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Re: NIC#1025
« Reply #25 on: February 25, 2019, 12:44:01 PM »
Quote from: D-type on February 25, 2019, 12:12:36 PM
Remembering we are looking for a very obscure make, rarer than a Leyland 8, is it based on a Railton?

Sorry if my previous answers misled anyone - the base car is not obscure, just the name of the builder! Not a Railton, more mundane.
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Re: NIC#1025
« Reply #26 on: February 25, 2019, 04:58:24 PM »
Is the base car an Austin 7 with a straight 8 engine based on two Austin 7 engines in line built by Ken Wallis?
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Re: NIC#1025
« Reply #27 on: February 26, 2019, 03:58:52 AM »
Quote from: D-type on February 25, 2019, 04:58:24 PM
Is the base car an Austin 7 with a straight 8 engine based on two Austin 7 engines in line built by Ken Wallis?

It's not the Wallis car, and it's not an Austin base.
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Re: NIC#1025
« Reply #28 on: February 26, 2019, 12:14:45 PM »
Is the chassis from an early 1920s car?
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Re: NIC#1025
« Reply #29 on: February 26, 2019, 01:11:48 PM »
Quote from: richard cuyler on February 26, 2019, 12:14:45 PM
Is the chassis from an early 1920s car?

The base car was indeed built for a few years in the 1920s.
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Re: NIC#1025
« Reply #30 on: February 26, 2019, 03:13:47 PM »
British, 1920s
Armstrong-Siddeley
Leyland
Leidart
Daimler
Alvis
RR
Railton
Austin

Could it be based on a Vauxhall?
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Re: NIC#1025
« Reply #31 on: February 26, 2019, 03:19:06 PM »
Quote from: D-type on February 26, 2019, 03:13:47 PM
British, 1920s
Armstrong-Siddeley
Leyland
Leidart
Daimler
Alvis
RR
Railton
Austin

Could it be based on a Vauxhall?

No.
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Re: NIC#1025
« Reply #32 on: February 27, 2019, 03:19:44 AM »
How about it being a conversion from an SS1 - the proportions of radiator and front chassis/axle look similar.
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Re: NIC#1025
« Reply #33 on: February 27, 2019, 06:31:09 AM »
Quote from: Allan L on February 27, 2019, 03:19:44 AM
How about it being a conversion from an SS1 - the proportions of radiator and front chassis/axle look similar.

No. Much more mundane.
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Re: NIC#1025
« Reply #34 on: February 27, 2019, 08:01:44 AM »
D'you mean like the 15 h.p. Standard (that the SS 1 was derived from!)?
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Re: NIC#1025
« Reply #35 on: February 27, 2019, 08:08:52 AM »
Quote from: Allan L on February 27, 2019, 08:01:44 AM
D'you mean like the 15 h.p. Standard (that the SS 1 was derived from!)?

Now that WOULD be mundane.  Not a Standard of any kind - this car was homebuilt from a really ordinary car but was substantially modified to achieve the end product.
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Re: NIC#1025
« Reply #36 on: February 27, 2019, 08:51:03 AM »
A Ford?
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Re: NIC#1025
« Reply #37 on: February 27, 2019, 12:06:12 PM »
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Re: NIC#1025
« Reply #38 on: February 28, 2019, 03:55:56 PM »
Armstrong-Siddeley
Leyland
Leidart
Daimler
Alvis
RR
Railton
Austin
Vauxhall
Standard
Ford

Is a Hillman mundane enough?   :scratch:
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Re: NIC#1025
« Reply #39 on: February 28, 2019, 04:33:53 PM »
Not a Hillman.
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Re: NIC#1025
« Reply #40 on: February 28, 2019, 05:09:53 PM »
Wolseley?
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Re: NIC#1025
« Reply #41 on: February 28, 2019, 05:22:18 PM »
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Re: NIC#1025
« Reply #42 on: March 01, 2019, 05:12:59 AM »
Trojan  ;)

Seriously:  Does the source car begin with A-M or N-Z ?
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Re: NIC#1025
« Reply #43 on: March 01, 2019, 05:39:58 AM »
Quote from: D-type on March 01, 2019, 05:12:59 AM
Trojan  ;)

Seriously:  Does the source car begin with A-M or N-Z ?

 :D Not a Trojan although I like the idea.......

When I say mundane, it's not cheap and cheerful, just a very "ordinary" car. Begins N-Z.
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Re: NIC#1025
« Reply #44 on: March 01, 2019, 08:57:52 AM »
Sunbeam?
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Re: NIC#1025
« Reply #45 on: March 01, 2019, 11:52:51 AM »
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Re: NIC#1025
« Reply #46 on: March 01, 2019, 04:41:33 PM »
Railton
RR
SS
Standard
Sunbeam
Vauxhall
Wolseley

I can't think of another make at the moment, so N-R or S-Z?
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Re: NIC#1025
« Reply #47 on: March 01, 2019, 04:45:09 PM »
Morris???
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Re: NIC#1025
« Reply #48 on: March 01, 2019, 05:18:14 PM »
Quote from: FrontMan on March 01, 2019, 04:45:09 PM
Morris???

Not a Morris, but it's N-R.
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Re: NIC#1025
« Reply #49 on: March 02, 2019, 10:42:40 AM »
Based on a Rover?
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