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Solved - MJW #193 - Caversham Special Sports 1956
« on: January 08, 2011, 03:51:02 AM »
What was this car called, who built it and when for one point
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Re: MJW #193
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2011, 05:24:40 PM »
Experts?
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Re: MJW #193
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2011, 04:01:46 PM »
Up to the Pros now
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Re: MJW #193
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2011, 02:39:32 AM »
No response to this one so I'll add a couple of clues -

It's not a one-off, it was built by an Australian company and it could be based on two different British mass-produced cars.
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Re: MJW #193
« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2011, 02:48:32 AM »
Buchanan Cobra from 1958?
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Re: MJW #193
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2011, 02:05:16 AM »
Quote from: Wendax on March 04, 2011, 02:48:32 AM
Buchanan Cobra from 1958?
Not that
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Re: MJW #193
« Reply #6 on: April 10, 2011, 02:06:16 PM »
Time for another clue -

Although this car is Australian it shares its' name with a former village (now a suburb of a larger town) to the west of London
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Re: MJW #193
« Reply #7 on: April 11, 2011, 04:42:02 AM »
Twyford?  Anything to do with Bill Buckle?
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Re: MJW #193
« Reply #8 on: April 11, 2011, 05:28:51 AM »
Quote from: Carnut on April 11, 2011, 04:42:02 AM
Twyford?  Anything to do with Bill Buckle?
Nothing to do with Bill Buckle AFAIK.
Not Twyford but you are in the right county.
It's a former village only a few miles to the west.
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Re: MJW #193
« Reply #9 on: April 11, 2011, 05:48:39 AM »
Basildon?
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Re: MJW #193
« Reply #10 on: April 11, 2011, 05:55:54 AM »
Suburb of Reading?  Whitley?
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Re: MJW #193
« Reply #11 on: April 11, 2011, 06:41:17 AM »
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Re: MJW #193
« Reply #12 on: April 11, 2011, 06:42:10 AM »
Quote from: Carnut on April 11, 2011, 05:55:54 AM
Suburb of Reading?  Whitley?
Now a suburb of Reading but not Whitley
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Re: MJW #193
« Reply #13 on: April 11, 2011, 06:50:12 AM »
Southcote?
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Re: MJW #193
« Reply #14 on: April 11, 2011, 07:16:32 AM »
Caversham?
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Re: MJW #193
« Reply #15 on: April 11, 2011, 07:19:32 AM »
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Re: MJW #193
« Reply #16 on: April 11, 2011, 07:20:57 AM »
Quote from: Carnut on April 11, 2011, 07:16:32 AM
Caversham?
Caversham is correct
....and the year?
Locked for you
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Re: MJW #193
« Reply #17 on: April 12, 2011, 04:39:04 AM »
Thanks for the lock woodinsight, but I have been unable to find anything at all about this car.
I can find no mention in any books nor will Google yield any results.
It looks a bit similar to the Buchanan, but not quite similar enough to have used the body.
Nor does it seem to have been made by the same people.
It's clearly named after the Caversham racetrack in Western Australia rather than a Berkshire village, but I can't find that it ever raced there.  Caversham's heyday was the 1950s and it finally closed in 1968.
I reckon it must have been made around the same time as the first Buchanans, around 1958?
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Re: MJW #193
« Reply #18 on: April 12, 2011, 05:44:11 AM »
The actual date of this car is 1956 - close enough so the point is yours.

The Caversham was a product of Pinnar Plastics of Gosnells, Perth, Western Australia in the mid-1950s.
Apparently 5 were built on either an Austin A40 or a Standard Vanguard base.
I doubt if the car was ever used on the track with such humble mechanicals.
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Re: MJW #193
« Reply #19 on: April 12, 2011, 05:58:46 AM »
Quote from: woodinsight on April 12, 2011, 05:44:11 AM
The actual date of this car is 1956 - close enough so the point is yours.

The Caversham was a product of Pinnar Plastics of Gosnells, Perth, Western Australia in the mid-1950s.
Apparently 5 were built on either an Austin A40 or a Standard Vanguard base.
I doubt if the car was ever used on the track with such humble mechanicals.

Thanks woodinsight!
You'd be surprised what raced at Caversham in the 1950s!
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