MG Midget TF 1500 Roadster 1954 XPEG 2330

MG Midget TF 1500 Roadster
Les Grandes Marques a Monaco Collectors' Sports and Grand...
Year:
1954
Auction House:
Bonhams
Chassis number:
XPEG 2330
Date
May 21 2007
Engine number:
Unknown
Registration number:
Unknown
Body number:
Unknown
Sold for:
€ 19.550
Over the years the model has been developed to improve its performance, handling qualities and general comfort.
However, in spite of this, the main external features have remained more or less unchanged and even now the
recently introduced TF model shows that the bodywork has been restyled to produce a much cleaner external
appearance though retaining the MG Midget characteristics. - Autocar.
As popular now among enthusiasts of traditional British sports cars as it was in its heyday, the TF was mechanically
little different from the outgoing TD II, retaining its predecessor s body centre section while featuring a changed front
end with shortened, sloping, radiator grille and headlamps faired into the wings, plus an improved interior with
separately adjustable seats. The TD s 1,250cc, XPAG engine was retained at first, but the need for more power
prompted the swift introduction - in November 1954 - of the TF 1500 (with 1,466cc XPEG engine) which accounted
for more than half of total production. With the larger engine, top speed improved by some 5mph and was now within
a whisker of 90mph, with 60mph coming up in around 16 seconds, more than two seconds quicker than the 1250.
Last in a noble line of traditionally-styled MG sports cars, the TF sold well, 9,600 being produced between October
1953 and May 1955.
The vendor purchased this MG Midget at Bonhams Sale of the Jean-Pierre Beltoise Collection at Les Grand
Marques à Monaco on 16th May 2005 (Lot 204). Jean-Pierre Beltoise had been particularly fond of the MG TF, this
quintessentially British sports car being one of his dream cars and being the first he ever owned - as a Dinky toy! He
purchased this example from his friend Sylvain Garant, a talented GT driver of the 1960s and 1970s. Since
acquisition by the vendor the MG has been re-commissioned and its interior re-trimmed. It is offered with related
invoices from Auto Technik Lienert and Warmsbach Autosattlerel GmbH totalling in excess of 13,500 euros, and
comes with owner s manual, service records and valid German Fahrzeugbrief.
Cette MG Midget a été acquise par l'actuel propriétaire à la vente Bonhams Les Grandes Marques à Monaco le 16
mai 2005 (Lot 204) de la Collection Jean-Pierre Beltoise. Ce dernier appréciait tout particulièrement la MG TF, cette
voiture de sport typiquement britannique étant une de ses « voitures de rêve » et la première qu'il ait jamais possédée
sous forme d'un Dinky Toy ! Il avait acheté cette voiture à son ami Sylvain Garant, talentueux pilote de GT des
années 1960 et 1970. Depuis son acquisition par le vendeur, la voiture a été reconditionnée et son intérieur refait.
Elle est vendue avec un dossier de factures d'Auto Technik Lienert et de Warmsbach Autosattlerel GmbH pour un
montant de plus de 13 000 euros, le manuel de l'utilisateur, l'historique de son entretien et un Fahrzeugbrief (titre de
circulation allemand) en cours de validité.
The ex Jean-Pierre Beltoise1954 MG Midget TF 1500 Roadster
Chassis no. XPEG 2330