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Solved - NEH 2474: 1957 Devin-Triumph by Bill Hart
« on: February 22, 2013, 07:48:27 AM »
What's this car and who built it, for 1 point?

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Re: NEH 2474
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2013, 05:01:08 AM »
Experts?
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Re: NEH 2474
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2013, 05:57:09 AM »
I don't know this car:  as I see Minilite wheels, or look like ones, I think it's british...is it?
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Re: NEH 2474
« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2013, 07:13:47 AM »
USA ? If so, Devin ?
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Re: NEH 2474
« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2013, 07:16:12 AM »
Quote from: targhediferro on March 01, 2013, 05:57:09 AM
I don't know this car:  as I see Minilite wheels, or look like ones, I think it's british...is it?

The bits you can't see are British, but not the bits you can...

Quote from: mekubb on March 01, 2013, 07:13:47 AM
USA ? If so, Devin ?

...because yes, it's one of these!

See if you can find out the full details!
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Re: NEH 2474
« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2013, 07:22:50 AM »
Sorry, it's not locked. It's a Devin from 1957 fitted with a Triumph TR3 engine from 1953 by Bill Hart of Seattle.

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Re: NEH 2474
« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2013, 07:28:04 AM »
Quote from: nicanary on March 01, 2013, 07:22:50 AM
Sorry, it's not locked. It's a Devin from 1957 fitted with a Triumph TR3 engine from 1953 by Bill Hart of Seattle.

(I'm getting uber-competitive of late, stealing from others. This Autopuzzles business is making me a bad person)

Indeed it is Bill Hart's Devin-Triumph from 1957.
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Re: Solved - NEH 2474: 1957 Devin-Triumph by Bill Hart
« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2013, 09:01:11 AM »
Ahem!

The TR2 was made from 1952-55 and the TR3 from 1955-62.  So, I expect this had a TR2 engine as there wouldn't have been many secondhand TR3 engines available to a special builder in 1957
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Re: Solved - NEH 2474: 1957 Devin-Triumph by Bill Hart
« Reply #8 on: March 02, 2013, 09:35:54 AM »
Whoops ! I copied verbatim the info on the British Racecars website, in my usual haste in case I got beaten to it. Only goes to prove what we all know - don't trust the internet.

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Re: Solved - NEH 2474: 1957 Devin-Triumph by Bill Hart
« Reply #9 on: March 02, 2013, 09:43:09 AM »
I was just investigating that whilst you were posting.
I hadn't actually noticed your reference to the 1953 TR2 engine before - sorry.
I saw the site where you got the information from; they really should know better!
It was the only site I've found so far with a full description of the car, so either they meant it has a TR2 chassis and engine (they also called the chassis a 1953 TR3...) or else it was a later, perhaps crashed, TR3 base.
The only other reference I found to its engine said it was a TR5..
Funny how the passage of time clouds history, and it's also funny how errors keep getting repeated until they become the gospel truth!
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