Anyone know the whereabouts of N436 SAC?

[Rob Bell]

This car has come up in my research on aerodynamics for an article for Fast Forward. It is a purple Amaranth MGF, first registered in September 1995. It is currently on a SORN.

Anyone know this car and its whereabouts?

[N436SAC]

i own it. just purchased this car

[churchsquare]

At this time I still own it,David

[talkingcars]

At this time I still own it,David

If you have agreed a sale then this isn't the way to encourage the buyer.

[Rob Bell]

Brilliant! So great that we know where it is. Hope that the sale goes through smoothly. Hope to see it in the metal soon? Aside from its history, Amaranth is one of my favourite colours, along with Volcano.

N436 SAC is a rare survivor car. Registered in September 1995 (as many of the NxxxSAC cars were - often for VIPs or company directors), this particular car spent time at MIRA for aerodynamic proving. In fact, of all the MGFs and prototype TFs that went to MIRA, I think that this is the ONLY known survivor; most disappeared from the road after 4 or 5 years having probably having led hard lives as engineering hacks before being scrapped.

There are a few cars I can't find any information on for on the DVLA website - either in terms of registration or tax history (strange, as they were clearly registered?):

• G876 XCP

  

• M662 PJH
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• N789 XOP
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These three were probably very early prototypes - and almost certainly crushed

The others have simply disappeared, but if anyone knows of these cars whereabouts, I'd be very interested to find them and hear about them!

• J998 WRE - BRG MGF (Registered October 1994, taxed until April 1996)
• M726 PJW - White MGF - (Registered April 1995, taxed until June 1998) - I suspect that this is the MGF used on the MIRA publicity data for this car:

  

• M492 SJW - Red MGF (Registered July 1995, taxed until July 2000)

  

• N223 TOK - White MGF (Registered August 1995, taxed until February 1998) - another contender for that white MIRA MGF
• P639 HOV - Red MGF VVC (Registered April 1997, taxed until June 1999)
• S905 VUK - Silver MGF - X40/TF prototype (Registered November 1998, taxed until 2002)
• T230 MOA Black MGF CVT - X40/TF prototype that was used most extensively for clay styling/aero development (Registered July 1999, taxed until January 2001)
• V599 NJW - used for splitter aero testing in 2001 (Registered December 1999, taxed until November 2011)

None of the above are registered on the DVLA as being on a SORN.

Over to you guys to see whether we can find any of these missing prototypes!!!

[N436SAC]

now home.let the work commence

[Rob Bell]

now home.let the work commence

[Rob Bell]

N436 SAC was used to check the aerodynamics of the standard hardtop (it turns out it’s quite slippery, dropping Cd by 0.02!)

[Rob Bell]

There was another "SAC" car used for aerotesting - N442 SAC - an Amaranth purple MPi.

Unfortunately this one has not been taxed since 2004 - probably scrapped by someone unaware of its history?

Anyone know of this car? It was used to see how the windbreak affected aerodynamic performance (which it does by the way, beneficially)