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Dad in ORX77F

Great photos and history. Thanks for posting.

Advertised for sale in this month’s Cooperworld as an unfinished project. Looks very good.

Has it sold recently ?

Nice to hear that it sold to a well respected forum member. I’m looking forward to seeing the history being updated and the car being completed.

spoon.450 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 01, 2021 9:56 pm Nice to hear that it sold to a well respected forum member. I’m looking forward to seeing the history being updated and the car being completed.

Well I’ve been called many things by many people but ‘well respected forum member’ would be a new one

Hope you’ve had a good Christmas Nev. Please keep us posted regarding ORX.

Lineage of ORX77F from New to Present day.

MG Car Co.(Abingdon) : Sept 1967 - March 1969

Geoff Grundy : March 1969 - Aug 1970

Raymond Thompson : 1970 - 1973

Richard Johnson : 1973 - 1977

Peter & Richard Tooth : 1977 - 2021

Neville Smyth : Present Owner

Timo in the 1000 Lakes

It’s 2nd owner Grundy in his first rally in the car. April 1969 Rally of the Vales.

3rd Owner Ray Thompson, 1972 Rally of the Tests

4th Owner Richard Johnson. No idea what event (looks like a hill climb maybe)

The 5th owner Peter & Richard Tooth. Approx 1977/8. In their ownership the car only completed 386km from its March 1977 MOT to present day. As they started to strip and restore the car in the late 70’s.

If you look back through the photos from the 1000 Lakes in Finland in Aug 1968 you will see this Customs sticker stayed on the windscreen from Finland Aug 1968 right through the cars life. The last photo is the customs sticker today.

Inside the car is a type of motorbike tax disc holder which is bolted to the upper dash rail. Inside the holder many of its tax disc’s were found including its very first disc when taxed by Abingdon.

This is the car as I bought it a few weeks ago. It’s partly restored over the year, with many parts restored and in a million boxes. The bodywork was undertaken in the 80’s when the availability of the correct panels is not as good as it is today. It got new wings, new front panel which needs altering to correct the details, It got a new floor and boot floor. This panel came as main floor,cills, boot floor and rear bulkhead all as one, the bulkhead and cills are not correct and need to replaced. It’s a shame the floors had to be changed but they were trashed after so many rallies. Thinking about it Peter and Richard were very forward thinking to under take this level of metal work for the 80’s. Most people in the 80’s would just have reshell the car, thanks to them 77F is still in its very 1st shell that was delivered to Abingdon in September 1967.

The trashed floor in the late 70’s which had to be replaced as a result.

Congratulations on your purchase Nev , its good to see one with continuous history . best of luck with the build .G