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Re: Fun #88
« Reply #25 on: December 17, 2011, 04:06:33 AM »
MCM 1946?

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Re: Fun #88
« Reply #26 on: December 17, 2011, 04:13:18 AM »
Not that
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Re: Fun #88
« Reply #27 on: December 31, 2011, 03:43:28 AM »
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Holden based?
   

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Re: Fun #88
« Reply #28 on: January 04, 2012, 06:15:46 AM »
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Black hole?

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Re: Fun #88
« Reply #29 on: February 13, 2012, 05:51:00 AM »
Today only (13 February), three points on offer for the solution.
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Re: Fun #88
« Reply #30 on: February 14, 2012, 05:34:41 AM »
Was this built prior to 1955?
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Re: Fun #88
« Reply #31 on: February 14, 2012, 06:00:49 AM »
It appeared in a magazine a few years after that, so, perhaps
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Re: Fun #88
« Reply #32 on: March 01, 2012, 12:53:56 PM »
The owner builder was a guy from Western Australia by the name of Ross Coxson, and get this, he was only 19 years old.
Car was built from an Holden FJ wreck, using a few non-Holden bits including a Rugby chassis and Austin A50 bonnet.

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Re: Fun #88
« Reply #33 on: March 01, 2012, 12:59:17 PM »
Excellent detective work. I think you've leveraged Joćo's recent solve of another puzzle.  8)

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Re: Fun #88
« Reply #34 on: March 01, 2012, 01:01:24 PM »
Where one Aussie special is to be found, the other one can't be far  ;D

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Re: Fun #88 - Ross Coxson's Holden FJ-based Custom
« Reply #35 on: March 01, 2012, 02:10:34 PM »
There's a third to be found in the same general area.  :lurk:
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Solved - NEH 3058: Ross Coxon Holden Sports Special - 1958
« Reply #36 on: October 15, 2013, 07:07:49 AM »
What's this, who built it and when - for 1 point?:

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Re: NEH 3058
« Reply #37 on: October 20, 2013, 10:42:43 AM »
Based on a wrecked FJ holden and built by Ross coxon "The Ross Coxon Holden Sports Car"
built 1957-58 and completed by August 1958 by Ross a signwriter. He did part of the work at Byfield Motor Body builders
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Re: NEH 3058
« Reply #38 on: October 20, 2013, 01:27:53 PM »
Based on a wrecked FJ holden and built by Ross coxon "The Ross Coxon Holden Sports Car"
built 1957-58 and completed by August 1958 by Ross a signwriter. He did part of the work at Byfield Motor Body builders
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Re: Solved - NEH 3058: Ross Coxon Holden Sports Special - 1958
« Reply #39 on: October 21, 2013, 06:36:18 AM »
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Re: Solved - NEH 3058: Ross Coxon Holden Sports Special - 1958
« Reply #40 on: November 26, 2013, 09:42:47 AM »
Merged!
Correct spelling seems to be Coxson.
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