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Solved - MJW #488 Redex Special Cooper-Bristol 1950s
« on: June 18, 2011, 10:17:57 AM »
What was this single-seater known as and where did it race?
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Re: MJW #488
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2011, 01:02:09 AM »
Single-seater Experts now have a chance to solve this one.
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Re: MJW #488
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2011, 02:22:01 AM »
italian?
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Re: MJW #488
« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2011, 02:24:24 AM »
Not Italian.....
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Re: MJW #488
« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2011, 12:16:35 PM »
Australian?
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Re: MJW #488
« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2011, 12:50:53 PM »
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Re: MJW #488
« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2011, 04:50:47 PM »
Let's start with the best of the Australian cars - The Maybach Special?
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Re: MJW #488
« Reply #7 on: June 26, 2011, 04:52:45 PM »
Quote from: D-type on June 26, 2011, 04:50:47 PM
Let's start with the best of the Australian cars - The Maybach Special?
Not the Maybach
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Re: MJW #488
« Reply #8 on: July 01, 2011, 07:32:57 AM »
Pros?
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Re: MJW #488
« Reply #9 on: July 05, 2011, 05:37:58 PM »
Next Australian racing car: the Tornado?
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Re: MJW #488
« Reply #10 on: July 07, 2011, 11:11:20 AM »
Quote from: D-type on July 05, 2011, 05:37:58 PM
Next Australian racing car: the Tornado?
Not a Tornado
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Re: MJW #488
« Reply #11 on: July 09, 2011, 10:26:03 AM »
This is the Redex Special, a Cooper Bristol, tuned and raced by Jack Brabham in the early 1950s. The puzzle photograph was published in 1974.

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Re: MJW #488
« Reply #12 on: July 09, 2011, 11:55:03 AM »
Quote from: pnegyesi on July 09, 2011, 10:26:03 AM
This is the Redex Special, a Cooper Bristol, tuned and raced by Jack Brabham in the early 1950s. The puzzle photograph was published in 1974.

woodinsight - I know you have computer problems, but I am so happy to find it
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Re: Solved - MJW #488 Redex Special Cooper-Bristol 1950s
« Reply #13 on: July 10, 2011, 05:39:30 AM »
Oh my God! And I knew that one! But, I said to myself, "Noooo, they wouldn't use Brabham's car. It's too well known. This car just looks like Brabham's car."  :'(
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Re: Solved - MJW #488 Redex Special Cooper-Bristol 1950s
« Reply #14 on: July 10, 2011, 03:15:11 PM »
I went the other way.  As Brabham's modifications to the standard Cooper-Bristol were largely internal, I never thought of the Redex Special as being an Australian car so I never even considered it and went looking for an Australian-built special. 
Having said that, I should still have recognised it  :sigh:
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Re: Solved - MJW #488 Redex Special Cooper-Bristol 1950s
« Reply #15 on: July 10, 2011, 05:26:38 PM »
I too should have recognised it, but the coil spring/wishbone suspension misled me - didn't know the RedEx hadn't the standard transverse leaf springs.
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