A midget racer from Allan L:Solved! Alf Beasley's Lea-Francis engined car.

[Allan L]

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

[Motorace]

An Offenhauser from Indiana?

[Allan L]

Neither of those

[Tifosi]

Maybe a Ford V8-60?


Dan

[Allan L]

Not a Ford
Not 8 cylinders

[shamrock]

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

[Allan L]

Right era, wrong hemisphere

[pieter]

Is the SAB in the nerf bar a lead?

[Allan L]

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

[GRAYWOLF]

Right era, wrong hemisphere

Does that mean Southern hemisphere or western hemisphere?

[Allan L]

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]

NZ?

[Tifosi]

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]

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]

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

[Allan L]

Random answer: country correct, motor not

[Otto Puzzell]

A Repco / Holden?

[Allan L]

Not an indigenous motor

[Allan L]

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]

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]

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