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Solved - MJW #1099 - Brown Special 1980s with a Rolls-Royce 4-litre engine and a 1954 Motto body
« on: January 19, 2013, 05:16:12 AM »
Last one of this batch.
I don't think it's been posted as an individual puzzle before so for one point name the marque, type of engine, year and coachbuilder.
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Re: MJW #1099
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2013, 09:34:43 AM »
Experts?
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Re: MJW #1099
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2013, 12:20:34 PM »
Aston Martin DB1?
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Re: MJW #1099
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2013, 01:50:04 PM »
Quote from: frederick59 on January 23, 2013, 12:20:34 PM
Aston Martin DB1?
Not an Aston Martin...
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Re: MJW #1099
« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2013, 02:03:45 PM »
Lancia Aurelia B20 GT?
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Re: MJW #1099
« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2013, 03:06:13 PM »
But British it is ?
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Re: MJW #1099
« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2013, 03:24:13 PM »
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Re: MJW #1099
« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2013, 03:25:04 PM »
Quote from: mekubb on January 23, 2013, 03:06:13 PM
But British it is ?
The base car is British but the coachwork isn't....
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Re: MJW #1099
« Reply #8 on: January 23, 2013, 04:02:42 PM »
The poste light is a Fiat 500's one, but it's certainly non original. Is perhaps a Jowett by Farina?
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Re: MJW #1099
« Reply #9 on: January 23, 2013, 04:10:14 PM »
Quote from: targhediferro on January 23, 2013, 04:02:42 PM
The poste light is a Fiat 500's one, but it's certainly non original. Is perhaps a Jowett by Farina?
Not a Jowett and not by Farina but.....the coachwork is Italian!
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Re: MJW #1099
« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2013, 05:18:48 PM »
Looking at the wheels my first thought was Aston Martin as well, but the car looks smaller, but definitively from the '50. So I go for Frazer Nash, body by ???... Vignale ?
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Re: MJW #1099
« Reply #11 on: January 23, 2013, 05:27:07 PM »
Is it a Bristol by Touring?
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Re: MJW #1099
« Reply #12 on: January 23, 2013, 05:35:25 PM »
Coachwork is by Rocco Motto on a homebuilt chassis (previously on Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica chassis 421/100/112).
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Re: MJW #1099
« Reply #13 on: January 24, 2013, 12:32:15 AM »
Quote from: Trommel on January 23, 2013, 05:35:25 PM
Coachwork is by Rocco Motto on a homebuilt chassis (previously on Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica chassis 421/100/112).
Yes that's correct but I still had the chassis as Frazer Nash!
LOCKED for you to explain who built the chassis (I don't know) and the story behind this car.....
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Re: MJW #1099
« Reply #14 on: January 24, 2013, 06:37:09 AM »
Chassis 112 was rebodied as a coupe by CA-MO in 1954 - this body was removed in 1980, the car was rebuilt as a Le Mans Replica (as originally built) by Crosthwaite & Gardiner with a body by Peels of Surbiton.

In the mid-'80s the Motto body was put onto a home-made chassis and fitted with a Rolls Royce 4-litre engine from a Vanden Plas Princess (apparently by someone called David Brown from Lincoln).
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Re: MJW #1099
« Reply #15 on: January 24, 2013, 10:33:55 AM »
Quote from: Trommel on January 24, 2013, 06:37:09 AM
Chassis 112 was rebodied as a coupe by CA-MO in 1954 - this body was removed in 1980, the car was rebuilt as a Le Mans Replica (as originally built) by Crosthwaite & Gardiner with a body by Peels of Surbiton.

In the mid-'80s the Motto body was put onto a home-made chassis and fitted with a Rolls Royce 4-litre engine from a Vanden Plas Princess (apparently by someone called David Brown from Lincoln).
That's very interesting Trommel and you certainly deserve the point for that information.
I suppose it would be fair to call this car now a 1980s Brown Special with a Rolls-Royce 4-litre engine and a Motto body from 1954.

Here are two photos of the car -
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