Rookie Race Car #251 - The Jack Neal Jaguar Special

Otto Puzzell · July 01, 2012, 07:01:08 AM

For one point: identify the car (the one in front) and it's builder.

Only a complete and specific answer will earn a point!

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Otto Puzzell · July 08, 2012, 06:11:49 AM

A quick expert point?

Otto Puzzell · July 16, 2012, 04:12:54 AM

Up

Otto Puzzell · July 23, 2012, 04:39:22 AM

Pros?

Allan L · July 23, 2012, 04:51:00 AM

Built by one of those chaps who lined half a gross of holes up in a jig and welded them together

Otto Puzzell · July 23, 2012, 05:01:15 AM

I think you're spot-on

D-type · July 24, 2012, 11:59:27 AM

from New Zealand?

Otto Puzzell · July 24, 2012, 02:37:45 PM

No sir

woodinsight · July 24, 2012, 02:39:03 PM

Australian?

Otto Puzzell · July 24, 2012, 02:44:20 PM

A-ha! You're on the scent!

Allan L · July 25, 2012, 04:01:47 AM

Hard to get a sense of scale and period. Post 1939, dated by the Ford Prefect in the background but from the wheel/tyre proportions I'd say rather later, but based on a 1930s chassis such as an SS. Can't make the engine out, but let's guess it (and the chassis) was once an SS100.

Otto Puzzell · July 25, 2012, 04:08:36 AM

Follow that hunch

woodinsight · July 25, 2012, 04:39:42 AM

Could it be the Austral Union Special fitted with a Jaguar XK120 engine?

Otto Puzzell · July 25, 2012, 05:36:08 AM

Not that one

woodinsight · July 25, 2012, 06:13:32 AM

Finally found it after an extensive search

It's the Jack Neal Jaguar Special that was fitted with a 2.5-litre SS100 Jaguar engine.
The photo shows the car whilst under construction in 1956.
I'm not sure whether the car survives today.

Otto Puzzell · July 25, 2012, 06:17:03 AM

Well solved! Here's the completed car:

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Rookie Race Car #251 - The Jack Neal Jaguar Special