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Aug 22, 2016 15:20:35 GMT
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Aug 22, 2016 15:55:46 GMT
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Aug 22, 2016 16:15:52 GMT
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It looks to have absorbed a couple of Aston Martin styling cues, reminds me a little bit of the way Rochdale cars were going.
Looks fibreglass possibly? Might be a kit car? Hints of Ashley or Reliant Sabra.
I can't think of any car I know of car which matches up with this so am guessing it was concept, custom or an experimental vehicle that didn't make it into production?
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Last Edit: Aug 22, 2016 16:33:49 GMT by MkX
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Aug 22, 2016 16:26:30 GMT
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Aug 22, 2016 16:50:31 GMT
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I'd guess that's a PA Cresta or Velox front screen and those hubcaps are so familiar, they're ringing a bell at the back of my mind but I just can't actually remember what the're off originally. (I've not read through the whole thread on pistonheads)
My guess, some enterprising person wanted a Corvette but couldn't afford one in 50s Britain so built his own. (but with a roof for the British weather.) Now makes me wish Chevy had made a fastback C1 Corvette.
(now got to the bit about the hubcaps!)
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Last Edit: Aug 22, 2016 16:51:57 GMT by ratchart
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I would say that it's a heavily modified Daimler Dart.
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Aug 23, 2016 12:58:04 GMT
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I would say that it's a heavily modified Daimler Dart. It's been suggested, but almost nothing apart from the rear wing tip says 'Dart', and the proportions are all wrong, sadly. |
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PhoenixCapri
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Aug 23, 2016 14:13:12 GMT
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Looking at the rear arch (has a small but obvious lip) and the rear wings I would have said a series 2 Sunbeam Alpine  And there are some similarities to a the Harrington coupes  But the door/screen position doesn't match so there would have to be a heck of a lot of modification - my best best would be a very modified sunbeam or more likely a Special with the rear fin moulded from an Alpine/Dart |
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Aug 23, 2016 14:27:29 GMT
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Well reading that original thread has lost me half an afternoon...
Dunno, but my guess is a one-off re-bodied midget/sprite a bit like a Lenham. Seems the right size and proportions for a midget to me.
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If at first you don't succeed........
....Don't try skydiving!
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mk14dr
Yorkshire and The Humber
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Aug 23, 2016 14:41:16 GMT
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autoshite has suggested an Ashley gullwing but has quickly been discredited.
There is the chance that it was a home built affair as such there is the distinct chance that it has passed from living memory with no hard records other than that one picture.
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miaspa
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Aug 23, 2016 15:07:34 GMT
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The only thing I can think of is Convair Special, but the only photos I can find sort of make up the sum of the car not the actual one. The rear wings aren't right in the bottom picture, but the hardtop looks right in the first but the styling is completely wrong.   |
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Last Edit: Aug 23, 2016 15:08:17 GMT by miaspa
Found my flashing Pao again.
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Aug 23, 2016 16:56:08 GMT
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My first thought was Sunbeam Alpine, but its not, authough it does owe alot of its look to it, and the daimler dart. I'm not too hot on my kitcars, but by the looks of it the Convair suggestion must be pretty close, or it just another kitcar of a similer trend. And I recognise those hubcaps but theres every chance I'm thinking of something like them, but not them. I'm actualy no help at all, but very interested to find out.
Ah, could it be a custom bodied lotus 7, explaining the need for gulwing doors?
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Last Edit: Aug 23, 2016 17:25:35 GMT by bmcnut
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Aug 23, 2016 17:24:59 GMT
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AHEM........  First owner was Piers Courage, its a fibreglass top made by Fibrepair. Could be a start? |
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Last Edit: Aug 23, 2016 17:31:30 GMT by bmcnut
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Aug 24, 2016 11:47:42 GMT
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Aug 24, 2016 12:01:46 GMT
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Aug 24, 2016 12:22:09 GMT
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oops ! whadda mistaka da maka !!!!! |
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fogey
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Aug 24, 2016 19:15:38 GMT
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Been pondering this one for a long time - as a result of the Pistonheads thread the pic was also used for the monthly 'Mystery Car' pic in Classic & Sportscar magazine (way back in February I think it was) but to no avail.
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Aug 24, 2016 19:16:00 GMT
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Looking at that fuller picture there's a 105e Anglia in the background which means it's at least 1959 and I bet some clever Sherlock Holmes type could probably tell us what street in Ol' Lunn'n Town that is. Not sure if that's of any help to identifying the car though. It's a great illustration of the difference between the olden day and now. Back then even the owner probably didn't take a picture of their own car for posterity, and there probably weren't any magazines that featured that sort of thing in Britain so a home built special (which is what I'm guessing it is) would go basically un-recorded. People just didn't take so many photos then except on special occasions. If anybody drove some cool looking unusual car in town now there'd be a couple of dozen people posting it on instagram before it even got to the end of the road.
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Aug 24, 2016 22:45:41 GMT
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They know WHERE the picture was taken and roughly when (1962) other evidence backs this and gives possibilities from 60-64 but the book the original photo was in dates it as 62. And they are pretty sure where the hubcaps came from! And that's it! About 2 years of painstaking research down blind alleys by several people and still no-one knows what it is, who made it, what it was called, what powered it etc. If i'd created something that pretty, I'd have damn well taken a photo or two! But apparently this is the only shot of it known to exist.
Steve
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