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Solved - NEH 3194: Connaught L3 "The Kenya Car" - 1950
« on: December 24, 2013, 07:06:34 AM »
What's this, from when and what is it commonly known as - for 1 point?:

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Re: NEH 3194
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2014, 05:56:35 AM »
Experts?
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Re: NEH 3194
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2014, 09:24:39 AM »
From Britain?
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Re: NEH 3194
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2014, 10:09:15 AM »
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Re: NEH 3194
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2014, 10:33:09 AM »
1950 Connaught L3, chassis #7118. Known as the "Kenya Car" as it had a race history in that African country.
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Re: NEH 3194
« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2014, 11:36:23 AM »
Quote from: fyreline on January 07, 2014, 10:33:09 AM
1950 Connaught L3, chassis #7118. Known as the "Kenya Car" as it had a race history in that African country.

Quite so.
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Re: Solved - NEH 3194: Connaught L3 "The Kenya Car" - 1950
« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2014, 11:42:56 AM »
But it didn't look like that when it was in Kenya (as far as I can remember)
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Re: Solved - NEH 3194: Connaught L3 "The Kenya Car" - 1950
« Reply #7 on: January 07, 2014, 12:17:59 PM »
Here it is in action in Kenya.
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Re: Solved - NEH 3194: Connaught L3 "The Kenya Car" - 1950
« Reply #8 on: January 07, 2014, 12:19:08 PM »
. . . . and yet another:



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Re: Solved - NEH 3194: Connaught L3 "The Kenya Car" - 1950
« Reply #9 on: January 07, 2014, 01:43:53 PM »
Thanks, it's reassuring to see that my memory was right - no grille and smaller air intake back in the day.

- But - even if it had been identical I wouldn't have recognised it.
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