By editor Rutger Booy: Ask any schoolboy to draw a sports car. What do you get? Four wheels, a small, two-seater body and of course no top. To sum it up: what the kid draws is the basic shape of a 1930s MG: wire wheels, flat tank with strapped-on spare wheel, spartan body with cut-away doors and a fold-flat windscreen. A shape that continued well into the 1950's. That shape started with the archetypical MG of those days, the 847 cc, four-cylinder MG J2, every young man's dream and with more than 2000 built a commercial success for the MG factory in Abingdon.
One such MG J2, with chassis number J4211 came of the assembly line in Abingdon on October 19, 1933 as a rolling chassis, meaning it was drivable, but had no bodywork. After having been driven to the docks it was shipped to Australia, where it went to Lanes Motors in Melbourne, the MG-agents at that time. C.F.S. (Charlie) Aspinall coachworks in Melbourne created a racing body for J4211. It looked similar to the original J2 bodywork, but had a steel frame instead of ash, was slightly narrower at the rear and had no doors (Continue at Read More).
