Author Topic: Solved NIC#1302 - HWM Aston Martin of Lord Dunleath (Read 1591 times)

nicanary · « **on:** June 22, 2021, 09:20:34 AM »

Please tell me the chassis, engine, bodywork and driver. All for just one point.

Note that this is Autopuzzles. Things are never what they seem.

richard fridd · « **Reply #1 on:** June 27, 2021, 06:25:33 AM »

UK engine?

nicanary · « **Reply #2 on:** June 27, 2021, 06:35:51 AM »

Quote from: richard fridd on June 27, 2021, 06:25:33 AM

UK engine?

Yes.

richard fridd · « **Reply #3 on:** June 27, 2021, 04:33:59 PM »

Jaguar engine?

nicanary · « **Reply #4 on:** June 27, 2021, 05:03:33 PM »

Quote from: richard fridd on June 27, 2021, 04:33:59 PM

Jaguar engine?

No.

HGraber · « **Reply #5 on:** June 30, 2021, 10:42:25 AM »

Coventry Climax?

nicanary · « **Reply #6 on:** June 30, 2021, 01:57:42 PM »

Quote from: HGraber on June 30, 2021, 10:42:25 AM

Coventry Climax?

No.

nicanary · « **Reply #7 on:** July 18, 2021, 06:33:09 AM »

Experts?

FrontMan · « **Reply #8 on:** July 18, 2021, 08:36:01 AM »

Arnott, Lea-Francis engine, fibreglass shell, Daphne Arnott ?

nicanary · « **Reply #9 on:** July 18, 2021, 08:44:45 AM »

Quote from: FrontMan on July 18, 2021, 08:36:01 AM

Arnott, Lea-Francis engine, fibreglass shell, Daphne Arnott ?

None of the above. Sorry.

FrontMan · « **Reply #10 on:** July 18, 2021, 08:48:07 AM »

Willie McCrum · « **Reply #11 on:** July 19, 2021, 04:52:48 AM »

Armstrong Siddeley engine perhaps ?

nicanary · « **Reply #12 on:** July 19, 2021, 06:21:21 AM »

Quote from: Willie McCrum on July 19, 2021, 04:52:48 AM

Armstrong Siddeley engine perhaps ?

No. That'd be the Sphinx.

PS I didn't ask for the name of the circuit but it's not a million miles from Willie McCrum.

FrontMan · « **Reply #13 on:** July 19, 2021, 08:35:12 AM »

Lester-MG ?

nicanary · « **Reply #14 on:** July 19, 2021, 08:39:28 AM »

Quote from: FrontMan on July 19, 2021, 08:35:12 AM

Lester-MG ?

Not Lester and not MG.

Willie McCrum · « **Reply #15 on:** July 19, 2021, 12:00:03 PM »

Ah yes, a (probably very small) part of the DP155 saga. Driven by a peer of the realm (choine of two) at the circuit which lies right outside my office window. I was fooled by the grassy hummock in the background, but of course that's not there any more....
I've a feeling the pilot os Lord Dunleath, the engine could be Aston Martin, or possibly Jaguar and the rest of it...
HMMMM
There are differing accounts, and I don't have my excellend Simon Taylor book to hand, but HWM may well be implicated....

nicanary · « **Reply #16 on:** July 19, 2021, 02:29:37 PM »

You're almost there Willie. I may have mislead you - it's not Kirkistown but Long Kesh. The owner/driver lived just a few miles from Portavogie, at Ballywalter Park. I've met the current Lord and Lady, but at the time I didn't know the history of this car, and failed to ask if I could have a look round the stables which in the 1950s were used as the workshop for Lord Dunleath's mechanics.

Yes - you know you're correct. It's HWM chassis FB103, one of the 1950 team cars, fitted by now with the engine from an Aston Martin DB2/4. Picture from 1958. These days of course it's worth more money reverted back to HWM form. Go on - find out what bodywork that is.

LOCKED.

Willie McCrum · « **Reply #17 on:** July 20, 2021, 03:28:08 AM »

Aah. Lord Henry Dunleath, the current Lord , Brian by name, is perhaps less petrol headed, although he did host a gathering of the Banjafield Club some years ago, and sent a posse of Bentley boys down to Kirkistown to play one afternoon - great fun !
As for the HWM/Aston/ Lord knows what else, the rear body section has a definite DB3S loiok to it, but so did at least one Cooper Bristol, while the front end reminds me of a photograph I once saw of an RGS Atlanta. Any nuggets there ?

nicanary · « **Reply #18 on:** July 20, 2021, 04:51:17 AM »

Still locked for you.

Not the answer I'm afraid. The bodyshell usually makes people think it's GRP from a well-known maker with hints of Gracie Fields, but in fact it's the donor which created the mould.

The present Lord Dunleath is far more interested in pheasant-rearing. Their corpses litter the road round the park in breeding season. Great for a tasty supper if they're fresh - less so if they've been lying and nibbled by foxes and crows.

Willie McCrum · « **Reply #19 on:** July 21, 2021, 07:31:52 AM »

I think it might be better if you were to unlock this - and the Riley one as well. That would clear the way for somebody who REALLY knows - and educate me in the process....
Willie

nicanary · « **Reply #20 on:** July 21, 2021, 07:39:17 AM »

OK Willie, but you've identified the car in question and I'm awarding a point.

UNLOCKED for someone to identidy the source of this car's bodywork. My clues are probably only meaningful to someone from the UK.

Willie McCrum · « **Reply #21 on:** July 22, 2021, 02:36:50 AM »

Hah !
I should have looked at the book more closely....
Connaught !!!

nicanary · « **Reply #22 on:** July 22, 2021, 04:38:16 AM »

Quote from: Willie McCrum on July 22, 2021, 02:36:50 AM

Hah !
I should have looked at the book more closely....
Connaught !!!

Yes! The bodywork came from Connaught AL/SR12. One of these bodies was of course used to create the mould for the Rochdale C-type, hence the reference to Gracie Fields, that town's most famous daughter.

Well-earned point.

BTW Simon Taylor's history of HWM is a corker.

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Author Topic: Solved NIC#1302 - HWM Aston Martin of Lord Dunleath (Read 1591 times)