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Title: Solved - NEH 2971: KM-300 Lotus by North Strathfield Service Station
Post by: Carnut on September 13, 2013, 07:23:56 AM

What's this, bodied by whom, when - for 1 point?:

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Title: Re: NEH 2971
Post by: Carnut on September 23, 2013, 09:06:38 AM

Experts?

Title: Re: NEH 2971
Post by: D-type on September 24, 2013, 05:58:47 AM

Buckler?

Title: Re: NEH 2971
Post by: Oswald on September 24, 2013, 07:32:45 AM

Or Mistral?

Title: Re: NEH 2971
Post by: Carnut on September 24, 2013, 01:15:32 PM

Quote from: D-type on September 24, 2013, 05:58:47 AM

Buckler?

Not a Buckler..

Quote from: Oswald on September 24, 2013, 07:32:45 AM

Or Mistral?

It certainly looks like a Microplas Mistral body to me, although the builder didn't admit that so it may just be a copy.
The answer I'm looking for doesn't include any reference to the Mistral though; I need the underpinnings and builder (who claimed to have made the body..)

Title: Re: NEH 2971
Post by: Carnut on October 07, 2013, 05:14:57 AM

Professionals?

Title: Re: NEH 2971
Post by: nicanary on October 07, 2013, 06:58:45 AM

If the Mistral body fits, the base chassis can't be too big. MG T-series?

Title: Re: NEH 2971
Post by: dzima1985 on October 07, 2013, 09:13:41 AM

Aussie K-M 300 by Lotus Cars, 1957

Title: Re: NEH 2971
Post by: Carnut on October 07, 2013, 11:51:16 AM

That's the car.
Actuallly my source never mentioned the KM-300, just that it was a Lotus bodied in Australia by North Strathfield Service Station..  But now I see from you picture that it was called the KM-300, though it looks completely different from the KM-300 we've had before:

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=16754.msg162967#msg162967

Anyway, well done and 1 point to you.

Title: Re: NEH 2971
Post by: Carnut on October 10, 2013, 07:14:06 AM

Quote from: Carnut on October 07, 2013, 11:51:16 AM

Actuallly my source never mentioned the KM-300, just that it was a Lotus bodied in Australia by North Strathfield Service Station..  But now I see from you picture that it was called the KM-300, though it looks completely different from the KM-300 we've had before:

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=16754.msg162967#msg162967

See what I mean - the picture below is from the November 1957 issue of Australian magazine Sports Car World; read the caption!: