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Re: Wendax 390
« Reply #25 on: December 13, 2011, 04:32:34 AM »
A brand usually known for sporting cars?
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Re: Wendax 390
« Reply #26 on: December 13, 2011, 04:47:41 AM »
The base car brand built sports cars as well as mainstream saloons.
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Re: Wendax 390
« Reply #27 on: December 13, 2011, 04:55:48 AM »
Singer?
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Re: Wendax 390
« Reply #28 on: December 13, 2011, 04:56:29 AM »
Yes, that was the easier part
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Re: Wendax 390
« Reply #29 on: December 13, 2011, 05:15:39 AM »
Says you!  :D
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Re: Wendax 390
« Reply #30 on: December 13, 2011, 05:29:38 AM »
Any MG bits?
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Re: Wendax 390
« Reply #31 on: December 13, 2011, 05:33:14 AM »
Not that I know of
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Re: Wendax 390
« Reply #32 on: December 13, 2011, 09:48:16 AM »
 :)
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Re: Wendax 390
« Reply #33 on: December 13, 2011, 10:59:38 AM »
Sintin?
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Re: Wendax 390
« Reply #34 on: December 13, 2011, 11:36:43 AM »
 ;D Nothing!
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Re: Wendax 390
« Reply #35 on: December 13, 2011, 01:09:56 PM »
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Re: Wendax 390
« Reply #36 on: December 13, 2011, 01:15:13 PM »
Was it published in a German oldtimer mag?
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Re: Wendax 390
« Reply #37 on: December 13, 2011, 01:16:54 PM »
I don't think so
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Re: Wendax 390
« Reply #38 on: December 13, 2011, 02:32:56 PM »
Hoare?
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Re: Wendax 390
« Reply #39 on: December 13, 2011, 02:39:30 PM »
No
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Re: Wendax 390
« Reply #40 on: December 13, 2011, 02:41:58 PM »
Singer-based but is it from Australia/New Zealand?
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Re: Wendax 390
« Reply #41 on: December 13, 2011, 03:05:28 PM »
British
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Re: Wendax 390
« Reply #42 on: March 12, 2012, 04:04:10 AM »
Racing into the Black Hole
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Re: Wendax 390
« Reply #43 on: March 17, 2012, 04:30:10 PM »
Austin 7 based ???
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Re: Wendax 390
« Reply #44 on: March 17, 2012, 04:35:05 PM »
No, we already had it identified as Singer-based.
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Re: Wendax 390
« Reply #45 on: March 18, 2012, 03:05:58 AM »
Maybe more pictures available?
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Re: Wendax 390
« Reply #46 on: March 18, 2012, 03:14:20 AM »
Voilą
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Re: Wendax 390
« 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.
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Re: Wendax 390
« Reply #48 on: August 17, 2012, 07:11:48 AM »
:thumbsup:
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Re: Wendax 390
« 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.  ;D
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