MG BGT "Jubilee"
KSR 12P
KSR 12P was built on the 9th and 10th of April 1975 car number G-HD5/376340 as the heritage certificate shows. It was in the first 25 Jubilees to be built and it seems to be the earliest surviving. It left the factory for Duthie and Sons in Montrose in Scotland before the end of the month. It was registered by Richard Lawson (Motors) in Kirriemuir and sold on the 1st November 1975 to Agnes Wade. I do not know what the number out of the 750 was allocated to the car, see the articles linked from the other pages for an explanation. If you have any information about the car, even if you think I might have it, let me know by e-mail Trefor @ medical-legal.co.uk
I have copies of all the sale and transfer documents for the car which show that it changed hands on 31st Jan 1977 and was owned by a Mr Dodson who lived initially in Newport on Tay across the Firth of Tay from Dundee, then near Comrie in Perthshire. He sold it at the end of 1983 to a Mr Armstrong who lived at Bridge of Earn south of Perth who in turn sold it in November 1987 to a Mr Milne who lived in Perth. I have an MOT certificate from a garage Perth in 1988 by which time it had done 75,500 miles.
It was bought from Mr Milne in Perth on August Bank Holiday weekend 1988 by a classic car enthusiast from Northern Ireland, Basil Jess. He tells me he was in the area for a classic car show and saw it in the paper. He took it back to his home in Lisburn Co Antrim Northern Ireland. Over the winter most of the front of the car was replaced, it was re-sprayed and restored. I have a full list of body parts bought and scans of the invoices of the parts that were supplied by the Brooklands MG Centre in Belfast and hope to have photos of the restoration soon. It was then sold to a dealer Dick Graham who passed it on to a Mr John Parks of Newcastle, Co. Down, N. Ireland who is said to have been a collector of classic cars. The following few years were possibly spent in a museum but Basil Jess saw it about 1990 at a classic car show at The Ulster Transport Museum, about to be shipped to England. There is no information as to the exact details of the owners over this period as the records in Northern Ireland are not kept by the DVLA.
The next owner in England was a Sheffield based artist called Hazel Lale (see http://www.hazellale.co.uk/ ) who had it for a year then sold it in August 1993 to Bob Knight a classic car enthusiast from Beighton near Sheffield.
He did some more restoration replacing the wheels with a new set that, despite being shipped to the USA and returned via Southampton ended up in Worksop! He went on to win many trophies (some pictured left) at classic shows all over the North of England. He also used the car daily and clocked up another 15,000 miles, taking it nearly to the 100,000 mark.
Bob sold it to a dealer in 1998 in order to buy a TR6 and the next owner, Gordon Hair must also have used it regularly as the MOT certificates show about 7,500 miles per year until it was sold again in 2001, possibly back to the same dealer in Doncaster. I bought the car off Ian Murray, another classic car buff who builds AC Cobra replicas and restores Morris Minors and other British Classics. He has an MGC GT in a poor condition.
I have had it since 2002 and do less than 2,000 miles per year, keeping it as best I can in the same condition as it was sold to me. The wheels were repainted and new tyres put on in 2002. I had the engine converted to unleaded and generally overhauled by Steve McKie in Chesterfield in 2004 but in May 2005 I blew a valve when the throttle stuck wide open on a new rubber mat. The car was off the road during the whole of 2006 due to this and family illness and the wet summers of 2007and 2008 have meant it has done very few miles since.
At some point the car acquired a reconditioned engine, an alloy
rocker cover and K&N air filters. The engine (No 18GB-RU-H 68962) is actually
several years older than the rest of the car, the block dating from January 1967
according to the casting mark on the sump. The original engine number suggests a
replacement rather than a factory recondition unit (they had new numbers given
them with a different sequence). The original engine number was 18V-847-FH/4877. If anyone information about
the engine, or the car that the current
engine came from I would be most grateful.
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