Author Topic: Solved - NEH 5693: Giron Alvis built on Speed 20 chassis/Speed 25 engine mid-late 1970s  (Read 6477 times)

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Re: NEH 5693
« Reply #25 on: March 21, 2024, 07:55:46 AM »
British yes, but not Aston Martin.
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Re: NEH 5693
« Reply #26 on: March 21, 2024, 02:49:41 PM »
Jaguar?
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Re: NEH 5693
« Reply #27 on: March 22, 2024, 07:34:11 AM »
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Re: NEH 5693
« Reply #28 on: March 23, 2024, 05:26:25 PM »
Ford?
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Re: NEH 5693
« Reply #29 on: March 24, 2024, 11:58:03 AM »
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Re: NEH 5693
« Reply #30 on: March 24, 2024, 01:43:58 PM »
BMC?
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A Henschel in rushing up the hill, wheras in a Mercedes wind is rushing through the doors. c/o norberthanke

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Re: NEH 5693
« Reply #31 on: March 24, 2024, 05:31:39 PM »
Riley?
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Re: NEH 5693
« Reply #32 on: March 25, 2024, 09:04:21 AM »
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Re: NEH 5693
« Reply #33 on: March 25, 2024, 04:09:18 PM »
ERA?
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Re: NEH 5693
« Reply #34 on: March 26, 2024, 08:59:29 AM »
No..
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Re: NEH 5693
« Reply #35 on: March 27, 2024, 07:10:20 AM »
British 6-cylinder engine.
Not:
MG
Bristol
Aston Martin
Jaguar
Ford
BMC
Riley
ERA

Who's left?
Vauxhall?
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Re: NEH 5693
« Reply #36 on: March 27, 2024, 07:17:38 AM »
Not Vauxhall!
Who's left? The one the engine is from!
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Re: NEH 5693
« Reply #37 on: March 27, 2024, 01:42:32 PM »
An interesting puzzle. The photograph  looks modern. It is racing on a track rather than a hill climb. I can't imagine what category it would be racing in. It has semi-elliptics all round but with an extra radius rod at the back; wheels, tyres and brakes all rather odd. As for the engine, I would guess at Alvis, but really I haven't a clue. Further thoughts later..
The more I consider the nature of speed, the more mysterious I find it.

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Re: NEH 5693
« Reply #38 on: March 27, 2024, 02:07:52 PM »
Rod Jolley Alvis Giron 1988.
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Re: NEH 5693
« Reply #39 on: March 27, 2024, 02:23:08 PM »
Earlier. Possibly late 70s conversion from a 1932 Speed 20 chassis with a supercharged 4.3 engine. This photo is dated June 1984.
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Re: NEH 5693
« Reply #40 on: March 28, 2024, 12:55:54 PM »
Yes, well done - that's the car.
It was named after Louis Giron, one-time engineer at Bugatti but latterly a technical consultant at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu.
He was involved in the design and building of the car with Rod Jolley on a spare Alvis Speed 20 chassis they had lying around, but sadly died just a couple of weeks after it was first finished in the mid to late 1970s.
It was subsequently much modified to get it to handle and go properly and its final appearance was fairly different by the mid 1980s.
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I was waiting for that one - I can''t understand what took so long. It's very similar to the Goodwin Special Alvis.
I must be right - that's what it says on Wikipedia

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I would never have thought of an Alvis engine.  Well done Lavrakas
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