Author Topic: Information Requests || What is this car ? thread (Read 816035 times)

Carnut · « **Reply #1100 on:** August 08, 2016, 04:55:37 AM »

Quote from: Allan L on August 06, 2016, 04:08:09 AM

As you say, a Sunbeam Alpine or possibly Tiger.

I don't think it can be a Tiger as it is a Series I-III with the big pointy tail fins.
The production Tigers only ever had the Series IV-V body with toned-down rear wings and Hillman Minx rear lights, though I believe the first prototype was based on a Series II.

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #1101 on:** August 13, 2016, 04:29:46 AM »

Yes, those pics were very big, Buford.

Merging with the "What is This Car" thread.

Arunas · « **Reply #1102 on:** September 20, 2016, 10:17:50 AM »

Can anyone recognize this green car, please?

barrett · « **Reply #1103 on:** September 22, 2016, 01:08:58 PM »

Quote from: galrot on July 11, 2016, 01:12:29 PM

Does anyone recognize these cars and who built them?

That's the Lea Francis built by Joe Gertler in New York in the early 1950s. I don't recognise any of the other cars but it is probably Gertler's shopin Long Island

Edit: The wild MG TC in the background is one of Gertler's too

Carnut · « **Reply #1104 on:** September 23, 2016, 08:50:44 AM »

I knew I recognised it but just couldn't put my finger on it.
Here's your original puzzle of it (along with my re-post...):

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2011-39/barrett's-45-solved-lea-francis-rebodied-by-joe-gertler-in-1957/msg297856/#msg297856

galrot · « **Reply #1105 on:** September 23, 2016, 12:05:36 PM »

I forgot to update the request, but I actually manage to find it out on my own (along with some forumers on another forum) a while back and it is now categorized correctly on the site where I had initially intended to put it on.

I have not been able to identify which chassis this car was built on though and I received no answer on my e-mail to the creator of the Joe Geetler history page.

galrot · « **Reply #1106 on:** October 08, 2016, 09:41:26 PM »

Does anyone recognize this car which was shown on an Italian concours? Who built it and what chassis was it made on?

nicanary · « **Reply #1107 on:** October 25, 2016, 02:28:13 PM »

I was reading an old account by Denis Jenkinson the other day, and he mentioned that he'd stopped at a garage in Albi amd spotted this car which had been built by the garage proprietor, based on a Citroen 15cv. He photographed the car because he was so impressed by the design and engineering involved, but he didn't mention the name of the builder.

I've had a look through all 8 pages of "Citroen" on AP, and couldn't find it, so this could be new to us all. Any ideas?

Djetset · « **Reply #1108 on:** October 25, 2016, 02:41:34 PM »

From memory this was the first vehicle to be constructed by M.E.P., which went on to build the nice little M.E.P. Formula bleu racers that used air-cooled Panhard and Citroen engines. Currently a long way from home, but will try and dig out some proof of this when I'm next there later this week.

Allemano · « **Reply #1109 on:** October 25, 2016, 02:44:12 PM »

M.E.P. is correct

nicanary · « **Reply #1110 on:** October 25, 2016, 02:52:38 PM »

Quote from: Allemano on October 25, 2016, 02:44:12 PM

M.E.P. is correct

Thanks to Djetset and Allemano. It's obvious now! Typical of DSJ not to provide full info in his article, but he used to write his reports in long-hand and trust overseas postal services to get them to Boddy, so I'll let him off if he had to leave out some stuff which didn't seem important to him. It's been a previous puzzle.

Carnut · « **Reply #1111 on:** October 26, 2016, 04:30:14 AM »

There were several different versions and I've considered posting one of them from my pictures file several times but they are all just a bit too similar so I haven't been tempted.. I thnk they were all posted in one of the threads below by fnqvmuch anyway.

Here are a couple of puzzles of the MEP Daphné which we've already had:

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2009-37/f95-solved-1953-mep-d7/msg78020/#msg78020

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2009-37/q286-solved-mep-daphne/msg51167/#msg51167

nicanary · « **Reply #1112 on:** October 27, 2016, 06:57:14 AM »

This photo has been posted on another well-known website, and has so far received mainly ludicrous answers. It's a car which was dropped from a great height to see what would happen. I keep thinking it's a GRP special, but the bodywork has not shattered enough and it could be alloy. Someone has pointed out that there seems to be a semaphore indicator in the centre pillar.

Any ideas?

Carnut · « **Reply #1113 on:** October 28, 2016, 03:44:44 AM »

I think I could have told them what would happen before they went to the effort...
It doesn't look like glass fibre, which doesn't bend like the roof has.
Seems to be a 4-door car but no ideas yet..

Carnut · « **Reply #1114 on:** October 28, 2016, 04:26:14 AM »

Surely no-one would do that to a Bristol?!

Wendax · « **Reply #1115 on:** October 28, 2016, 04:29:52 AM »

Bristol was my first thought, too, but the distance between front wheel arch and A-pillar seems to be too short for a Bristol.

Wendax · « **Reply #1116 on:** October 28, 2016, 04:43:19 AM »

I found another picture where it is said to have been a Wolseley:

nicanary · « **Reply #1117 on:** October 28, 2016, 05:18:08 AM »

It could be a 4/44, because so much seems right. Even the semaphore indicator in the B-pillar. But why has the rear bumper got an indentation for a number plate, when the 4/44 had it mounted on the boot lid?

Carnut · « **Reply #1118 on:** October 28, 2016, 06:15:55 AM »

Because it could be an MG Magnette?

nicanary · « **Reply #1119 on:** October 28, 2016, 07:09:45 AM »

What I called a ludicrous suggestion on that other site is in fact correct! Shows how much I know......

I suppose the force of the crash pushed the boot section upwards to make it look to the casual eye like a more squared-off shape.

Carnut · « **Reply #1120 on:** October 28, 2016, 08:02:52 AM »

Quote from: nicanary on October 28, 2016, 07:09:45 AM

What I called a ludicrous suggestion on that other site is in fact correct! Shows how much I know......

I suppose the force of the crash pushed the boot section upwards to make it look to the casual eye like a more squared-off shape.

Yes, the rear lights and that chrome strip behind the front wheels would bear it out.
It's a Magnette ZA.

Allan L · « **Reply #1121 on:** October 28, 2016, 09:51:38 AM »

As I said in another place, the bit of rear bodywork overhanging the n/s rear wheel looks to me like GRP rather than steel. That may be repair bodgery rather than original, of course as I suppose they wouldn't have used a pristine car for the occasion.

Djetset · « **Reply #1122 on:** November 03, 2016, 06:58:47 PM »

A new Volkswagen Beetle-based buggy was shown at the 1972 Turin auto show, called the Sicra Big Buggy. Does anyone have a photograph of the Sicra please, as I'm struggling to find out what it looks like. Thanks.

Arunas · « **Reply #1123 on:** November 04, 2016, 12:20:49 AM »

Quote from: Djetset on November 03, 2016, 06:58:47 PM

A new Volkswagen Beetle-based buggy was shown at the 1972 Turin auto show, called the Sicra Big Buggy. Does anyone have a photograph of the Sicra please, as I'm struggling to find out what it looks like. Thanks.

http://bit.ly/2etJK93

Djetset · « **Reply #1124 on:** November 04, 2016, 08:12:34 AM »

Fantastic. Thank you Arunas, very much appreciated.

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