Author Topic: Solved - NEH 3493: Jerry Sutton's one-off Victress C3 - 1959  (Read 654 times)

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Re: NEH 3493
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2014, 04:54:34 AM »
Experts?
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Re: NEH 3493
« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2014, 08:00:41 AM »
Italian make?

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Re: NEH 3493
« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2014, 09:07:47 AM »
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Re: NEH 3493
« Reply #4 on: June 03, 2014, 10:14:41 AM »
British?

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Re: NEH 3493
« Reply #5 on: June 03, 2014, 11:01:14 AM »
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Re: NEH 3493
« Reply #6 on: June 03, 2014, 11:29:59 AM »
BMW?

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Re: NEH 3493
« Reply #7 on: June 03, 2014, 11:38:49 AM »
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Re: NEH 3493
« Reply #8 on: June 03, 2014, 11:43:08 AM »
German ?

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Re: NEH 3493
« Reply #9 on: June 03, 2014, 02:31:23 PM »
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Re: NEH 3493
« Reply #10 on: June 03, 2014, 03:18:51 PM »
Swedish?
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Re: NEH 3493
« Reply #11 on: June 03, 2014, 06:34:33 PM »
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Re: NEH 3493
« Reply #12 on: June 04, 2014, 02:54:15 AM »
Europeen?

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Re: NEH 3493
« Reply #13 on: June 04, 2014, 03:54:09 AM »
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Re: NEH 3493
« Reply #14 on: June 06, 2014, 11:22:14 AM »
Jerry Sutton's Victress C3. 1954 Ford chassis, 1958 Ford bumper. Hot Rod magazine July 1960.

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Re: NEH 3493
« Reply #15 on: June 06, 2014, 11:51:24 AM »
That's it, yes.
Quite different front from most of them.
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Re: Solved - NEH 3493: Jerry Sutton's one-off Victress C3 - 1960
« Reply #16 on: June 06, 2014, 12:32:20 PM »
Is this not a LaDawri Castillian, which was a formerly called a Victress C-3 prior to the sale of the manufacturer to LaDawri?

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Re: Solved - NEH 3493: Jerry Sutton's one-off Victress C3 - 1960
« Reply #17 on: June 06, 2014, 02:12:12 PM »
Is this not a LaDawri Castillian, which was a formerly called a Victress C-3 prior to the sale of the manufacturer to LaDawri?

LaDawri didn't acquire Victress until 1961.
This car features on the Forgotten Fiberglass site and is descrived as a 1960 Victress.
Sure it's not a Castillian.
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