MG never made a V8 Roadster, but it's relatively straightforward to drop the Rover 3.5 into one. This one looks RHD and is the same colour as the unique V8 Roadster built by Don Hayter - "the father of the MGB" - when production ended and Abingdon closed. He "he sold himself an unused 'development' bodyshell (for £939.55) and 3.5-litre V8 engine, then built the only factory-made MGB V8 roadster (factory V8s were all GTs), the last MGB to leave Abingdon. Don and his team had been working on an update for the profitable US market using the O-series 2-litre OHC engine (including a very quick O-turbo), larger brakes and other modifications. Twenty or more redundant pilot-build bodyshells were left from this project and it was one of these that Don bought; identifiable because the inner-wing was reshaped for fuel injection. The car also features the first MG-badged rocker covers cast, which had been left unused in the development department.". Was registered WBL 348Y and is well known, including an episode of Clarkson's Car Years, also modelled by Vanguards, who did a very nice rendition.

Don sold it in around 2013 and died in 2020, which lead to this reprinted tribute. DVLA lists it as SORN with last MOT expired Aug 2020, but no export marker. I guess this is not WBL 346Y, but a lookalike/inspired by creation.