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WORKS COMPETITION CARS - VT-104_EX179

EX179 - The first factory "MGA" competition car

EX179

MG EX179 1954 rebodied in streamline form from a 1952 EX175 prototype. Speed record 153 mph - Also averaged 120.74 m.p.h. for twelve hours. This car combined an EX175 prototype chassis with an unsupercharged modified 1500cc TF engine, driven by George Eyston.

EX179
1954 EX179

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