Magnificent, My J2 has continued to provide pleasure since it left the shop in 1995. At the California Automobile Museum in Sacramento, it has the reputation of having a superb exhaust note and causing tachycardia when I give people rides in it.
I rebuilt mine and love every inch of her. Shes in no way an original but the look and the lines are to me perfect. even today im just happy looking at her. Yes.. I too love taking people out for rides :-)))) Its such a buzz seeing people smile! 50mph is fast enough for me lol.
@@dw4music I've tried to keep my J2 restoration as close as possible to the original. I was lucky enough to get a copy of my car's first two-year sales and service records with the help of the MG Car Club of England. The records survived because the car was raced from 1932 until 1938. The color of the car and the interior are fully documented (red/red). The deluxe gage package was added by MG shortly after the car was built. There are a few very courteous letters about straightening the front axle after an accident involving a tree while the car was in possession of the first (race car driver) owner. (to this day, the camber is a degree or 2 off if you inspect the front end with extreme care, but it doesn't change the handling). Abingdon did not feel they should be responsible for this as it presumably occurred while racing. It also graced the cover of "The Sports Car" in 1938. Retired just before the war, it served in pub crawling throughout the blitz (I have pictures of it painted black with a blackout lens on one headlight (On low beam, only one headlight is lit). I had dinner with the man who owned it from 1948 until 1953 in Clacton-on-sea. Undocumented history reveals repurchase by none other than John Thornley in 1946 with the removal of the original 750 cc engine. (That engine was transferred to a racing speedboat, which sank in the Thames River.) A 1933 847 cc block is in it now. The car surfaced again as a honeymoon car for another couple in 1963. It came to me in wooden baskets as a stockpile of donor parts for a 1933 MG J2. I liked the idea of motorcycle fenders, so I set about restoring both cars, selling the more complete appearing 1933 MG when she was born. While the restoration was well underway, the entire history of the car surfaced and prompted some lively correspondence in Safety Fast. My daughter would get rides to school in the left seat when she was 11 years old (She's now 35). At one point, my car was borrowed by Martin Hveem Auto Restorations in Redding, California, and the details were copied into another J2 (that car went on to win at Amelia Island). Martin said it was the most authentic restoration he had ever seen. It is not a number-match car, but what a history. I absolutely love my MG J2. I have had it up to the mid-60 mph range on level ground and over 70 on a slight incline. Maybe the advertising by MG was not that far off. At speeds like that, it's not for the faint of heart.
