1957 MG MGA Base 1.5L

Description for MG MGA 1957

1957 MGA 1500 roadster restoration project with engine recently restored, new tires and brand new seats. Original Spoke wire wheels with spare tire (new tires!), new headlights and new mirrors. At this time is only missing body work, eatbelts, aint and top.

This is an appreciating classic that can be and should be driven and enjoyed today and will be worth more tomorrow. This vintage MGA Roadster 1500 is ready to be finish with bodywork and few other items! Thanks for looking!

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This is an appreciating classic that can be and should be driven and enjoyed today and will be worth more tomorrow.

Thanks for looking!

The MGA is a sports car produced by MG division of the British Motor Corporation from 1955 to 1962.

The MGA replaced the MG TF 1500 Midget and represented a complete styling break from MG's earlier sports cars. On 26 September 1955 the car was officially launched at the Frankfurt Motor Show. A total of 101,081 units were sold through the end of production in July 1962, he vast majority of which were exported. Only 5,869 cars were sold on the home market, he highest export percentage of any British car. It was replaced by the MGB.

The design dates back to 1951, hen MG designer Syd Enever created a streamlined body for George Philips' TD Le Mans car. The problem with this car was the high seating position of the driver because of the limitations of using the TD chassis. A new chassis was designed with the side members further apart and the floor attached to the bottom rather than the top of the frame sections. A prototype was built and shown to the BMC chairman Leonard Lord. He turned down the idea of producing the new car as he had just signed a deal with Donald Healey to produce Austin-Healey cars two weeks before. Falling sales of the traditional MG models caused a change of heart, nd the car, nitially to be called the UA-series, as brought back. As it was so different from the older MG models it was called the MGA, he "first of a new line" to quote the contemporary advertising. The MGA convertible had no exterior door handles,however the coupe has door handles.

It was a body-on-frame design and used the straight - 4 "B series"engine from the MG Magnette saloon driving the rear wheels through a 4-speed gearbox. Suspension was independent with coil springs and wishbones at the front and a rigid axle with semi-elliptic springs at the rear. Steering was by rack and pinion. The car was available with either wire-spoked or steel-disc roadwheels.