Author Topic: Solved: Wendax 390 - Harbinson Special (Read 3894 times)

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #25 on:** December 13, 2011, 04:32:34 AM »

A brand usually known for sporting cars?

Wendax · « **Reply #26 on:** December 13, 2011, 04:47:41 AM »

The base car brand built sports cars as well as mainstream saloons.

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #27 on:** December 13, 2011, 04:55:48 AM »

Singer?

Wendax · « **Reply #28 on:** December 13, 2011, 04:56:29 AM »

Yes, that was the easier part

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #29 on:** December 13, 2011, 05:15:39 AM »

Says you!

woodinsight · « **Reply #30 on:** December 13, 2011, 05:29:38 AM »

Any MG bits?

Wendax · « **Reply #31 on:** December 13, 2011, 05:33:14 AM »

Not that I know of

SACO · « **Reply #32 on:** December 13, 2011, 09:48:16 AM »

woodinsight · « **Reply #33 on:** December 13, 2011, 10:59:38 AM »

Sintin?

SACO · « **Reply #34 on:** December 13, 2011, 11:36:43 AM »

Nothing!

Wendax · « **Reply #35 on:** December 13, 2011, 01:09:56 PM »

Quote from: woodinsight on December 13, 2011, 10:59:38 AM

Sintin?

No

Allemano · « **Reply #36 on:** December 13, 2011, 01:15:13 PM »

Was it published in a German oldtimer mag?

Wendax · « **Reply #37 on:** December 13, 2011, 01:16:54 PM »

I don't think so

woodinsight · « **Reply #38 on:** December 13, 2011, 02:32:56 PM »

Hoare?

Wendax · « **Reply #39 on:** December 13, 2011, 02:39:30 PM »

woodinsight · « **Reply #40 on:** December 13, 2011, 02:41:58 PM »

Singer-based but is it from Australia/New Zealand?

Wendax · « **Reply #41 on:** December 13, 2011, 03:05:28 PM »

British

Wendax · « **Reply #42 on:** March 12, 2012, 04:04:10 AM »

Racing into the Black Hole

D-type · « **Reply #43 on:** March 17, 2012, 04:30:10 PM »

Austin 7 based

Wendax · « **Reply #44 on:** March 17, 2012, 04:35:05 PM »

No, we already had it identified as Singer-based.

Allemano · « **Reply #45 on:** March 18, 2012, 03:05:58 AM »

Maybe more pictures available?

Wendax · « **Reply #46 on:** March 18, 2012, 03:14:20 AM »

Voilà

woodinsight · « **Reply #47 on:** August 17, 2012, 07:08:46 AM »

Found this one while researching one of faksta's puzzles this morning - not surprising really as I think many puzzles are solved that way.

The car is the Harbinson Special built by Robert Harbinson in 1951.
He created a one-off sports aluminium body and mounted it on a Singer Nine Bantam chassis.
The car was built for his own personal use.

As a short postscript, Harbinson left the UK in 1954 bound for Minneapolis in the USA. On his stopover in New York he was tracked down by Gordon "Tippy" Lipe to construct a sports body and install a Porsche engine in Lipe's Cooper.
This car - Cooper Mk VII chassis no.5 - is well known today racing in Historics driven by Cameron Healy (it was also a recent puzzle on this site).

The whereabouts of the Harbinson Special are unknown since an article appeared in Motor Sport magazine of January 1954.

Allemano · « **Reply #48 on:** August 17, 2012, 07:11:48 AM »

Wendax · « **Reply #49 on:** August 17, 2012, 07:19:02 AM »

Well done, Malcolm.

I think I stumbled across the Harbinson Special when looking for the "Pooper" (Porsche-Cooper) last year.

Two well-deserved points for you, and one more car escaped the hole.

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