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KNOWN HISTORY OF MGAs SOLD NEW IN QUEENSLAND<br />
Part 2 by Dan Casey<br />
ITEM 2 - 26 KNOWN AND CONFIRMED TWIN<br />
CAMS OWNED IN QLD OVER THE PAST 56<br />
YEARS<br />
(does not include 5 without record,<br />
Item 3 and 3 not yet verified in Item 4)<br />
Ed: The first 11 of the 26 are detailed here. The<br />
remainder will be published, as space permits, in<br />
coming issues along with ITEM 3 (Qld previous<br />
owners known to Dan without record of their TC<br />
chassis/motor numbers), ITEM 4 (Current Qld based<br />
Twin Cams with chassis/engine numbers that have<br />
yet to be verified) and a number of brief items 5 - 11.<br />
YD3#1035 (Coupe) Orient red. Mark Wellard<br />
(Bardon)<br />
YD2#1672 (Roadster) Orient red. Trevor Blaney<br />
(Gold Coast), Bob Ingham (Cairns). Neil Wilson,<br />
the previous owner to Trevor Blaney, Neil Wilson<br />
transferred from Tasmania to the Gold Coast. I met<br />
him at the Gold Coast National Meeting in 1997<br />
and he asked me to sell it on his behalf. I agreed<br />
as he was recommended by an acquaintance, Max<br />
Freeland, of Tasmania (owner of 4 current Twin<br />
Cams). I was tempted to purchase it myself but<br />
YD2#2147 came up for sale and I purchased it for<br />
$23,000 as it had its reconditioned original engine.<br />
At $25,000 I could not sell TD2#1672 at that time as<br />
we were headed away on holiday to Keppel Island.<br />
The car was handed over to Rod Hiley (Abingdon<br />
Motors) who eventually sold it for a slightly reduced<br />
price to Jim Bennett in Sydney from whom Bob and<br />
Patty Ingram purchased it in 2008.<br />
YD2#1679 (Roadster) Old English White. Eric<br />
Dudgeon (Landsborough), Reg Upton (Nambour),<br />
Ian Pettigrew (Samford), Ross Kelly (Ashgrove).<br />
Detailed information supplied in ITEM 1.<br />
YD2#1693 (Roadster) Black with green upholstery.<br />
Mal Sheppard (Chermside), Terry Risby (Aspley).<br />
Twin Cam is now in England.<br />
YD2#1717 (Roadster) Glacia blue. Ian Sinclair<br />
(Hamilton), Rod Hiley (Abingdon Motors), Max<br />
Henderson (PNG), Bruce Croft (Carol Park), Roddy<br />
Abbott (Clayfield), Max Henderson (Maleny). Twin<br />
Cam is now in Japan.<br />
Ian Sinclair (a Victorian) was living at Hamilton in<br />
1982 when he advertised this Twin Cam for sale in<br />
the Courier Mail for $8000. I responded to his ad<br />
and took it for a test drive on Sunday afternoon but<br />
could not put this amount together by 5pm Monday.<br />
Ian sold it to Rod Hiley (Abingdon Motors) Tuesday<br />
morning for $6000 and he flew back to Melbourne<br />
that afternoon. I had just purchased a very original<br />
2600 Mk2 MGA for $5000. This information is<br />
supplied for comparison of prices only. Rod had this<br />
Twin Cam in his showroom for a number of years<br />
and at one stage its stable mates were YD2#1672,<br />
YD2#1717, YD2#1834 and Coupe YD1#2491.<br />
What a sight for us odd bods. Rod sold it to Max<br />
Henderson (Maleny) and then on to Bruce Croft<br />
(Carol Park) who then had it restored at Abingdon<br />
Motors. A Waggott Engineering developed Twin<br />
Cam motor that Rod had on display for a number of<br />
years was installed. This motor had to be detuned<br />
as Bruce could not manage it and as he had just<br />
purchased a 1934 K3 (the ex-Frank Bett's car).<br />
He sold the Twin Cam to my friend Roddy Abbott.<br />
The motor was onsold to Brian Barford, then owner<br />
of YD5#2325 (South African Coupe). Years later,<br />
Brian on sold this motor to a Twin Cam owner in<br />
Switzerland for $10,000.<br />
Roddy was a big man as well as being tall and was<br />
not comfortable in this car so he back traded it on<br />
an E type that Rod Hiley (Abingdon Motors) had for<br />
sale. The car then passed again to Max Henderson<br />
(Maleny). At his daughter's wedding reception, which<br />
was attended by Rod and Di Hiley and yours truly as<br />
Max's daughter had married by nephew, Max offered<br />
the Twin Cam to me for $42,000 as he was sure he<br />
would get more at the upcoming Shannons auction<br />
in Sydney. The car sold for $42,000 at auction so<br />
it looked like my offer of $38,000 - which he had<br />
rejected - was on the low side. Max did not take into<br />
consideration $4200 (10% commission), detailing<br />
etc $400 and transport cost of $900 to get the car<br />
to Sydney. He received $36,500 in hand. There is<br />
an old saying 'a bird in the hand is worth two in the<br />
bush' which I reminded him of next time I saw him.<br />
Unsurprisingly, this did not go down well with Max.<br />
18<br />
The <strong>Octagon</strong> - November 2015
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