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Re: MJW #616
« Reply #25 on: October 12, 2011, 06:09:46 PM »
Quote from: woodinsight on October 12, 2011, 01:58:14 PM
Here's a view of the car as I believe it was originally


That looks like a Connaught to me, but it can't be since you said they only made two...
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Re: MJW #616
« Reply #26 on: October 13, 2011, 03:13:20 AM »
Aston Martin
WAM
Cooper-Bristol
Lagonda
HRG
Buchanan
Arnott
Golding-Cooper

The name is two words, the first the make/builder and the second the chassis.
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Re: MJW #616
« Reply #27 on: October 13, 2011, 06:26:02 AM »
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Re: MJW #616
« Reply #28 on: October 13, 2011, 06:38:02 AM »
Nash-Healey?
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Re: MJW #616
« Reply #29 on: October 13, 2011, 10:42:53 AM »
Neither Lester-Riley or Nash-Healey.

Time for another clue -
First word -a----
Second word -o-----
(the dashes are the missing letters)
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Re: MJW #616
« Reply #30 on: October 13, 2011, 11:37:14 AM »
Jaguar-Tojeiro?
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Re: MJW #616
« Reply #31 on: October 13, 2011, 11:51:58 AM »
No, actually I think this is the 1954 Halton-Tojeiro registered YKX 2.

The body was donated by Rochdale Panels and it had been designed originally to fit a Connaught ASLR (no wonder I thought it looked like a Connaught!), but the finished car "had a passing resemblance to an Aston-Martin DB3S".  It had a Climax engine.

The name comes from RAF Halton, whose apprentices' Halton Racing Car Club built the car using a chassis supplied by John Tojeiro.

The car was raced extensively in club meetings from 1956 to 1960 and still exists - it was For Sale recently, when for some reason it was described as a "Hailton-Tojeiro Climax" with the extra 'i' in it.
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Re: MJW #616
« Reply #32 on: October 13, 2011, 12:05:52 PM »
Quote from: Carnut on October 13, 2011, 11:51:58 AM
No, actually I think this is the 1954 Halton-Tojeiro registered YKX 2.

The body was donated by Rochdale Panels and it had been designed originally to fit a Connaught ASLR (no wonder I thought it looked like a Connaught!), but the finished car "had a passing resemblance to an Aston-Martin DB3S".  It had a Climax engine.

The name comes from RAF Halton, whose apprentices' Halton Racing Car Club built the car using a chassis supplied by John Tojeiro.

The car was raced extensively in club meetings from 1956 to 1960 and still exists - it was For Sale recently, when for some reason it was described as a "Hailton-Tojeiro Climax" with the extra 'i' in it.
Bingo, that's the car.
Well done Carnut and a well-earned Pro point for you.

Two more photos, one of the unaltered puzzle photo and another new one.
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