Topic: Solved - MJW #583 - Riley Kestrel 1936 with a 1954 RGS body

[woodinsight]

Dick Shattock's RGS Atalanta cars were so-called because he used Atalanta chassis, or chassis parts.  The bodies were just RGS not RGS Atalanta.
The Atalanta chassis looked like this:


That one has a supercharged Gough engine which Shattock wouldn't have used. I remember a Jaguar-engined sports-racer, but not this car which looks as if it may have had a Bristol engine.

Sorry Allan, the body as you say is RGS not RGS Atalanta.

[Allemano]

Austin?

[Carnut]

Standard?

[Allan L]

So this is an RGS body, rather than an RGS car?
Pre-war chassis that would be about the right size might be a Riley 12/4

[woodinsight]

So this is an RGS body, rather than an RGS car?
Pre-war chassis that would be about the right size might be a Riley 12/4

Riley is correct. The year is 1936. I have it as a Kestrel base which presumably includes the 12/4.
The RGS body apparently dates from 1954.
One point to you Allan, well done.....

[Allan L]

Goodness me!
But have we solved the identity of the engine?  Riley Kestrel, as you say included a 12/4 version which was probably the best.

[woodinsight]

Goodness me!
But have we solved the identity of the engine?  Riley Kestrel, as you say included a 12/4 version which was probably the best.

My source tells me the base car was a 1936 SS 27 Riley Kestrel but nothing more relating to the engine.