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| 1954 Jacobs MG Special, Stuart Dean, Etretat Hill Climb 2017. |
For more photos of the post war historic cars at the Etretat Hillclimb in 2017, click here.
Dick Jacobs, South Woodford, Essex, England. Dick Jacobs was a well known driver post-WW2 who drove for the works MG team and built a number of MG specials. He took over the Mill Garage from his father in December 1945 and the next year it became an MG dealership. He then took up racing MGs with his first race being at Goodwood in 1948 in a supercharged MG TC where he finished fourth. in 1949 he took his first win, had his first drive for the MG works team and built the fist of his MG specials on a TA chassis using a supercharged TC engine. In the early fifties he raced an MG YB in production races with some success. In 1954 he built two specials based on the MG YB, one of them being built on the last ever YB chassis 1551. The one built on chassis 1551 is the one owned by Stuart Dean and seen above at Etretat. They had special glass fibre bodies built by RGS Automobile Components Ltd and 1.5 litre MG engines. They were raced throughout 1954 but were however no match for the Lotus-MG of Colin Chapman. Dick Jacobs drove a prototype MGA for the works team at the ill-fated 1955 Le Mans 24 hours but had a very bad crash that ended his racing career. He did however recover to continue his MG business. Stuart Dean regularly races and hill climbs this car including at the famous Goodwood Revival meeting.
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