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Barrett's #153 - Solved - KM 300
« on: May 12, 2011, 09:32:19 PM »
Not a repost!

Name of this car for a point
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Re: Barrett's #153
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2011, 11:34:03 PM »
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Re: Barrett's #153
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2011, 07:02:52 PM »
One step closer, Pal...
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Re: Barrett's #153
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2011, 03:38:38 AM »
Anything to do with Falcon?
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Re: Barrett's #153
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2011, 04:37:28 AM »
I believe the body uses the same moulds as the Falcon MkII but other than that there is no connection that I know of
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Re: Barrett's #153
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2011, 04:38:42 AM »
Elva then?
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Re: Barrett's #153
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2011, 04:44:21 AM »
Not an Elva either.... There are several marques who used this body (it's still being built in much modified form today!) and this particular make has been featured here before...
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Re: Barrett's #153
« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2011, 05:10:00 AM »
You must mean the Autotune Gemini which still uses the basic shell, but It's not one of those is it.

One of these shells was actually fitted to a Triumph Spitfire to race at Le Mans in the early 1960's.  It's nothing to do with that project is it?  It doesn't look much like a racing car..
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Re: Barrett's #153
« Reply #8 on: May 20, 2011, 02:36:42 AM »
Quote from: Carnut on May 19, 2011, 05:10:00 AM
You must mean the Autotune Gemini which still uses the basic shell, but It's not one of those is it.

One of these shells was actually fitted to a Triumph Spitfire to race at Le Mans in the early 1960's.  It's nothing to do with that project is it?  It doesn't look much like a racing car..

Are you sure about the Spitfire? I'd never heard of that before, although there was an Austin-Healey Sprite Le Mans car with a Falcon body...

Either way, it's nothing to do with Triumph or A-H. You're right to think that it's not a race car either, this one was strictly road going (That's a big clue!)
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Re: Barrett's #153
« Reply #9 on: May 20, 2011, 09:31:23 AM »
KM 200?

(I'm not sure about the Spitfire - maybe it said Sprite and my memory is letting me down!)
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Re: Barrett's #153
« Reply #10 on: May 20, 2011, 03:06:50 PM »
Not a KM 200 (that would be a repost) but you're nearly there. Locked for you.
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Re: Barrett's #153
« Reply #11 on: May 21, 2011, 09:42:25 AM »
Is it a Nota then?
They took some of Keith Morrison's last KM200 bodies when he packed up and mated them to their own chassis.
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Re: Barrett's #153
« Reply #12 on: May 22, 2011, 06:50:18 AM »
You're getting colder... Look at the KM again and see what you can dig up. Still locked for you (for another 24 hours - you're very close)
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Re: Barrett's #153
« Reply #13 on: May 22, 2011, 12:56:21 PM »
Thanks!
Thought about the KM300 but it seems that car, whilst sharing the same basic body, had covered headlights.

In that case it must be a (the?) Concord!

P.S. I'm sure you don't mean 'Auscar' as a picture of a KM is captioned somewhere; I don't believe such a car ever existed but is simply an abbreviation of 'Australian Car' as the poster didn't know what it was!
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Re: Barrett's #153
« Reply #14 on: May 22, 2011, 06:58:00 PM »
Not the Concord, but it is the KM300!
I don't know about the covered headlights, but the 300 was the road going version of the 200, with the full width 'screen. It's possible that the photo was mis-captioned but this is a non internet (nearly) period source that seems otherwise reliable. Point added!
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Re: Barrett's #153 - Solved - KM 300
« Reply #15 on: May 22, 2011, 07:13:12 PM »
Thanks.

Since the car was by Keith Morrison it had to be either a KM200 (not possible as that would have been a repost), a KM300 or the Concord, but I couldn't actually find a picture of the Concord.  I wonder what that looked like?

Here is my source:

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Re: Barrett's #153 - Solved - KM 300
« Reply #16 on: May 23, 2011, 03:23:13 AM »
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Re: Barrett's #153 - Solved - KM 300
« Reply #17 on: May 23, 2011, 03:51:50 AM »
Quote from: Arunas on May 23, 2011, 03:23:13 AM
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=5828.25

Ah yes - that would explain why, when I tried to post this advert, I was told there already was a post with the same name on AP!
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Re: Barrett's #153
« Reply #18 on: May 24, 2011, 12:28:32 PM »
Quote from: Carnut on May 22, 2011, 12:56:21 PM
I'm sure you don't mean 'Auscar' as a picture of a KM is captioned somewhere; I don't believe such a car ever existed but is simply an abbreviation of 'Australian Car' as the poster didn't know what it was!

I was wrong!:

www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=6962.0

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