Topic: Solved - MJW #826 - Cripps Cadillac V8 Special 1950

[woodinsight]

Identify this sports racing machine by supplying the name of the builder, what it was based on, engine used and the year it was built.

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[Allan L]

I should know, but don't so will have to speculate.
It looks like the Semicircle at Prescott hillclimb and it must be pretty early in the course's history to have spectators standing in the scene of the accident like that.
Therefore it must be 1938 or '39.
I originally though it was one of Sydney Allard's early cars, perhaps based on a V8 Ford chassis possibly with V12 Lincoln engine, but I now think it isn't quite right for that.
Over to someone else, then.

[woodinsight]

I should know, but don't so will have to speculate.
It looks like the Semicircle at Prescott hillclimb and it must be pretty early in the course's history to have spectators standing in the scene of the accident like that.
Therefore it must be 1938 or '39.
I originally though it was one of Sydney Allard's early cars, perhaps based on a V8 Ford chassis possibly with V12 Lincoln engine, but I now think it isn't quite right for that.
Over to someone else, then.

As I didn't ask for the venue I can tell you it was taken at Brunton in the 1950s.
The car is American-based but not with Ford or Lincoln parts and was built post WW II.

[Allan L]

Hey-ho!

I still think the spectators' location shows a pre-war attitude to safety - now I look closer, they do have a 1950s look.

[james@bristolengineering]

Identify this sports racing machine by supplying the name of the builder, what it was based on, engine used and the year it was built.

The Bellamy Special, Ford V8 based built 1937 by Leslie Bellamy First registered  GMD 1 now KUB 300 owned and still campaigned by Mark Brett.

[woodinsight]

Identify this sports racing machine by supplying the name of the builder, what it was based on, engine used and the year it was built.

The Bellamy Special, Ford V8 based built 1937 by Leslie Bellamy First registered  GMD 1 now KUB 300 owned and still campaigned by Mark Brett.

Not that one.....
This one was built post WW II using an American chassis and a different make of American engine - neither of which is Ford.

[woodinsight]

Time for a clue - the engine was a 5.3 litre Cadillac when it was shown in the photo

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[RayTheRat]

I think I've identified this car as the "Cripps Special."  I've found the names (initials) J.A.F and W.L Cripps associated with it at the 1951 Gosport AC Speed Trials, although I couldn't find any association with Brunton. 

After that, I've run into a brick wall.  Imagine googling "cripps (or crips) special"....if that's not clear to ya, the crips are a buncha gansta hoods...the ones with the blue hankies.  It kinda clutters up the results.  I think someone else had a similar problem with another search string...but my memory issues are acting up and making things fuzzy and causing me to write long, stream-of-consciousness, run-on sentences.  Sorry.

RtR

[woodinsight]

I think I've identified this car as the "Cripps Special."  I've found the names (initials) J.A.F and W.L Cripps associated with it at the 1951 Gosport AC Speed Trials, although I couldn't find any association with Brunton. 

After that, I've run into a brick wall.  Imagine googling "cripps (or crips) special"....if that's not clear to ya, the crips are a buncha gansta hoods...the ones with the blue hankies.  It kinda clutters up the results.  I think someone else had a similar problem with another search string...but my memory issues are acting up and making things fuzzy and causing me to write long, stream-of-consciousness, run-on sentences.  Sorry.

RtR

Well done Ray, glad you managed to get through the results clutter.....
The car was based on a Chrysler chassis and was completed in 1950.

[RayTheRat]

Thank you.  It was a long search, but I guess that's why I keep playing along.