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What is this for a point?
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Re: Djetset #508
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2011, 05:06:53 PM »
Going up...
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Re: Djetset #508
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2011, 05:10:30 PM »
Lanchester?
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Re: Djetset #508
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2011, 05:12:11 PM »
Sorry, but not a Lanchester.
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Re: Djetset #508
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2011, 05:19:26 PM »
This is, if I remember correctly, a proposal for the 'big' Morris Minor which eventually became the Oxford. I think this particular car was styled by Gerald Palmer and dates from the very early 1950s. This is all from my rather shaky memory though so I'm probably wrong!

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Re: Djetset #508
« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2011, 05:20:52 PM »
Sorry Barrett, but your memory must be shaky tonight as this is not a proposal for any Morris model.
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Re: Djetset #508
« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2011, 05:51:51 PM »
Ha!
Well in that case, is it what it looks like, a styling clay for the Austin A70 Hereford?

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Re: Djetset #508
« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2011, 06:07:28 PM »
Not an Austin either!
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Re: Djetset #508
« Reply #8 on: May 23, 2011, 06:41:16 PM »
It is British isn't it?
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Re: Djetset #508
« Reply #9 on: May 24, 2011, 03:24:03 PM »
Sunbeam-Talbot?

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Re: Djetset #508
« Reply #10 on: May 24, 2011, 03:55:45 PM »
Just a guess - was this a proposal for the Rover P4?  :-\

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Re: Djetset #508
« Reply #11 on: May 24, 2011, 06:22:10 PM »
It is British, but it's not a Sunbeam-Talbot, nor a Rover.
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Re: Djetset #508
« Reply #12 on: May 24, 2011, 06:36:29 PM »
Triumph?

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Re: Djetset #508
« Reply #13 on: May 24, 2011, 06:39:07 PM »
Singer?
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Re: Djetset #508
« Reply #14 on: May 24, 2011, 08:39:48 PM »
Is it from one of the other BMC marques? Perhaps a Wolesley?

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Re: Djetset #508
« Reply #15 on: May 25, 2011, 05:00:23 AM »
Not a Triumph, Singer or any BMC marque!
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Re: Djetset #508
« Reply #16 on: May 25, 2011, 08:07:09 AM »
Ford Consul/Zephyr/Zodiac proposal?

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Re: Djetset #508
« Reply #17 on: May 25, 2011, 02:25:35 PM »
A pre-BMC Riley concept?

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Re: Djetset #508
« Reply #18 on: May 25, 2011, 03:03:19 PM »
Hillman proposal for a 4-door Minx convertible
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Re: Djetset #508
« Reply #19 on: May 25, 2011, 04:26:51 PM »
Barrett has cracked it, as it is one of the original styling proposals for the Mark 1 British Ford Consul Zephyr/ Zodiac.  Another point to Barrett.
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