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Name this car - Solved Ferguson R5/2
« on: December 10, 2006, 01:32:29 PM »
Well known manufacturer. British.  ;D



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Re: Name this car
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2006, 04:39:13 AM »
Are you sure it's a car?  ;)
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Re: Name this car
« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2006, 08:02:18 AM »
The steering wheel looks like that in my mother's 62 Hillman.  Something from The Rootes Group, perhaps?    ???
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Re: Name this car
« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2006, 12:32:07 PM »
It is a car but not from the Rootes group.

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Re: Name this car
« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2006, 02:11:37 PM »
Morris Cowley?

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Re: Name this car
« Reply #5 on: December 11, 2006, 02:18:49 PM »
Not a Morris.

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Re: Name this car
« Reply #6 on: December 11, 2006, 03:12:19 PM »
Standard Ten?

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Re: Name this car
« Reply #7 on: December 11, 2006, 03:28:24 PM »
nope this one has a flat four motor ...

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Re: Name this car
« Reply #8 on: December 11, 2006, 03:47:24 PM »
Quote from: Arthur Dent
a flat four
Is it a Jowett "Something"?

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Re: Name this car
« Reply #9 on: December 11, 2006, 04:29:44 PM »
Nope. Wasn't a production car. Want to see a picture of the motor?


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Re: Name this car
« Reply #10 on: December 11, 2006, 06:40:16 PM »
Possibly an experimental Ferguson 4WD car, but I don't recognise this one.
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Re: Name this car
« Reply #11 on: December 11, 2006, 10:09:51 PM »
Yes!

Its well known manufacturer just not a well known car manufacturer. Its a R5/2.

A few other pics here

http://www.autoreview.ru/new_site/year2002/n22/4wd/1.htm

R4
R5
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Re: Name this car - Solved Ferguson R5/2
« Reply #12 on: December 12, 2006, 12:22:10 AM »
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Re: Name this car - Solved Ferguson R5/2
« Reply #13 on: December 12, 2006, 02:41:12 AM »
You tricky trickster!  ;D
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Re: Name this car - Solved Ferguson R5/2
« Reply #14 on: May 17, 2011, 07:22:35 PM »
The pictures seem to have disappeared so here is a front and rear view of this car, as tested by Autocar magazine.