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Rookie Race Car #251 - The Jack Neal Jaguar Special
« on: July 01, 2012, 07:01:08 AM »
For one point: identify the car (the one in front) and it's builder.

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Re: Rookie Race Car #251
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2012, 06:11:49 AM »
A quick expert point?
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Re: Rookie Race Car #251
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2012, 04:12:54 AM »
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Re: Rookie Race Car #251
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2012, 04:39:22 AM »
Pros?
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Re: Rookie Race Car #251
« Reply #4 on: 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 ;D
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Re: Rookie Race Car #251
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2012, 05:01:15 AM »
I think you're spot-on ;)
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Re: Rookie Race Car #251
« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2012, 11:59:27 AM »
from New Zealand?
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Re: Rookie Race Car #251
« Reply #7 on: July 24, 2012, 02:37:45 PM »
No sir
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Re: Rookie Race Car #251
« Reply #8 on: July 24, 2012, 02:39:03 PM »
Australian?
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Re: Rookie Race Car #251
« Reply #9 on: July 24, 2012, 02:44:20 PM »
A-ha! You're on the scent!
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Re: Rookie Race Car #251
« Reply #10 on: 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.
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Re: Rookie Race Car #251
« Reply #11 on: July 25, 2012, 04:08:36 AM »
Follow that hunch
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Re: Rookie Race Car #251
« Reply #12 on: July 25, 2012, 04:39:42 AM »
Could it be the Austral Union Special fitted with a Jaguar XK120 engine?
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Re: Rookie Race Car #251
« Reply #13 on: July 25, 2012, 05:36:08 AM »
Not that one
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Re: Rookie Race Car #251
« Reply #14 on: 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.
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Re: Rookie Race Car #251
« Reply #15 on: July 25, 2012, 06:17:03 AM »
Well solved! Here's the completed car:
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