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SOLVED - What car #559 - 1960s Emery GT
« on: January 05, 2009, 07:10:25 PM »
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Re: What car #559
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2009, 08:09:47 AM »
The lovely Emery GT!
It's as much fun to scare as to be scared

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Re: What car #559
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2009, 06:30:27 PM »
Lovely? Yes. Emery? Yes!

Only one point, though ;)
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Re: SOLVED - What car #559 - 1960s Emery GT
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2009, 07:36:58 PM »
Lovely?
It's not denial, I'm just very selective about the reality I accept.

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Re: SOLVED - What car #559 - 1960s Emery GT
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2009, 03:45:21 AM »
Lovely?
No need to be abrasive about an Emery ;D
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Re: SOLVED - What car #559 - 1960s Emery GT
« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2009, 03:52:31 AM »
You wanna be the man, you gotta Name That Car!

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Re: SOLVED - What car #559 - 1960s Emery GT
« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2014, 04:51:25 PM »
Here is a rare large photo -

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Re: SOLVED - What car #559 - 1960s Emery GT
« Reply #7 on: December 05, 2016, 02:21:05 PM »
Does anyone know who made the body on the aluminium prototype? :)

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Re: SOLVED - What car #559 - 1960s Emery GT
« Reply #8 on: December 05, 2016, 04:09:23 PM »
Does anyone know who made the body on the aluminium prototype? :)
My guess - Paul Emery himself...

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Re: SOLVED - What car #559 - 1960s Emery GT
« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2017, 04:00:13 PM »
I found a short piece in a book which says that Paul Emery designed and physically built his cars. Of the GT it says:

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The prototype had an aluminium body, and because it was constructed on an uneven floor, one door sill was deeper than the other, so the doors were of different sizes. Emery's response was typical... "So what? You can't see both sides at once."

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Re: SOLVED - What car #559 - 1960s Emery GT
« Reply #10 on: January 14, 2017, 12:57:15 PM »
Thanks. But I believe it could have said that he built the car regardless of whether he made the body or not, and the of the quotes does not specifically says that he built it. Paul Emery got bodies from KP Engineered/Maurice Gomm on other cars he built according to information I've found and I was wondering he perhaps used Gomms services for this car too. :)