Topic: Solved - NEH 2536: 1948 Alvis TA14 Special built by Peter Harrison early 1970s

[Carnut]

What's this, who built it, when and on what base - for 1 point?:

ANYONE FOUND GIVING ANSWERS OBTAINED BY USING GOOGLE SEARCH BY IMAGE MAY BE BANNED FOR AN INDETERMINATE PERIOD!

[Carnut]

Experts?

[targhediferro]

The radiator-mascot and the dashboard tell me Alvis...perhaps a TA 14 base?

[Carnut]

The radiator-mascot and the dashboard tell me Alvis...perhaps a TA 14 base?

You're right!  I'll lock it for you for 24 hours to see if you can find out all about it.
I did think about erasing the mascot but (stupidly maybe) decided against it!

[targhediferro]

What I found about this car is that it has been realized by Laurie Halliwell and Norman Routledge from Leeds, in 1948 or maybe using a '48 TA14 Sports base.
It took one hour and half of googling every option containing the only things I had...Alvis ta14.

[Carnut]

What I found about this car is that it has been realized by Laurie Halliwell and Norman Routledge from Leeds, in 1948 or maybe using a '48 TA14 Sports base.
It took one hour and half of googling every option containing the only things I had...Alvis ta14.

Yes, you'd think these things would pop straight up when you enter the name, but they don't always..
Well, you've got the right car, so that answers two of the four questions posed - what it is and what the base is.

But, although Halliwell and Routledge started the project to build this TA14 Special (in the 1960s actually, not in 1948, which was the year of the car they used as the base) they only actually tinkered with the engine but didn't build this body, which was added by a later owner after they had sold it unfinished!

Still some work to do therefore to find out who built the body and when..

I'll lock it for you since you've got so far.

[targhediferro]

You are right, my answer was far incomplete;  another bit of research let me know that the car had been sold incomplete in 1969 to Peter Harris who realized the 2+2 body we can see today.  The car, anyway has been modified in the years by its following owners Bill Cooper and his son Nicholas, changed of colour, and added with chrome and other oddies.
It has the #22680 and plate FVJ694 and is for sale in Germany

[Carnut]

You are right, my answer was far incomplete;  another bit of research let me know that the car had been sold incomplete in 1969 to Peter Harris who realized the 2+2 body we can see today.  The car, anyway has been modified in the years by its following owners Bill Cooper and his son Nicholas, changed of colour, and added with chrome and other oddies.
It has the #22680 and plate FVJ694 and is for sale in Germany

Better!
You've still not got the timeline quite right but you have answered the questions so the point is yours.
In fact Halliwell and Routledge sold it in 1969 to Peter Thompson, who sold it on 2 years later to Alvis Club Southern Secretary Peter Harrison (not Harris), and he, as you say, fitted the body we see today.  It took him 4 years.  He then sold it to Bill Cooper, whose widow sold it back to Peter Thompson again when Bill died in 1985, but he never used it as intended and passed it on to his son Nicholas who gave it its current paint job along with various other improvements.  He sold it to Keith Brooham (that name doesn't look right to me though..) in 1987, and it was he who added the new headlights etc and used it to attend Alvis meetings until 1994, when it was put away and used rarely.  He is now selling the car.

[targhediferro]

Thank you...an interesting history.