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Solved - NEH 3083: Gazelle Roadster by James F. Craig - 1953
« on: November 05, 2013, 09:53:49 AM »
I'll swear this one has appeared before, but I can't find it so here it is (maybe again!)
Identify it correctly, who built it, what it's based on and what powers it, for 1 point:

ANYONE FOUND GIVING ANSWERS OBTAINED BY USING GOOGLE SEARCH BY IMAGE MAY BE BANNED FOR AN INDETERMINATE PERIOD!
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Re: NEH 3083
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2013, 05:52:30 AM »
Experts?
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Re: NEH 3083
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2013, 03:24:52 PM »
1953 James Craig's  Gazelle/Navajo. Fibreglass body on Ford chassis, 170 hp Mercury engine..
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Re: NEH 3083
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2013, 05:35:19 PM »
Quote from: Hiawatha on November 15, 2013, 03:24:52 PM
1953 James Craig's  Gazelle/Navajo. Fibreglass body on Ford chassis, 170 hp Mercury engine..

Indeed. Very good.
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Re: Solved - NEH 3083: Gazelle Roadster by James F. Craig - 1953
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2013, 05:37:54 PM »
I wonder what Sir William Lyons would have made of it - seems we've seen a similar-looking car somewhere before. They do say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Re: Solved - NEH 3083: Gazelle Roadster by James F. Craig - 1953
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2013, 05:41:53 PM »
Quote from: nicanary on November 17, 2013, 05:37:54 PM
I wonder what Sir William Lyons would have made of it - seems we've seen a similar-looking car somewhere before. They do say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

I think he would have thought it a copy, but I think he would be a bit out of order because his own design was something of a copy already...!  I can't remember exactly what of otherwise I would have posted it, but I found it last week and wondered why more hasn't been made of the fact that it resembled the later XK120 so much.  I'll have to try to find it again.
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Re: Solved - NEH 3083: Gazelle Roadster by James F. Craig - 1953
« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2013, 06:22:26 PM »
Wasn't the XK120 design supposed to have been influenced by the BMW 328 Mille Miglia?
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Re: NEH 3083
« Reply #7 on: November 18, 2013, 04:00:25 AM »
Quote from: Carnut on November 17, 2013, 05:35:19 PM
Quote from: Hiawatha on November 15, 2013, 03:24:52 PM
1953 James Craig's  Gazelle/Navajo. Fibreglass body on Ford chassis, 170 hp Mercury engine..

Indeed. Very good.

In 1953 there was the Gazelle; in 1954 there was the Navajo. The Navajo, with its reworked grill, was a puzzle before:

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=6062.msg41737#msg41737
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Re: Solved - NEH 3083: Gazelle Roadster by James F. Craig - 1953
« Reply #8 on: November 18, 2013, 06:38:31 AM »
Quote from: Tom_I on November 17, 2013, 06:22:26 PM
Wasn't the XK120 design supposed to have been influenced by the BMW 328 Mille Miglia?

May well have been, but I found something else that at first glance could have been an XK120 but pre-dated it by some years..
I'll have to have a look for it if I get the time!
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Re: Solved - NEH 3083: Gazelle Roadster by James F. Craig - 1953
« Reply #9 on: November 18, 2013, 06:54:37 AM »
Maybe this is what you were thinking of. In addition, the shape of the XK120 Coupe was heavily influenced by Paul Pycroft's specially built SS100, in respect of the hardtop.
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