your top pix. I had one of those.

Cheers

Gary
79 MGB
gary hansen

Hi Gary -

Yep, I saw the car in the photo. '55-'56-'57 was the start of GM's great styling of the 50s and 60s. You had a neat car.

Are you going to GOF-South, March 22-25 in Altamonte Springs? Hope to see you there. It ain't no "Ho-Hum" GOF.
http://www.gofsouth.com/

Lonnie
TF7211
LM Cook

hello all. happy driving New Yeaar from
NORWAY. My TD 4490's first Owner:
Steven Rubert Bailey, Sunnyvale CA
car license number FGG609 first sold 00/00/51
sold 08/23/75 to
Michael John and Margaret Jane Freeman
San Jose CA Then turned up in Denmark where
I bought the car from one henning
thomsen, 1999, and still own.
regards Thoralf. Norway TD 4490
Thoralf Sorensen (TD4490)

I had connections to two different TDs on the San Francisco Peninsula. One, my sister owned circa 1958-60 was originally cream then cheaply painted red but the grill and wheels remained green. Cronommetric instruments as I recall as a young boy. I often wonder what happened to that car when my father sold it for her about November 1960 but I heard that it later suffered a broken crankshaft.



John Quilter (TD8986)

I couldn't find the first owner of my TD, but Bob Berl of Rochester NY, was the second. He purchased it in 1960 from a Pontiac dealer. Here is Bob selling the car to his neighbors, Skip and Wanda Crawford in 1983 for $250. I bought the car from Wanda.

Charlie Adams

Lonnie, giving serious thought to the G.O.F. in Altamont. Chatted with my next door neighbor who owns a 51 TD to see if we can convoy to the event. Still in progeress.

Cheers

Gary
79 MGB
gary hansen

I'd like to suggest to everyone that when you post information or pictures of your car you include the chassis number. You never know when someone doing a search for a chassis number might be looking for your car. It could lead to the discovery of additional information for you about your T. It would also be helpful to future owners in researching their car. Happy New Year.

Tim
TD12524
TD26711
Tim Burchfield

Any information available on my car - TF2250, would be good as I have nothing. It left the USA around 2012 and was a near wreck painted birch grey with a white hood and red interior. Original colour when new in ‘54 was black with a red interior. A (tax?) sticker on the windshield was from New York State circa 1972, so that may have been the last year it was officially on the road before being left in a barn somewhere. Original engine 32108, but rebored at least 3times before I got it.
Dave H
Dave Hill

Dave, I did a search of the database I have and didn't find anything on your car. I did see an old New York add for the New MG TF with a list price of $2250 (with disk wheels).

Tim
TD26711
Tim Burchfield

Tim would you or anyone in this group have any infor on TF/7238 engine XPEG/1112 it has a build date of 27 Sept. 1954
A friend in Charleston SC has it and he purchased it from someone near Charleston but does not have any info on it at all. The engine was replaced with an XPAG engine prior to him purchasing it. He’s trying to find the whereabouts’ of the original engine.

Ed
TD/20709
ECS Stanfield

Ed, this is from the 1981 TSO: TF HDA 46/7238 #4524 John Medynski 680 Knollwood Rd. Franklin Lakes NJ 07417. Hope that helps.

Tim
TD12524
TD26711

Tim Burchfield

Ed, you're in luck! I searched for your car in the TSO CR-ROM of the NEMGTR and had a hit. In the December 1981 issue of TSO there is an entry:
HDA 46/7238 #4524 John Medynski 680 Knollwood Rd. Franklin Lakes NJ 07417

The #4524 is probably John Medynski's NEMGTR Member #.
Medynski is a popular NEMGTR name with family ties in the NJ area. Bud
Bud Krueger

Ed, upon further reading, the TF7238 information in the TSO is listed under an event held in 1976. Here is the heading for that section that contains TF7238:

MK XXII Jun 24-27 1976 Buck Hill Falls PA

Tim
Tim Burchfield

Looks like your John Medynski may still be around, and now lives in Florida....

https://www.whitepages.com/name/John-B-Medynski/Titusville-FL/57z3v3w
Kevin McLemore

It would be nice if there was a repository where people could post engine numbers of T series engines (blocks) they might have lying around. Those in search of an original engine just might get lucky searching the repository. I know someone posted an engine they had on FB and the owner of the car from which it came was contacted. It didn't work out but that's an example of how a repository might work.

Tim
Tim Burchfield

Tom Lange can relate an engine to the car in which it was originally installed. Bud
Bud Krueger

Tyler. The badge in your picture appears to be from the California T Registry

Bill Chasser
TD-4834
W A Chasser

Contact George Medynski at Tuxedo Motor Sport, he can probably point you in the right direction.

http://www.tuxedomotorsport.com/home.html

Jim
James Neel

Just got a message that the fella I bought my car from is going to visit Dr.Duvall (2nd owner) and ask him who he bought the car from, (the original owner). Dr.Duvall is hard of hearing and can not use a phone, so direct communication is a must. Hope he remembers! PJ
PJ Jennings

Paul, if you post your chassis number perhaps others can help find information about your car as was done for Ed Standfield above.

Tim
TD26711
Tim Burchfield

8353 is the number Tim, but I'm very close to finding out the original owner, as long as DR. Duvall can remember who he bought it from, then were in. PJ
PJ Jennings

Thank Paul. Here's is someone looking for you:
http://www.autoshrine.com/registry/TF8353

Tim
Tim Burchfield

Sorry, but 8353 does not show up in the NEMGTR CD-ROM as being mentioned in TSO's between #1 and Dec. 2004. Bud
Bud Krueger

Tim, I just contacted them and re registered ownership, thanks. PJ

Bud,I bought the car in March of 2010, prior to that I don't know if it had ever been registered with anyone. It sat for over 20 years in a building somewhere before the fella who I bought it from bought it and I don't think he ever did anything with it.
PJ Jennings

Appears that it had never belonged to someone who was a member of the NEMGTR. Not unusual. Ed's just happened to have been a member's car. Bud
Bud Krueger

Greetings to all,
While I have never formally introduced myself, I have been perusing this site and gathering valuable information from all of you as I have progressed through the restoration of my MG TF, HDP 46/1826 with XPAG/TF 30669. I have found that nearly every issue I have encountered to this point has been covered by studying the archives. You are an amazing group and so forthcoming with your knowledge and experiences that it makes it possible for a neophyte, like me, to undertake the challenge of a frame up restoration. Many thanks to all of you!
My car is at the point of awaiting final paint after disassembly, engine rebuild, a few mods (thank you LaVerne for the help with my anti-sway bar and Dave Clark with the rear differential mod), reassembly, etc. Now I am trying to exercise patience as I await my turn with my painter and then on to interior and reassembly again.
My plan was to send photos of my car complete, while expressing my gratitude to this group for all of the assistance I have received but while waiting and reading this post, I began a historical search and came to a sudden halt.
I purchased my car in October 2016 from a Ollie Neith in Bethlehem, PA. He had owned the car since 1968, driving it as a daily driver until 1997, when it went into storage. I believe either he or the previous owner were members of the NEMGTR, as there was a sticker on the windshield, which had to be replaced, as it was cracked. I have reached out to him for any information he might provide, but have not gotten a reply as of yet. Any recommendations or help any of you might offer would be greatly appreciated.
Best regards,
Dave Hodson
Jacksonville, FL
DLH Hodson

No info about the car in the CD-ROM, but Ollie Neith shows up with a Tech Tip in Aug '91 that a loose TF fan was actually being caused by a sloppy woodruff key. He was a member at least until 1997. Bud
Bud Krueger

Bud, Thank you for checking.
DLH Hodson

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