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Solved - NEH 4660: 1958 PRAD-Holden with interim sixties body
« on: May 12, 2016, 07:07:06 AM »
What's this, from when - for 1 point?:

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Re: NEH 4660
« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2016, 05:07:14 AM »
Experts?
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Re: NEH 4660
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2016, 11:21:41 AM »
Is there by any chance a connection with Tony Settember, the Emeryson/Scirocco man ?
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Re: NEH 4660
« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2016, 11:43:46 AM »
Quote from: Willie McCrum on May 25, 2016, 11:21:41 AM
Is there by any chance a connection with Tony Settember, the Emeryson/Scirocco man ?

No connection at all I'm afraid.
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Re: NEH 4660
« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2016, 06:28:20 PM »
American ?
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Re: NEH 4660
« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2016, 05:10:07 AM »
Aston Martin DBR1 related?
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Re: NEH 4660
« Reply #6 on: May 27, 2016, 04:29:18 AM »
Neither American nor anything to do with Aston-Martin..
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Re: NEH 4660
« Reply #7 on: June 27, 2016, 08:19:27 AM »
Professionals?
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Re: NEH 4660
« Reply #8 on: June 27, 2016, 08:29:32 AM »
Replica Maserati?
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Re: NEH 4660
« Reply #9 on: June 27, 2016, 08:55:41 AM »
Australian?
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Re: NEH 4660
« Reply #10 on: June 27, 2016, 09:49:10 AM »
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Re: NEH 4660
« Reply #11 on: June 27, 2016, 10:59:10 AM »
Holden power?
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Re: NEH 4660
« Reply #12 on: June 27, 2016, 11:43:39 AM »
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Re: NEH 4660
« Reply #13 on: June 27, 2016, 11:49:09 AM »
This one is driving me mad. I knew it was from Australia before it was guessed and Holden-based was an option too. I still can't find it and I know I have it somewhere. I know it's a risky question, but I have to try: is this car featured in a quite known forum/website about Australian cars or am I wasting my time?
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Re: NEH 4660
« Reply #14 on: June 27, 2016, 12:20:02 PM »
Quote from: Paul Jaray on June 27, 2016, 11:49:09 AM
This one is driving me mad. I knew it was from Australia before it was guessed and Holden-based was an option too. I still can't find it and I know I have it somewhere. I know it's a risky question, but I have to try: is this car featured in a quite known forum/website about Australian cars or am I wasting my time?

I see that site in my dreams, and reckon I know every entry.

The earlier Settember post was good - it does look an awful lot like a single-headrest WRE. I reckon the mould was taken from a Maserati of some sort!
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Re: NEH 4660
« Reply #15 on: June 27, 2016, 12:43:23 PM »
1958 Prad-Holden.

(I solved this by looking through the results of the 1958 Australian Tourist Trophy and then referring to Google Images. It doesn't look like other Prad cars, and maybe my "Maserati" theory has some basis.)
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Re: NEH 4660
« Reply #16 on: June 28, 2016, 04:23:37 AM »
Yes, that's it.
This car with its original body has been puzzled here before, but it wore this body from the early sixties on I believe.  It has now been restored to its original appearance.
Clearly it looks like a Maserati, and I suppose it's possible the body was transferred from a Maserati, but I couldn't answer in the affirmative as I have no idea where it came from.  It's a better-looking body than the original (in my opinion anyway) and the one that's back on it, but I suppose originality is everything these days...

Well done.

Another picture of the puzzle car and another picture of the original car:

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Re: Solved - NEH 4660: 1958 PRAD-Holden with interim sixties body
« Reply #17 on: June 28, 2016, 04:36:01 AM »
You have more information than I could find. I know that 2 Prad-Holdens were built, one in 1958 and one in 1960, but nothing I found revealed your answer. Shows how hard I worked!

I take back my Maserati claim - the rear is nothing like it.
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Re: Solved - NEH 4660: 1958 PRAD-Holden with interim sixties body
« Reply #18 on: June 28, 2016, 05:09:04 AM »
Quote from: nicanary on June 28, 2016, 04:36:01 AM
You have more information than I could find. I know that 2 Prad-Holdens were built, one in 1958 and one in 1960, but nothing I found revealed your answer. Shows how hard I worked!

I take back my Maserati claim - the rear is nothing like it.

Indeed; I'd forgotten I had a rear view.
A much prettier car than it was in its original and later form..
I wonder if that body survived.

Here's another picture which might be the car in its puzzle-car form?:

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