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244 Stanley Howard ‘Wacky’ Arnolt from Chicago was an American Mid-West distributor of British automobiles whose first offerings under his own Arnolt marque were a 2-Door Coupe and Convertible, styled by Franco Scaglione of Batmobile fame and bodied by Italian Bertone in Turin on the Abingdon-built MG TD rolling chassis.

The Illinois-based entrepreneur sold 65 Arnolt-MG Coupes and 35 Convertibles in two years before switching his attentions to Bristol-engined cars.

This is reckoned to be one of only three Fixed Heads currently resident in Europe.

Identified by MG TD chassis number and Arnolt 244 body number, this 1954 car with TD engine was formerly owned by Betty Krause of Florida in the US where bodywork and interior were last restored during the 1990s.

The paintwork is in Haze Blue, the original colour, and the leather in dark blue-grey.

After a spell in Antwerp, Holland, the Coupe passed into vendor ownership in 2000, since when, according to Retro Motors receipts fo...