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Solved - NEH 2971: KM-300 Lotus by North Strathfield Service Station
« on: September 13, 2013, 07:23:56 AM »
What's this, bodied by whom, when - for 1 point?:

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Re: NEH 2971
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2013, 09:06:38 AM »
Experts?
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Re: NEH 2971
« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2013, 05:58:47 AM »
Buckler?
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Re: NEH 2971
« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2013, 07:32:45 AM »
Or Mistral?
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Re: NEH 2971
« Reply #4 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..)
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Re: NEH 2971
« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2013, 05:14:57 AM »
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Re: NEH 2971
« Reply #6 on: October 07, 2013, 06:58:45 AM »
If the Mistral body fits, the base chassis can't be too big. MG T-series?
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Re: NEH 2971
« Reply #7 on: October 07, 2013, 09:13:41 AM »
Aussie K-M 300 by Lotus Cars, 1957
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Re: NEH 2971
« Reply #8 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.
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Re: NEH 2971
« Reply #9 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!:
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