Author Topic: Solved: PN #245 -- Raymond Way's BMW 328 Special (Read 1299 times)

pnegyesi · « **on:** November 01, 2011, 03:54:58 AM »

Please identify the donor and the builder who created this special. Your reward will be a point

pnegyesi · « **Reply #1 on:** November 08, 2011, 01:41:29 PM »

Experts?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #2 on:** November 16, 2011, 03:05:17 AM »

Professionals?

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #3 on:** November 16, 2011, 05:11:00 AM »

Variation on a Wolseley Hornet?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #4 on:** November 16, 2011, 06:06:08 AM »

No, not related to a Wolseley

woodinsight · « **Reply #5 on:** November 18, 2011, 03:30:55 AM »

I remember seeing this car many years ago but I've forgotten what it is at the moment.

Does it have a Ford engine?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #6 on:** November 18, 2011, 04:12:29 AM »

No, it doesn't have a Ford engine

woodinsight · « **Reply #7 on:** November 18, 2011, 04:58:09 AM »

MG-engined perhaps?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #8 on:** November 18, 2011, 06:59:13 AM »

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #9 on:** November 21, 2011, 03:52:12 AM »

Is it a Singer?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #10 on:** November 21, 2011, 04:58:05 AM »

Allemano · « **Reply #11 on:** November 21, 2011, 05:04:28 AM »

younger than it looks?

faksta · « **Reply #12 on:** November 24, 2011, 02:22:01 AM »

Bugatti wheels (?) and Lea-Francis engine?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #13 on:** November 24, 2011, 02:28:18 AM »

No connection to Bugatti or Lea-Francis.

Allemano - I don't understand your question

Allan L · « **Reply #14 on:** November 24, 2011, 03:55:55 AM »

Quote from: pnegyesi on November 24, 2011, 02:28:18 AM

Allemano - I don't understand your question

I agree with the implications of Allemano's question in that although it looks like an inter-war car, it was probably built in that form in the 1950s.
The heavily profiled knock-on wheels look familiar but I can't place them, and they look to be at odds with the rest of the car.

woodinsight · « **Reply #15 on:** November 24, 2011, 07:52:16 AM »

I think the next step is to pin it down to a specific year.
Is from the first half of the 1950s?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #16 on:** November 24, 2011, 02:46:36 PM »

It is from the early 1950s.

Carnut · « **Reply #17 on:** November 24, 2011, 03:10:46 PM »

KHX registration numbers were issued commencing September 1938.
Which probably (but not necessarily) means the car on which this is based also dates from 1938.

neilshouse · « **Reply #18 on:** November 25, 2011, 04:53:01 AM »

Is it based on a BMW?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #19 on:** November 25, 2011, 05:15:22 AM »

Now, we're getting somewhere

Yes, it is based on a BMW
And that 1938 date can't be a coincidence either...

neilshouse · « **Reply #20 on:** November 25, 2011, 05:35:46 AM »

Built by Oscar Moore?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #21 on:** November 25, 2011, 05:42:24 AM »

neilshouse · « **Reply #22 on:** November 25, 2011, 05:48:28 AM »

Ron Willis?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #23 on:** November 25, 2011, 08:40:27 AM »

There's a connection to Ron Willys, but it wasn't built by him

Wendax · « **Reply #24 on:** November 25, 2011, 09:00:32 AM »

Charles Bulmer?

BTW, Oscar Moore and Ron Willis used those light alloy wheels on their specials:

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