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Back to historic motor sport. What is this car, and who is driving it?
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Re: NIC #252
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2014, 06:05:32 AM »
Experts?
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Re: NIC #252
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2014, 04:29:31 PM »
German ?

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Re: NIC #252
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2014, 06:46:39 PM »
German ?

The colour suggests it is, but it isn't!
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Re: NIC #252
« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2014, 03:53:07 PM »
British?
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Re: NIC #252
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2014, 06:47:49 PM »
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Re: NIC #252
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2014, 05:30:00 PM »
Any Riley connection?
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Re: NIC #252
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2014, 06:52:35 PM »
Any Riley connection?

No Riley connection at all.
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Re: NIC #252
« Reply #8 on: August 02, 2014, 03:58:14 PM »
MG based?
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Re: NIC #252
« Reply #9 on: August 02, 2014, 06:58:42 PM »
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Re: NIC #252
« Reply #10 on: August 07, 2014, 07:15:04 PM »
A long, blind shot:  Is it Raymond mays in the Vauxhall-Villiers?
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Re: NIC #252
« Reply #11 on: August 08, 2014, 04:46:14 AM »
A long, blind shot:  Is it Raymond mays in the Vauxhall-Villiers?

Now that really was a long,blind shot! We've had that car before, and I solved it!

Much smaller car.
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Re: NIC #252
« Reply #12 on: August 21, 2014, 03:30:19 PM »
Small - not MG.  Austin 7 based?
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Re: NIC #252
« Reply #13 on: August 21, 2014, 06:51:18 PM »
Small - not MG.  Austin 7 based?

Not Austin either, but you're getting in the right direction.
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Re: NIC #252
« Reply #14 on: September 17, 2014, 07:00:27 PM »
Wolseley based?
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Re: NIC #252
« Reply #15 on: September 18, 2014, 06:12:07 AM »
Wolseley based?

Not that marque either, but you're still on the right lines.
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Re: NIC #252
« Reply #16 on: September 18, 2014, 10:34:03 AM »
Another Morris?
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Re: NIC #252
« Reply #17 on: September 18, 2014, 10:57:52 AM »
Another Morris?

Yes! What was the car known as, and who is driving it?
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Re: NIC #252
« Reply #18 on: September 29, 2014, 04:14:13 PM »
Is it a woman driver?  Kay Petre?
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Re: NIC #252
« Reply #19 on: September 29, 2014, 06:52:47 PM »
Is it a woman driver?  Kay Petre?

Yes, a woman driver. IMO not as well-known as Kay Petre, but she was from a well-known family, and married a well-known man!
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Re: NIC #252
« Reply #20 on: October 01, 2014, 05:35:12 PM »
Is the driver Gwenda Glubb/ Janson/ Stewart/ Hawkes ?
And the car the something Special?
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Re: NIC #252
« Reply #21 on: October 01, 2014, 06:52:02 PM »
Is the driver Gwenda Glubb/ Janson/ Stewart/ Hawkes ?
And the car the something Special?

Not her. And the car was not referred to as an anything "special".
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Re: NIC #252
« Reply #22 on: November 01, 2014, 07:46:37 AM »
Easy one for the Pros.
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Re: NIC #252
« Reply #23 on: November 01, 2014, 10:20:19 AM »
It is the Skinner Special or White Minor or with arbara Bolster at the June 1937 Shelsley

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Re: NIC #252
« Reply #24 on: November 01, 2014, 08:02:55 PM »
It is the Skinner Special or White Minor or with arbara Bolster at the June 1937 Shelsley

Well done Esteban! I think Allan Lupton must be offline!

Barbara and Peter Skinner were the children of SU owner Carl Skinner and he gave them 2 very special Morris Minor cars which had been highly tuned and supercharged. Barbara's car was white and known as "The White Minor" and her brother's car was red.

By the time this photo was taken Barbara had married John Bolster.*

(*I dread to think what after-dinner stories she heard from her husband - hopefully the ladies withdrew to another room when the gentlemen had their port and cigars.)


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