{"id":43602,"date":"2014-12-20T00:00:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T00:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/?p=43602"},"modified":"2014-12-20T00:00:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T00:00:38","slug":"looking-for-history-on-this-mga-twin-cam-race-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/looking-for-history-on-this-mga-twin-cam-race-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for History on this MGA Twin Cam Race Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/GuiseppeEngine_cropped_resized-220x180-1.jpg\" alt=\"Looking for History on this MGA Twin Cam Race Car\" width=\"220\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43603\" \/>Giuseppe Gallara from Turin, Italy, recently contacted us regarding his 1959 MGA Roadster Twin Cam race car. This is believed to be one of just six cars produced in Abingdon for racing.<\/p>\n<p>This car has chassis number YD3-2343, and left the factory in July 1959 equipped for racing. It had a competition windscreen, an alloy steering wheel, competition seats, a 4.55:1 rear axle, and a close ratio gearbox. It was shipped directly to the US, and is Chariot Red, with a black interior.<\/p>\n<p>The car was exported from the US in 1993, and restored 2 years later. Dave Nicholas, of MG Vintage Racing fame, recalls seeing two red race cars &#8211; one driven by Joe Giubardo, and one belonging to Sherm Decker.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Guiseppe23032013003_cropped_resized.jpg\" alt=\"Looking for History on this MGA Twin Cam Race Car\" width=\"500\" height=\"275\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Guiseppe23032013003_cropped_resized.jpg 500w, https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Guiseppe23032013003_cropped_resized-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If anyone remembers seeing this car race, or has photographs of it while in the US, please <a href=\"mailto:giuseppe.gallara@gmail.com\">email<\/a> the current owner in Italy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Guiseppetwin_cam_resized.jpg\" alt=\"Looking for History on this MGA Twin Cam Race Car\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Guiseppetwin_cam_resized.jpg 500w, https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Guiseppetwin_cam_resized-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giuseppe Gallara from Turin, Italy, recently contacted us regarding his 1959 MGA Roadster Twin Cam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-mg-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}