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Solved: PN #527 -- Andy Graybeal's Kurtis-based custom 1954
« on: August 11, 2013, 12:42:55 PM »
Please identify this car for a point. I don't think it had a name. I'd need at least the chassis, the shop where it was built, the name of the guy who designed it and a year.
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Re: PN #527
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2013, 11:08:16 AM »
Car: Kellison
Designer: Jim kellison.
Built in the 50's at Folsom, California
early Kellison's on Ford chassis with 302 inch engine
(later ones, the Kellison J-6, with Corvette C-1 chassis & Corvette engine)
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Re: PN #527
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2013, 11:53:14 AM »
not a Kellison and nothing to do with Kellison
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Re: PN #527
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2013, 08:07:54 AM »
Experts?
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Re: PN #527
« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2013, 08:26:18 AM »
Astra 300 GT, Chevrolet chassis, pontiac engine
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Re: PN #527
« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2013, 08:41:53 AM »
you still try to find a way to connect this car to Kellison. Not an Astra and there's no Chevy engine underneath it
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Re: PN #527
« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2013, 12:12:10 PM »
Austin-Healy based coupé
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Re: PN #527
« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2013, 12:35:21 PM »
no
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Re: PN #527
« Reply #8 on: August 19, 2013, 04:06:19 PM »
Let's take a step back - is the car from the USA?
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Re: PN #527
« Reply #9 on: August 20, 2013, 03:32:32 AM »
Sorrell SR-190
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Re: PN #527
« Reply #10 on: August 20, 2013, 07:11:19 AM »
from USA, not a Sorrell
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Re: PN #527
« Reply #11 on: August 25, 2013, 05:25:04 AM »
Professionals?
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Re: PN #527
« Reply #12 on: August 25, 2013, 06:34:09 AM »
It was built in 1954 at the shop of Gordon Vann, in Berkeley, California. The basis is a Kurtis chassis, and the body was designed by Andy Graybeal. (The internet has everything you need to know, if you know where to look !)
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Re: PN #527
« Reply #13 on: August 25, 2013, 07:42:50 AM »
Perfect answer!
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Re: Solved: PN #527 -- Andy Graybeal's Kurtis-based custom 1954
« Reply #14 on: August 25, 2013, 12:33:06 PM »
I was waiting for this one to move up so I could grab a hard-to-come-by Pro point..  That'll teach me not to wash my car instead of logging on to AutoPuzzles!

Apparently there's some Studebaker involved in the bodywork too.
Here's a rear view:

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Re: Solved: PN #527 -- Andy Graybeal's Kurtis-based custom 1954
« Reply #15 on: August 25, 2013, 01:03:32 PM »
the watermark of these pics is revealing BTW...
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