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Solved - MJW #708 - Amal Special 1958
« on: November 28, 2011, 10:45:16 AM »
Identity please - make, engine and year of this fragile looking sports racer for a point

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Re: MJW #708
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2011, 02:11:12 PM »
Up a gear.....

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Re: MJW #708
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2011, 08:25:50 AM »
Professional help required

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Re: MJW #708
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2011, 04:01:27 PM »
British?
A car is for life, not just for Christmas.

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Re: MJW #708
« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2011, 10:07:52 PM »
British?
No, but I have a suspicion that it originated there before it was modified/re-engined.

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Re: MJW #708
« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2011, 05:08:35 PM »
From the Commonwealth in that case.  Australia?
A car is for life, not just for Christmas.

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Re: MJW #708
« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2011, 02:08:39 AM »
From the Commonwealth in that case.  Australia?
Not Australian - it's European and quite close to the UK

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Re: MJW #708
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2012, 05:22:04 PM »
OK, since everyone is shy to answer this ( :p ), it's an Amal Special from the Netherlands. Hard to read Dutch, but guess it is DKW engined and comes from 1958.

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Re: MJW #708
« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2012, 05:33:40 PM »
OK, since everyone is shy to answer this ( :p ), it's an Amal Special from the Netherlands. Hard to read Dutch, but guess it is DKW engined and comes from 1958.
It sure is!
I'm also sure it's the same car in a later configuration as one of my unsolved puzzles with a different name and engine.
Anyway a good point for you.

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Re: Solved - MJW #708 - Amal Special 1958
« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2012, 05:43:36 PM »
I just have the source of this puzzle on my shelf :)

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Re: Solved - MJW #708 - Amal Special 1958
« Reply #10 on: January 07, 2012, 05:44:24 AM »
Why do I always forget to look first of all at THAT source when you post puzzles like that?
It's not the first time you took from that book, right?  :shiner:

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Re: Solved - MJW #708 - Amal Special 1958
« Reply #11 on: January 07, 2012, 06:52:28 AM »
Why do I always forget to look first of all at THAT source when you post puzzles like that?
It's not the first time you took from that book, right?  :shiner:
That's true - and not for the last time either!