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Re: NEH 5280
« Reply #25 on: August 10, 2018, 04:04:24 AM »
No Sprite connection.
The chassis is from the 1950s from a British marque you'll know, but they didn't make a lot of cars..
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Re: NEH 5280
« Reply #26 on: August 10, 2018, 10:56:34 AM »
Singer Roadster?
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Re: NEH 5280
« Reply #27 on: August 11, 2018, 03:47:17 AM »
Good guess but no..
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Re: NEH 5280
« Reply #28 on: August 11, 2018, 07:27:56 AM »
Well the more obvious one is Buckler …………………...
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Re: NEH 5280
« Reply #29 on: August 11, 2018, 09:58:24 AM »
Quote from: tobytwirl on August 11, 2018, 07:27:56 AM
Well the more obvious one is Buckler …………………...

It's not a Buckler  but you are getting warmer...
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Re: NEH 5280
« Reply #30 on: August 11, 2018, 06:19:56 PM »
 HRG?
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Re: NEH 5280
« Reply #31 on: August 12, 2018, 04:32:10 AM »
Is it perchance a Tojeiro chassis?
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Re: NEH 5280
« Reply #32 on: August 12, 2018, 04:37:35 AM »
Quote from: D-type on August 12, 2018, 04:32:10 AM
Is it perchance a Tojeiro chassis?

No..

Quote from: tobytwirl on August 11, 2018, 06:19:56 PM
HRG?

Not an HRG but you're getting warmer still!
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Re: NEH 5280
« Reply #33 on: August 12, 2018, 05:26:28 PM »
DELLOW?
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Re: NEH 5280
« Reply #34 on: August 12, 2018, 06:03:15 PM »
Quote from: tobytwirl on August 12, 2018, 05:26:28 PM
DELLOW?

Yes!
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Re: NEH 5280
« Reply #35 on: August 12, 2018, 07:08:23 PM »
Well now I have found it, the blurb describes it as a Dellow MKVI from 1958 which had suffered damage and had the alloy body replaced by this fibreglass Falcon unit. The engine is a one litre pre-crossflow Anglia unit.
The issue I have is that  I believed the MkVI to be Dellows last stand - it was not the familiar trials car but an attempt to be a proper 2 seater road sportscar, and as such it had a full width fibreglass body already.  I
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Re: NEH 5280
« Reply #36 on: August 12, 2018, 07:11:24 PM »
Shame that the original non too pretty was not retained
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Re: NEH 5280
« Reply #37 on: August 12, 2018, 08:33:02 PM »
oops- It was an alloy body ……..
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Re: NEH 5280
« Reply #38 on: August 13, 2018, 04:45:31 AM »
Exactly.
I imagine the original body was destroyed in the accident and was impossible to replace, hence the Falcon body instead.

The Dellow MkVI has been puzzled here before:

https://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2017-47/solved-393-by-allemano-dellow-mk-vi/msg427814/#msg427814

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