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Solved NIC#1086 - EJ Special by Don Edhouse
« on: June 30, 2019, 06:06:23 AM »
What is this car, and who built it?
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Re: NIC#1086
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2019, 05:55:53 AM »
Experts?
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Re: NIC#1086
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2019, 03:05:34 PM »
Has it got a Flathead Ford V8 engine?
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Re: NIC#1086
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2019, 03:44:16 PM »
Quote from: tobytwirl on July 31, 2019, 03:05:34 PM
Has it got a Flathead Ford V8 engine?

Well yes it has.
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Re: NIC#1086
« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2019, 06:28:56 PM »
British?
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Re: NIC#1086
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2019, 04:00:35 AM »
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Re: NIC#1086
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2019, 07:50:23 AM »
Australian?
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Re: NIC#1086
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2019, 08:16:23 AM »
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Re: NIC#1086
« Reply #8 on: August 02, 2019, 02:07:51 PM »
Asian?
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Re: NIC#1086
« Reply #9 on: August 02, 2019, 02:46:52 PM »
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Re: NIC#1086
« Reply #10 on: August 02, 2019, 04:20:26 PM »
African?
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Re: NIC#1086
« Reply #11 on: August 02, 2019, 04:39:12 PM »
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Re: NIC#1086
« Reply #12 on: August 02, 2019, 07:19:54 PM »
American?
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Re: NIC#1086
« Reply #13 on: August 03, 2019, 05:16:46 AM »
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Re: NIC#1086
« Reply #14 on: August 04, 2019, 08:48:55 AM »
New Zealand?
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Re: NIC#1086
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Re: NIC#1086
« Reply #16 on: August 04, 2019, 05:45:44 PM »
Thomas - Mercury?
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Re: NIC#1086
« Reply #17 on: August 05, 2019, 05:13:09 AM »
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Re: NIC#1086
« Reply #18 on: August 06, 2019, 06:27:02 PM »
This one is proving somewhat exacting ..... do we know the circuit? Tahanui?
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Re: NIC#1086
« Reply #19 on: August 07, 2019, 04:15:12 AM »
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This one is proving somewhat exacting ..... do we know the circuit? Tahanui?

The caption doesn't tell us. It looks like an airfield circuit to me. I was researching a hillclimb when I first heard about this car, if that helps.
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Re: NIC#1086
« Reply #20 on: August 07, 2019, 01:21:56 PM »
In the late 40s Don Edhouse bought a part-finished special with a V8 engine from a wartime bren gun carrier, and an aluminium body, - it was ‘just roadworthy’, Don recalls. Bert Creswell finished the body, and with help from Harry Arcus and Mick Jones it was finished, and christened the ‘EJ Special’.
Don managed 4th in the Paekakariki hillclimb, an annual event organised by the NZ Sports Car Club. He competed every year until the event ceased in the fifties
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Re: NIC#1086
« Reply #21 on: August 07, 2019, 02:08:15 PM »
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In the late 40s Don Edhouse bought a part-finished special with a V8 engine from a wartime bren gun carrier, and an aluminium body, - it was ‘just roadworthy’, Don recalls. Bert Creswell finished the body, and with help from Harry Arcus and Mick Jones it was finished, and christened the ‘EJ Special’.
Don managed 4th in the Paekakariki hillclimb, an annual event organised by the NZ Sports Car Club. He competed every year until the event ceased in the fifties

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