Author Topic: A midget racer from Allan L:Solved! Alf Beasley's Lea-Francis engined car. (Read 2661 times)

Allan L · « **on:** March 29, 2007, 07:43:11 AM »

Yes it's a midget racer, but which engine has it got, and where was it built?

Motorace · « **Reply #1 on:** April 03, 2007, 03:40:59 AM »

An Offenhauser from Indiana?

Allan L · « **Reply #2 on:** April 03, 2007, 03:47:16 AM »

Neither of those

Tifosi · « **Reply #3 on:** April 03, 2007, 04:44:38 PM »

Maybe a Ford V8-60?

Dan

Allan L · « **Reply #4 on:** April 04, 2007, 03:42:36 AM »

Not a Ford
Not 8 cylinders

shamrock · « **Reply #5 on:** April 04, 2007, 04:11:43 AM »

Possibly an Irish or English miidget racer from the 50s.

Allan L · « **Reply #6 on:** April 04, 2007, 04:51:59 AM »

Right era, wrong hemisphere

pieter · « **Reply #7 on:** April 04, 2007, 05:20:42 AM »

Is the SAB in the nerf bar a lead?

Allan L · « **Reply #8 on:** April 04, 2007, 06:18:28 AM »

AB on the nerf bar are indeed a lead - they are the maker's initials.
Probably doesn't help, though

GRAYWOLF · « **Reply #9 on:** April 04, 2007, 11:49:15 AM »

Quote from: Allan L on April 04, 2007, 04:51:59 AM

Right era, wrong hemisphere

Does that mean Southern hemisphere or western hemisphere?

Allan L · « **Reply #10 on:** April 04, 2007, 02:23:47 PM »

Quote from: GRAYWOLF on April 04, 2007, 11:49:15 AM

Quote from: Allan L on April 04, 2007, 04:51:59 AM
Right era, wrong hemisphere

Does that mean Southern hemisphere or western hemisphere?

Depending on your Western hemisphere's bounding Longitudes, the answer could be yes to both!

GRAYWOLF · « **Reply #11 on:** April 04, 2007, 02:51:50 PM »

Tifosi · « **Reply #12 on:** April 04, 2007, 03:15:55 PM »

Let me run this one past you...back in the early '50''s, I believe it was Duane Carter who built amidget car that was originally planned to be a Formula One car. For reasons i don't recall, it didn't pan out for Carter to pursue that avenue much past the formative stage. Could this be that car?

Dan

Allan L · « **Reply #13 on:** April 04, 2007, 05:57:00 PM »

Quote from: Tifosi on April 04, 2007, 03:15:55 PM

Let me run this one past you...back in the early '50''s, I believe it was Duane Carter who built amidget car that was originally planned to be a Formula One car. For reasons i don't recall, it didn't pan out for Carter to pursue that avenue much past the formative stage. Could this be that car?

No idea who or where Duane Carter was, but I think not.

Also: not NZ, but right general area of the world.

Arthur Dent · « **Reply #14 on:** April 04, 2007, 06:59:41 PM »

Random sort of guess but from Australia with a Peugeot motor?

Allan L · « **Reply #15 on:** April 05, 2007, 03:15:56 AM »

Random answer: country correct, motor not

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #16 on:** April 05, 2007, 07:15:34 AM »

A Repco / Holden?

Allan L · « **Reply #17 on:** April 05, 2007, 08:49:23 AM »

Not an indigenous motor

Allan L · « **Reply #18 on:** April 13, 2007, 02:28:14 PM »

Since Dan's Ford V8-60 suggestion, an article has appeared about this car that tells me (which I didn't know before) that it did have a V8-60 before getting the engine shown.
I don't expect that to be helpful, but another photo just might be.

pieter · « **Reply #19 on:** April 18, 2007, 11:28:21 AM »

You got your pic on both http://www.justmidgets.homestead.com/Alfbaker.html and http://www.justmidgets.homestead.com/Classicphotos.html

Alf Baker is the 'AB' and they talk about the Lea Francis, so I would guess that is the missing fact

Allan L · « **Reply #20 on:** April 18, 2007, 03:43:21 PM »

Actually the sites you found have a better copy of the original photo than I used!
However, if you had read the text a bit more attentively you would have seen that although a lot of the first site is Alf Baker, the AB in this case was Alf Beasley.
It was a Lea-Francis engine, which, although you may not have noticed it, is a common thread for several of my offerings.

I think that's solved it as I only asked where it was made and what the engine was.
Arthur Dent got the country; Pieter got the engine.
How can I award half a mark each

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Author Topic: A midget racer from Allan L:Solved! Alf Beasley's Lea-Francis engined car. (Read 2661 times)