Back to back: Real Works MG or replica Works Healey?

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A real works MG or a recreated Works Healey? That’s the question. We are still unsure ourselves.

The MGA seen here is a Twin Cam that was prepared by the MG Competitions department in Abingdon and supposedly entered in the 1959 Tulip Rallye (driven by John Gott with a different registration number as it wears today), before being repainted BRG and shipped to South-Africa for an MGA promotion and publicity project in that part of the world. It’s got some interesting features such as a quick-release fuel filler cap that’s fitted in the boot lid and an ultra-large rev counter. It drove only local events in Africa before being shipped to Canada in 1974. Fourteen further years later, it came back to the UK and is now for sale in Monaco. Price estimate is 90- to 120,000 Euros.

Would you prefer it over a replica of the 1952/'53 Austin-Healey 100 Special Test car? This one originally went to Australia as a BN1 (that’s the early three-speeder) of 1954, where it was involved in a prang somewhere in the 1970s. A restorer Down Under brought it back to life and decided to turn it into a recreation of one of the Special Test cars. And it hasn't seen much use since. From the seller’s blurb: “It was entered for its sole race at Philip Island, Australia, in 2016, before being shipped to the owner’s Swiss home where it has been used sparingly around Italy and the Alps. This one is estimatesd on 140- to 170.000 Euros.

Both cars are for sale with RM Sotheby’s this weekend during their Monaco sale. See the full catalogue here. We still don't know which would be our favourite! How about yourself?

(Words editor, pictures courtesy RM Sotheby's)

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