Spent the last couple of days playing with this car & other MG's in Bob's collection....
http://www.mgbob.com/index.html
It is a car that I have been involved with over the past couple of years. Notice the ugly dude still had his Mustang jumper on for the pic..
Another one of his cars is a "survivor" MG TC that was raced at Torrey Pines (near San Diego CA). Some up & coming drivers in the races (that we have the program for) were guys named Phil Hill & Carol Shelby. Apparently they both became well known later in their lives.
It is an interesting car as it has bucket seats that were WW2 surplus taken from a very famous B17 bomber. Was a Generals plane & might have been Bradley's plane (still to be confirmed by cross referencing the # on the seats to the aircraft logs of the era).
Notice the WW2 aircraft seat belts that are installed as well. Very strong, bolted to wood!
Those seats had a slip on cover over the back, No seat cushion as the pilot/co-pilot sat on their parachutes. Look at any old WW2 pic of an aircrew walking to the plane & you will see the bulky chute hanging low behind them. It then fitted into that bucket on the bottom (hence the name "bucket seat")!
