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I just heard a part of something on the Daytona 500, they're looking for pictures of someone's "Number-32 MG", apparently there are none and it belonged to someone of interest. Can anyone shed light on what they're talking about?
 
MG participated in 1963 in NASCAR, Winston New Salem NC.
I wonder if they mean the same 32 (MGA) that did LeMans?
 
The NASCAR one must be what they're looking for. Apparently they don't have pictures of it. I wasn't paying attention though, I'm not sure what prompted the MG discussion.
 
The only other non-American car besides Toyota to race in NASCAR was an MG in 1963, but they have no pictures of it and wondered if anyone watching did!
 
bugimike said:
The only other non-American car besides Toyota to race in NASCAR was an MG in 1963, but they have no pictures of it and wondered if anyone watching did!
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A Jaguar XK120 won a NASCAR race in 1954.
 
Maybe that is what they were referring to. I imagine one LBC is much like another to the NASCAR crowd!
 
The person looking for the photo is Mike Joy. He and many other MG enthusiasts have been scouring the globe trying to find this photo. The drive was Mike Cooke, but no one can even identify which car he was driving. He race d a TD for many years but it is unlikely he took it racing on an oval track! Could have been the LeMans MGA, or because of the year it could have been a new MGB.
 
McCombs book has a picture of the #32 MGA at LeMans, but no mention of Cooke.
This really is quite a mystery.
 
I still get a kick outta the Camry being called a forign car.
They're built in Kentucky.
Take a close look at the country of origin for some of the parts on those Fords and Chevys
(I know, it's a forign owned company. I get it)
I hope they find the pic of that MG. I'd love to see it.
 
Banjo, what's up with the new avatar? What is that, Cupid's nemesis?
 
Mehehehehe... Avast ye swabs! that be the standard of Captain Edward Teach, a.k.a. Blackbeard. Prepare to be boarded!
Har har harrrrr
 
Aargh, me hearties, "What happens aboard, stay aboard!!,hehehe"
 
The car in question was raced in a full Grand National event, on an oval. The track was Bowman-Gray, a paved quarter miler that would be better known to most of us as a gym class running track. IIRC it was on or near the campus of a local university and hosted auto racing until the early 90's. The car and owner competed twice at Bowman in the sixties.

I suppose if an MG was going to excel at a Grand National event, Bowman-Gray would be the place.

-Wm.
 
You would think that with that singular an entry into the "good ol' boys" domain, SOMEBODY would have snapped at least ONE picture!!!!!
 
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