Description
Extremely rare MG K1 Magnette 1934 4 seat open tourer, fitted with its original KD 1271cc 6 cylinder twin carburettor overhead cam engine and pre select gearbox. It is still fitted with its original tourer body which is very rare in itself to find as although there were not many built anyway, most have had them thrown away to make K3 replicas.
I wont go on about what makes this car so special and rare above and beyond other models as anybody looking at this advert will probably know .
It is a matching number car and is very much complete. I am pretty sure everything works except the speedo which never worked as I dont think it has a cable fitted, and the petrol guage.
The chassis is superb and the body seems very good with just some surface corrosion on the back of a rear wing.
We pulled it out of the garage today complete with cobwebbs, charged the battery, put some fresh petrol in it and unbelievably it started on the first half a turn of the engine. Good oil pressure, holds water up to temperature and goes in and out of its pre select gears.
It has all its brass identification plates and also has its 4 original side screens although they do want retrimming, as my father only had the hood made all those years ago.
All of the tyres were new many years ago along with new tubes, they still look new so hopfully they are ok. This rare MG has been in my fathers ownership for the last 46 years and has been garaged throughout all of those years. When my father first bought it in 1978 he had it repainted, retrimmed in new leather with the correct piped sunburst pattern on the panels and piped seats, along with a new double duck hood and new carpets. I think it went out on the odd occasion and once a year for an mot in the first 4 years of his ownership and that is about as much use as it had. We did pull it out of its garage where it had sat up on blocks for all those years back in covid times with a view to recommisioning it, we got as far as having a new clutch fitted, along with the magneto rebuilt and some new wiring, and then it was put back in the garage where it has sat since.
The car now has a great patina as they say and I suppose you could call it a barn find which with some further recommisioning could be used as is, or you could do a full concours restoration on it.
It still carries its original registration number which happen to be my fathers initials, but it will be staying with the car.
We do have some paperwork with it including all of its old registration documents going back to its original buff card logbook, and ofcourse the current V5. There are some old mots, original paperwork copies from the MG car co which came via the science museum archives in Kensington London, also several old photos.
I cant imagine there are any more of this particular model out there so original, let alone for sale, and what a great investment opportunity to own a piece of very rare British motoring history.
Im sure ive probably missed something but please dont hesitate to ask any questions.
