Topic: Barrett's #50 - solved - Daimler SP250 Fastback by Stan Brown

[barrett]

Okay, the base of this is easy, no points for that.  want to know who designed it, who built it and where it comes from.

[barrett]

an expert might know?

[Carnut]

This is the one-off Daimler SP250 Fastback Coupe designed by Stan Brown (formerly of Hooper) and coachbuilt by Aluminium Engineering of Brookvale, Sydney, Australia.

[barrett]

Another perfect answer Carnut!

[Allan L]

I haven't come across this before and, as a former owner of SP250s, I wonder if Aluminium  Engineering actually put a metal fastback GT top on the original GRP body. That would be a reversal of the more usual which was aftermarket GRP hardtops on metal bodied open cars (e.g. Ashley on Sprites).

[Carnut]

I haven't come across this before and, as a former owner of SP250s, I wonder if Aluminium  Engineering actually put a metal fastback GT top on the original GRP body. That would be a reversal of the more usual which was aftermarket GRP hardtops on metal bodied open cars (e.g. Ashley on Sprites).

I would guess you're right.
I can't imagine for one moment they remade the whole thing in aluminium!

[Allan L]

Much more satisfactory in shape than the bodged-up SP250 estate I once had (and rebuilt back to standard). It was a puzzle some years ago here:
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=3099.0

[barrett]

Don't shoot me, but I quite like that! Shame someone cut up a Minicar to make it though (rarer than an SP250 now, surely). Looks like you did a great job of the restoration though, do you know if it's still around?

[Allan L]

Don't shoot me, but I quite like that! Shame someone cut up a Minicar to make it though (rarer than an SP250 now, surely). Looks like you did a great job of the restoration though, do you know if it's still around?

It was never really finished as an estate car - for instance the back seat would have been where the fuel tank had been but there was nowhere else to put the tank. Someone then decided it would be a racer so fitted hugely widened wheels and racing tyres, short and unsilenced exhaust pipes and stripped out most of the interior. Nobody got round to working out how to fix the E-type bonnet to the car.
I sold it in 1979 to a dealer who was masquerading as a private buyer and did meet the man he sold it on to, but what became of it I don't know. DVLA still has it on its records and shows its "date of liability" as 1/4/1997 so perhaps it has gone to ground for 13 years.

[sixtee5cuda]

The puzzle image is gone.  I found this image several years ago.  Are there any other pictures of this Fastback?