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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2011 => Topic started by: pnegyesi on December 29, 2010, 04:13:05 AM

Title: Solved: PN #135 -- Brock Farrow's Allard-based Farrow Special
Post by: pnegyesi on December 29, 2010, 04:13:05 AM

Please identify this car correctly so I can give you a point!

Title: Re: PN #135
Post by: pnegyesi on January 09, 2011, 02:43:26 AM

Experts?

Title: Re: PN #135
Post by: pnegyesi on January 23, 2011, 12:12:25 AM

Professionals?

Title: Re: PN #135
Post by: woodinsight on January 23, 2011, 01:33:00 AM

Allard J2X 1952 possibly fitted with a Chrysler engine?

Title: Re: PN #135
Post by: pnegyesi on January 23, 2011, 01:34:40 AM

The basis was an Allard

Title: Re: PN #135
Post by: woodinsight on January 23, 2011, 02:15:28 AM

Perhaps it's Scott Beckett's Lo-Test Special based on an Allard J2X?

Title: Re: PN #135
Post by: pnegyesi on January 23, 2011, 02:51:17 AM

Not by him

Title: Re: PN #135
Post by: woodinsight on January 23, 2011, 03:01:25 AM

Ray Saidel's Oldsmobile-engined Allard J2X Le Mans?

Title: Re: PN #135
Post by: pnegyesi on January 23, 2011, 03:30:11 AM

Nope

Title: Re: PN #135
Post by: Allan L on January 23, 2011, 04:46:58 AM

Well, as said before, it looks superficially like a J2X Le Mans but the opening lines of the bonnet are more like the JR.
Unusual that it's left-handed as even those raced in the USofA were not always so. The windscreen is as found on the unstreamlined J2/J2X so perhaps it was once one of those such as Erwin Goldschmit's (he later had a JR)

Title: Re: PN #135
Post by: pnegyesi on January 23, 2011, 07:58:43 AM

I believe this was built in North America, but not in the US of A

Title: Re: PN #135
Post by: woodinsight on January 23, 2011, 11:50:47 AM

I can't find any reference to this car at the moment.
I presume it was built in Canada but I'd be surprised if it was built by the current Allard Motor Works.

Title: Re: PN #135
Post by: pnegyesi on January 23, 2011, 12:47:13 PM

It was built in Canada by an individual, not a company

Title: Re: PN #135
Post by: pnegyesi on February 26, 2011, 09:57:21 AM

Black Hole?

Title: Re: PN #135
Post by: Otto Puzzell on February 27, 2011, 08:20:26 AM

Quote from: pnegyesi on January 23, 2011, 12:47:13 PM

It was built in Canada by an individual, not a company

Would the individual be known for any other cars he or she built?

Title: Re: PN #135
Post by: pnegyesi on February 27, 2011, 10:53:20 AM

I don't think so

Title: Re: PN #135
Post by: Vincent Vell Vet on February 27, 2011, 07:41:08 PM

Lotsa Allards had Caddy mills in them, this one do?

Title: Re: PN #135
Post by: pnegyesi on February 27, 2011, 11:10:03 PM

No, this one did not have a Cadillac engine

Title: Re: PN #135
Post by: barrett on March 04, 2011, 08:51:44 AM

This is the Farrow Special, or Ford Special, built by Brock Farrow and with a Flathead Ford V8

Title: Re: PN #135
Post by: pnegyesi on March 04, 2011, 09:37:40 AM

Yes, that's all I know too