hi .my name is trevor .i live in lancashire england .i have recently finished the restoration of a 1951 MG TD ,i have found two plates on the car ,first says .this car was specially prepared for Mr and Mrs Sam Dunlop by Oxford motors sacramento in 1951 second u.s.c.c grants rally 1953 .i would love to find out more of the cars history ,it was imported back to England in 2000 has a project car. it spent all its life in the U,S, many thanks ps i have the orginal licence plate number from the states
Welcome! Hopefully someone can help here.
A little work on the web will probably get you closer. Ask your question on the MGTD,TF bulletin board on this website: www.mgcars.co.uk and in the T-Series forum of mgexp.com.
You might also contact the New England MG T Register, which keeps a registry of T series cars, at www.nemtr.org.
Congratulations on your restoration. I hope to have my MGTD restoration finished this year...
This points out something I've noticed a lot of lately. Many British branded sports cars are now being shipped back to England. North America bought a lot of the sporty Brits in the day. And many Brits seemed indifferent to them, at the most.
But now, Brits often pay way over market to buy an originally North American delivered British car. Then they take them back to Britain which didn't really seem to want them originally. 
It's not that they didn't want them-- they HAD to "export or die." After WW2 the Brits were in a bad way economically and needed the exports. Not to mention that the market wasn't real deep for cars, much less sporty cars. Steel was rationed and those with the exports would get more of the steel.
Combine that with the fact that the ones that stayed in the UK climate quickly rusted to nothingness, there really aren't many home market cars available and fewer that can be economically restored.
it goes both ways...just bought a restored right hand drive '52 TD sold in england and shipped over to the states at some time in the past.
