As a more than serviceable replacement for the NA-Type Magnette, MG’s ‘1½-litre’ VA is also rare: just 1259 saloons, like the one sold at Chris McPheat Automotive, were built before the war.
The VA was a product of a refocused MG. Until 1935, it had been William Morris’s personal property, but was now incorporated into the Morris Organisations (later the Nuffield Organisation). This changed things dramatically, with a ban on motorsport, the closing of Abingdon’s design office and instructions that future MGs were to be less
