Author Topic: Austin 7 model Hamblin Cadet (Read 1385 times)

Mogul · « **on:** March 06, 2019, 09:27:16 AM »

What is this, based on what & year for a point.
Stay away ferom Google pictures, this is banned on AutoPuzzles. Play fair!

knewit · « **Reply #1 on:** March 09, 2019, 06:21:17 AM »

Lancia based?

Mogul · « **Reply #2 on:** March 09, 2019, 08:05:07 AM »

Allan L · « **Reply #3 on:** March 09, 2019, 12:05:53 PM »

possibly British?

Mogul · « **Reply #4 on:** March 10, 2019, 06:50:47 PM »

Allan L · « **Reply #5 on:** March 11, 2019, 07:02:18 AM »

Probably too small to be Jaguar-based, but I'll ask if it is anyway.

Mogul · « **Reply #6 on:** March 11, 2019, 07:25:24 AM »

Not Jaguar based. You asumption is correct.

D-type · « **Reply #7 on:** March 11, 2019, 03:43:21 PM »

Going through the usual suspects, is it Triumph based?

Mogul · « **Reply #8 on:** March 12, 2019, 01:41:16 AM »

Allan L · « **Reply #9 on:** March 12, 2019, 05:44:47 AM »

To me it has a 1950s/60s look - but the steering wheel looks smaller than the usual aftermarket job of that time, or perhaps my sense of perspective is wrong.

Mogul · « **Reply #10 on:** March 12, 2019, 06:03:36 AM »

It is not 1950's or 1960's..... so your sense of perspective is indeed wrong.

To be fair, the steering is not representative for the age of the car, well spotted!

Allan L · « **Reply #11 on:** March 12, 2019, 08:48:21 AM »

Ignoring the body, as I can't get any clue from what we can see, the tyres are the width and tread I associate with 1940s Dunlop Fort. The detail of the gear lever is poor but I think that would be a clue if one could see it.

Mogul · « **Reply #12 on:** March 12, 2019, 09:49:30 AM »

You are getting very close to the year it was build.

Mogul · « **Reply #13 on:** March 12, 2019, 09:55:45 AM »

Does this help?

D-type · « **Reply #14 on:** March 12, 2019, 06:11:13 PM »

Based on a 1930s Riley, built in the 1940s?

tobytwirl · « **Reply #15 on:** March 12, 2019, 08:07:24 PM »

Austin 7 based .... Hamblin?

Mogul · « **Reply #16 on:** March 13, 2019, 06:35:00 AM »

Quote from: D-type on March 12, 2019, 06:11:13 PM

Based on a 1930s Riley, built in the 1940s?

No.

Quote from: tobytwirl on March 12, 2019, 08:07:24 PM

Austin 7 based .... Hamblin?

Locked for you, please let me know more, it is base on a Austin 7, Hamblin model name? Year?

tobytwirl · « **Reply #17 on:** March 14, 2019, 12:53:48 PM »

Well the base car was usually a 1930s Austin 7, and Hamblin introduced the Mk1 Cadet bodyshell in 1958 followed by a Mk2 in 1960 that had integral rear wings. As the puzzle car does not have this feature it is a Mk1 so it is a 58 or 59 shell and could have been built at anytime thereafter. I used to have a neighbour with one and I was forever cadging a ride in a vehicle that seemed very exciting to an adolescent at the time - particularly when he sawed the nose off obliquely so that it resembled a Cooper-Bristol.

tobytwirl · « **Reply #18 on:** March 14, 2019, 01:03:50 PM »

Have now found the photo of the puzzle car which is based on a 1937 A7 and is for sale in Italy for 8000 Euros - and has also had its nose sawn off!

Mogul · « **Reply #19 on:** March 15, 2019, 07:42:21 AM »

Point to you

Carnut · « **Reply #20 on:** March 15, 2019, 08:08:23 AM »

Hamblin Cadets keep popping up but as they are all slightly different maybe they should be left as separate puzzles?
On the other hand, they are one story so maybe should all be kept together?

https://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2011-39/107-by-arunas-solved-hamblin-cadet/msg153892/#msg153892

Mogul · « **Reply #21 on:** March 16, 2019, 06:26:58 PM »

I know there were already some similar Hamblins that past the review, but as this was totally different I posted this one. Feel free to add this one together with the previous ones.

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Author Topic: Austin 7 model Hamblin Cadet (Read 1385 times)