Author Topic: Solved NIC#536 - Luna-JAP of D G S Cotter (Read 13489 times)

nicanary · « **on:** January 20, 2016, 06:08:17 AM »

Please tell me what this car is called.

nicanary · « **Reply #1 on:** March 13, 2016, 07:44:28 AM »

Experts?

nicanary · « **Reply #2 on:** April 23, 2016, 05:25:18 PM »

Pros under 400 points?

Allan L · « **Reply #3 on:** May 01, 2016, 06:59:55 PM »

It looks like a Formula 3 job, so I expect it's on a well-known site but I have yet to find it.
Looks like front-drive as those look like BSA front wheels and the driver is too low for a drive-line to get past him. As it isn't Emeryson, the FWD idea doesn't help me find it.

nicanary · « **Reply #4 on:** May 02, 2016, 04:14:23 AM »

Quote from: Allan L on May 01, 2016, 06:59:55 PM

It looks like a Formula 3 job, so I expect it's on a well-known site but I have yet to find it.
Looks like front-drive as those look like BSA front wheels and the driver is too low for a drive-line to get past him. As it isn't Emeryson, the FWD idea doesn't help me find it.

It's almost certainly FWD I'd say, although the power unit is nothing to do with BSA. That certain site is worth sticking to.......

Allan L · « **Reply #5 on:** May 02, 2016, 04:52:46 AM »

The BSA unit was too large for F3 so it was probably JAP-engined. That, being the most common power for the tiddlers, also does not help.
As there are a lot of marques on that site in alphabetical order, wherever you start looking it takes a long time, so I'll perhaps come back on this some day!

nicanary · « **Reply #6 on:** May 02, 2016, 05:26:32 AM »

Quote from: Allan L on May 02, 2016, 04:52:46 AM

The BSA unit was too large for F3 so it was probably JAP-engined. That, being the most common power for the tiddlers, also does not help.
As there are a lot of marques on that site in alphabetical order, wherever you start looking it takes a long time, so I'll perhaps come back on this some day!

It was indeed JAP engined. Whichever end of the alphabet you start from, it'll take some time!

Allan L · « **Reply #7 on:** May 02, 2016, 09:34:33 AM »

Thanks for the hint and I started in the middle.
It is called Luna but they have nothing to tell us about it, except it was driven by DGS Cotter in period.
Not a common name and I wonder if the Duncan Cotter I came across racing an MG in the 1980s was a relative.

nicanary · « **Reply #8 on:** May 02, 2016, 10:50:30 AM »

Quote from: Allan L on May 02, 2016, 09:34:33 AM

Thanks for the hint and I started in the middle.
It is called Luna but they have nothing to tell us about it, except it was driven by DGS Cotter in period.
Not a common name and I wonder if the Duncan Cotter I came across racing an MG in the 1980s was a relative.

I'm pleased that you understood my clue. It's easy to spend all day on that site. I thought maybe you would use a pin to select a marque, and then we could have called it a cotter pin

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Another point to you.

nicanary · « **Reply #9 on:** May 02, 2016, 01:57:06 PM »

The car was active from 1958 to 1960 - quite astonishing really that a front-engined home-engineered car would still be built as late as that. Clearly it provided the builder with much fun, especially at "dress like Beau Geste" meetings.

D-type · « **Reply #10 on:** July 26, 2023, 05:28:46 PM »

Make, engine, formula and year (of the photo) please

D-type · « **Reply #11 on:** August 02, 2023, 05:41:22 AM »

Experts?

D-type · « **Reply #12 on:** August 10, 2023, 04:35:59 PM »

Pros?

nicanary · « **Reply #13 on:** August 10, 2023, 05:18:08 PM »

Austin 7 special?

D-type · « **Reply #14 on:** August 11, 2023, 04:58:22 AM »

nicanary · « **Reply #15 on:** August 11, 2023, 07:14:23 AM »

1172 Formula ?

D-type · « **Reply #16 on:** August 11, 2023, 03:15:55 PM »

nicanary · « **Reply #17 on:** August 11, 2023, 03:20:24 PM »

I know this car from somewhere in the deep recesses of my ageing mind. Is it Reg Phillips' Fairley F3 car?

D-type · « **Reply #18 on:** August 12, 2023, 05:05:44 AM »

Dig deeper into the dark recesses. It is a 500cc Formula 3 car, but nothing to do with Reg Phillips so not a (or is it "the") Farley

nicanary · « **Reply #19 on:** August 12, 2023, 06:11:05 AM »

Is this the Luna JAP of DGSCotter ?

D-type · « **Reply #20 on:** August 12, 2023, 05:51:13 PM »

Spot on.

nicanary · « **Reply #21 on:** August 14, 2023, 11:21:35 AM »

Merged - it was one of mine and I'd completely forgotten! I think the dreaded hyphenitis struck again.

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