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F#65 - Solved - 1954 Cooper-Connaught Disco Volante
« on: April 01, 2009, 02:35:26 PM »
Name the car for one point.
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Re: F#65
« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2009, 10:43:03 AM »
I know who has an answer, but does anyone else have?
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Re: F#65
« Reply #2 on: April 10, 2009, 10:45:24 AM »
I'm pretty sure at least one else...
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Re: F#65
« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2009, 11:17:58 AM »
 :) 1952 Alfa Romeo Disco Volante, by any chance... ?
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Re: F#65
« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2009, 11:19:18 AM »
It looks sooo much like that, but it's not Alfa Romeo.
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Re: F#65
« Reply #5 on: April 12, 2009, 06:38:01 AM »
This looks like the one-off Cooper-Connaught Disco Volante commissioned by John Risley-Prichard, blatantly copied from the Alfa Romeo.

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Re: F#65
« Reply #6 on: April 12, 2009, 08:36:20 AM »
And it is!
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Re: F#65 - Solved - 1954 Cooper-Connaught Disco Volante
« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2009, 09:18:36 AM »
I knew I'd seen it somewhere, but couldn't place it.
Hey ho.
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Re: F#65 - Solved - 1954 Cooper-Connaught Disco Volante
« Reply #8 on: April 12, 2009, 09:36:51 AM »
Quote from: Paul Jaray on April 10, 2009, 10:45:24 AM
I'm pretty sure at least one else...
That was you!
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barrett's #142
« Reply #9 on: March 01, 2011, 07:06:29 PM »
Seen this before? I only know the mechanical base, so one point for that and one point for any other information you have about it's origins!
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Re: barrett's #142
« Reply #10 on: March 02, 2011, 05:25:10 AM »
Looks like one of the many Alfa Romeo Disco Volante (Flying Saucer) cars of the 50s
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Re: barrett's #142
« Reply #11 on: March 02, 2011, 08:12:29 AM »
I believe we already had this too...
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Re: barrett's #142
« Reply #12 on: March 02, 2011, 08:18:10 AM »
I've checked it as well, but the search engine revealed nothing
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Re: barrett's #142
« Reply #13 on: March 02, 2011, 08:22:12 AM »
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Re: barrett's #142
« Reply #14 on: March 02, 2011, 09:29:52 AM »
Interesting, that's not what I have it as at all!
But it does look to be the same car - let me check my files and I'll post what information I have on it later
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Re: barrett's #142
« Reply #15 on: March 18, 2011, 01:10:29 PM »
Okay I'm going to let this be merged now. I've checked my source but ti doesn't give any mroe information that what  had, which is the car was based on a Riley! I think this may have just been a mistake on the part of the photographer who took the photos some 30 years before they were published.
Seen at Goodwood, c.1952
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Re: F#65 - Solved - 1954 Cooper-Connaught Disco Volante
« Reply #16 on: March 19, 2011, 04:33:20 AM »
Merged, and point awarded to JR
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Re: F#65 - Solved - 1954 Cooper-Connaught Disco Volante
« Reply #17 on: March 20, 2011, 12:14:19 PM »
According to Doug Nye's Cooper Cars [again!], John Risely-Pritchard had a spare engine with his two ex-Hawthorn Rileys so he had a Cooper 500 chassis widened and fitted the Riley engine into the front of it. he then in 1953 commissioned Wakefield's of Byfleet to build a body for it based on photographs of the Alfa Romeo Disco Volante.  The Riley engine blew up and he then rebuilt it with a 1500cc Connaught engine.
Hence the Riley connection. 
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