Fun #136 - Joe Quinn's Special Austin Mercury / S.A.M

[Otto Puzzell]

For 1 point, tell us two things about this car.

Only a complete answer will earn a point!

Identify the vehicle and its builder.

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[Otto Puzzell]

Quick expert point

[D-type]

Lotus Mk 3?

Built by ACBC and friends

[shamrock]

its the v8 Ford engined special built on an Austin Chassis , in which its driver/buildr Joe Quinn was killed while racing at the Curragh  in 1954 ,

[shamrock]

left out the name of the car, S.A.M , SPECIAL AUSTIN MERCURY .

[Otto Puzzell]

That's it.

Good to see you back here, Shamrock!

[Allan L]

That looks like a recent photo with Mike Holt, who restored it three or four years ago, at the wheel. He is trying to sell it and if someone's interested I can forward details

[Otto Puzzell]

I found the car originally though a sellers newsletter. 

[nicanary]

Please tell me the year and name of this car, who built it, and what powered it.

[nicanary]

Experts?

[richard cuyler]

Made in England with a British chassis, like Morris or Austin?

[nicanary]

Made in England with a British chassis, like Morris or Austin?

Not from the UK, but it does have parts of the chassis from a UK manufacturer.

[nicanary]

Plenty of info on the internet, if you know where to look! 

[AlexFrance]

Chassis from a Austin 7?

[nicanary]

Chassis from a Austin 7?

You have asked me a question I can't answer. There are parts of an Austin in the chassis, so you have that part correct, but I don't know which model of Austin provided those parts. You have solved part of the puzzle, but not enough to earn a lock.

[D-type]

Australian?

[nicanary]

Australian?

No. A clue - I have been very pedantic with my replies as to the country of origin of this car. Can't say any more......

[D-type]

"Not from the UK ..."  Pedantically.  Is it from the Channel Islands?

[nicanary]

"Not from the UK ..."  Pedantically.  Is it from the Channel Islands?

No. But you've got the idea. Not a million miles from the UK.....

[Majeko]

Isle of Man?

[D-type]

Ireland?

[nicanary]

Ireland?

Sorry Majeko, good guess but D-Type is correct. So now we know where the car came from. Tell me more.

[D-type]

Ford 10 engine?

[nicanary]

Ford 10 engine?

Not a Ford 10hp, but the maker of the engine had a Ford connection.

[nicanary]

Just a quick post from me about my pedantry - I said earlier in the puzzle that the car was not from the UK, but from Ireland. I have just reread my notes and, much to my embarassment, the car was "technically" from the UK. I stress the embarassment, because I live in Northern Ireland.

This website should stay away from politics, but I can tell you that the name of the builder and the city where it was built, suggest to me that the builder probably considered himself Irish rather than British. However, from a pedantic point of view, the country of origin is in the UK.

That's a big clue. The builder came from a place famous for "strokes" *.

*(It's quite possible that only myself and one of the site's editors will understand that little joke)