MG Enthusiast – July 2019

MGE AUGUST 2019

Club, the twin-carb, MG-badged
models were introduced in 1962 and
were axed in 1971 with a recorded
116,827 of them being manufactured.
One of the downfalls of all of
these cars, just like many British-
manufactured vehicles, was corrosion.
With front and rear subframes and an
all-steel body, rust was predictably

quick to infest the metalwork and eat

away at the car’s structural integrity.

So, when the owner of the 1966 MG

1100 seen here, Ray Greenhalgh, learnt

that the first owner of this car insisted

on having it rust-proofed before he

drove it, he was quite relieved.

“When the first owner bought the

car, instead of picking it up, it was

sent away for two months because he

wanted it undersealed,” Ray explains.

“He had both subframes dropped and

undersealed, and the underneath,

then refitted and undersealed again.”

Being a retired motor mechanic

and aircraft fitter, Ray knew that, if

the rust-proofing had been conducted

thoroughly and subsequently inspected

1966 MG 1100

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