1950 MG TD Roadster

History of MG TD 0653

This is car number TD 0653 and came off the production line in Abingdon on February 6, 1950 and was the 402nd TD manufactured. It is also one of only 149 Right Hand Drive cars produced for the home market (England) in 1950 and was registered in Cambridge (JE) with license BJE 131.

As a very early TD it had solid steel wheel, different from the perforated steel wheel found on most TD's.

In September 1968 it was purchased from an MG dealer in Huntingdon, England by a US Airman stationed at the RAF base in Alconbury for the sum of 190 pounds. At the end of his tour he shipped the car to Duluth Minnesota (July 1970). Most information prior to its purchase in 1968 has not been found, although the MG Dealer in Huntingdon stated the car had been used for racing in the late 1950's and early 1960's.

The car remained in Minnesota, and changed owners a number of times. The current owner purchased the car in Minnesota in December 1979 and began what turned out to be a 22 year ground-up restoration project. The car was finally completed in the spring of 2002 and put on the road in its new home of Seneca, SC.