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Solved: PN #311 -- Julian Cowan's Alf
« on: April 24, 2012, 08:42:08 AM »
Please identify this car for a point
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Re: PN #311
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2012, 06:09:49 PM »
Lotus 11?

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Re: PN #311
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2012, 10:49:00 PM »
pftnbr - let me welcome you to AutoPuzzles!

Here, nothing is what it seems, therefore this is not a Lotus 11
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Re: PN #311
« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2012, 02:57:59 PM »
Didn't think it would be that easy!

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Re: PN #311
« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2012, 07:23:10 AM »
Is it a 11 replica or based off the 11? (Or neither!)

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Re: PN #311
« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2012, 07:26:38 AM »
Neither
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Re: PN #311
« Reply #6 on: May 05, 2012, 02:50:16 AM »
Experts?
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Re: PN #311
« Reply #7 on: May 05, 2012, 03:54:41 AM »
Is it Australian?  Looks like a Holden next to it.  Australians made their own cars, with an import duty of 40% back then.

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Re: PN #311
« Reply #8 on: May 05, 2012, 06:23:27 AM »
Yes, this one is from Australia
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Re: PN #311
« Reply #9 on: May 05, 2012, 07:37:36 AM »
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Re: PN #311
« Reply #10 on: May 05, 2012, 09:36:52 AM »
I have it as a Regah-MG special.

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Re: PN #311
« Reply #11 on: May 05, 2012, 10:39:06 AM »
It is not that one
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Re: PN #311
« Reply #12 on: May 07, 2012, 05:36:28 AM »
Interests in life:  Cars, cars, cars - oh and ..er..cars

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Re: PN #311
« Reply #13 on: May 07, 2012, 05:30:55 PM »
HEA Simca ?
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Re: PN #311
« Reply #14 on: May 07, 2012, 10:59:37 PM »
I have it as a Regah-MG special.


It couldn't have been that one!:

www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=19902.0


Yeah...I realized that a short while later.  I'd forgotten where I'd found my source image.  Duh.   :-[

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Re: PN #311
« Reply #15 on: May 07, 2012, 11:18:26 PM »
Not a Hea Simca
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Re: PN #311
« Reply #16 on: May 08, 2012, 05:47:55 AM »
Elva? The ones I can remember were Lotus 23 based, though.

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Re: PN #311
« Reply #17 on: May 08, 2012, 05:51:54 AM »
Oops, I think that should have been Elfin.

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Re: PN #311
« Reply #18 on: May 08, 2012, 02:01:55 PM »
Neither
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Re: PN #311
« Reply #19 on: May 08, 2012, 03:01:45 PM »
I've found what appears to be another Aussie Lotus XI copy - the Decca Special?
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Re: PN #311
« Reply #20 on: May 09, 2012, 12:11:57 AM »
Keep looking :) - this is not a Decca
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Re: PN #311
« Reply #21 on: May 09, 2012, 03:25:29 PM »
I found something described as a Lotus BB from 1969
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Re: PN #311
« Reply #22 on: May 09, 2012, 04:04:41 PM »
There's no Lotus in the name
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Re: PN #311
« Reply #23 on: May 14, 2012, 11:59:00 AM »
Professionals?
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Re: PN #311
« Reply #24 on: May 14, 2012, 01:16:52 PM »
That's the "Alf", Julian Cowan's Ford powered Lotus II look-a-like. the picture was taken at Caversham Raceway , Western Australia in the 1960s.
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