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For one point, specify the approximate year, make, and model of this race car

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Re: WTH # 052
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2012, 08:22:30 PM »
You do know this is a re-post?
It's not recent so it's OK as a Rookie puzzle but probably not beyond that..
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Re: WTH # 052
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2012, 09:03:50 PM »
Is that the Morgan SLR, 1965?

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Re: WTH # 052
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2012, 12:31:36 AM »
It is not a Morgan, and it is not a repost.  ;)


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Re: WTH # 052
« Reply #4 on: June 24, 2012, 04:07:10 AM »
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Re: WTH # 052
« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2012, 12:35:40 PM »
It is not a Morgan, and it is not a repost.  ;)



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Re: WTH # 052
« Reply #6 on: June 25, 2012, 09:29:25 AM »
I found the exact picture same calling it a Morgan SLR
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Re: WTH # 052
« Reply #7 on: June 25, 2012, 09:55:09 AM »
The internet is frequently wrong, and the image claiming this is a Morgan is incorrect.  The Morgan SLRs have exhausts on the right side.  This car has a rear exhaust.

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Re: WTH # 052
« Reply #8 on: June 25, 2012, 09:55:19 AM »
I found the exact picture same calling it a Morgan SLR
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Re: WTH # 052
« Reply #9 on: June 29, 2012, 04:41:46 PM »
They also made a Triumph SLR

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Re: WTH # 052
« Reply #10 on: June 29, 2012, 07:05:04 PM »
And the point goes to War.

My records indicate this is the 1964 Triumph SLR (Sprinzel LawrenceTune Racing).

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Re: SOLVED: WTH # 052 - 1964 Triumph SLR (Sprinzel LawrenceTune Racing)
« Reply #11 on: June 30, 2012, 02:30:31 AM »
a pic from the front? this looks like a damn'd muscular and elegant british sportscar. the looks are as sharp as an italian 60s design can be...

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Re: SOLVED: WTH # 052 - 1964 Triumph SLR (Sprinzel LawrenceTune Racing)
« Reply #12 on: June 30, 2012, 03:58:53 AM »
The front also is a near dead-ringer for the Morgan SLR - with good reason:

"Towards the end of 1963 former British Rally Champion and Racing Driver John Sprinzel joined forces with noted engineer and Morgan racer Chris Lawrence, under the Sprintzel Lawrence Racing (SLR) banner, to design and build a sports car based on a Triumph TR4 powered ladder frame Morgan +4, with a similar chassis to the one that Chris had co driven with Richard Shepherd - Barron to a class victory at Le Mans in 1962.

From what I can gather Triumph racer John Hurrell managed to secure some funding for the SLR team and after seeing Chris Spenders drawings for the proposed Williams and Pritchard built bodywork for the Morgan & Triumph SLR car John asked if a similar SLR body could be fitted to his Triumph TR4 that he had been racing since 1960.

As things worked out the Triumph with a slightly shorter chassis was the first to be taken to Williams and Pritchard to have an aluminium SLR body built around it. Neil Dangerfield is known to have been winning races in this car as late as 1967 and the Triumph SLR went down in the record books as being the last to leave the start line at Goodwood as the scratch entry in the last, handicap, race held at the Circuit before it closed in 1966.

Neil drove the Triumph SLR 31 years later at the request of Lord March on a 3 lap demonstration when the Goodwood circuit was reopened in 2006.

Note the registration SAH 137 was originally issued to a Triumph TR3A owned by Jim Hurrell who transferred the number to the Triumph TR4 that was fitted with the SLR body and later sold it to Neil"



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Re: SOLVED: WTH # 052 - 1964 Triumph SLR (Sprinzel LawrenceTune Racing)
« Reply #13 on: June 30, 2012, 04:41:54 AM »
One of the prettiest racing bodies ever imo.

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Re: SOLVED: WTH # 052 - 1964 Triumph SLR (Sprinzel LawrenceTune Racing)
« Reply #14 on: June 30, 2012, 04:58:30 AM »
A couple of comments:
As said, the TR4/SLR has rear exhausts and the Morgans have side exhausts. That has to be chance, rather than an essential part of the design, as both cars use the TR engine.
The internet site that Otto quotes tells us where SAH137 comes from, but . . .
There was a Triumph tuning firm in Leighton Buzzard called SAH Accessories and SAH were the initials of Sid (or Syd) Hurrell - one assumeds Jim Hurrell was some relative, but it'd have been Sid who  bagged the SAH registration.
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