#117 by Arunas Solved: Peel Manxcar (aka 'Manxman')

Started by Arunas, January 28, 2009, 05:45:52 AM

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Arunas

January 28, 2009, 05:45:52 AM Last Edit: February 02, 2025, 07:08:56 PM by gte4289
Know this car? Get one point!

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KVAB

#1
January 31, 2009, 04:34:23 AM
A boxy Fuldamobil?

Arunas

#2
January 31, 2009, 06:19:16 AM

Arunas

#3
February 07, 2009, 02:58:06 PM
For da xperts!

Arunas

#4
February 14, 2009, 04:28:04 PM
A POC for the the pros!

Carnut

#6
November 13, 2015, 07:20:32 AM
What's this car and from when does it date, for 1 point?
Although it has appeared here before this picture is from a little earlier date when it had a slightly different name, which is what I'm looking for now, not what it was called in the previous puzzle.

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Carnut

#7
November 30, 2015, 05:22:09 AM
Experts?
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frederick59

#8
November 30, 2015, 12:19:51 PM
British car?

Carnut

#9
November 30, 2015, 03:07:28 PM
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Kytsyk

#10
December 05, 2015, 04:57:49 PM
Peel Manxcar, 1955

Carnut

#11
December 06, 2015, 07:30:03 AM
Quote from: Kytsyk on December 05, 2015, 04:57:49 PM
Peel Manxcar, 1955

That's what its name was in the previous puzzle, here:

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=6718.msg48895#msg48895

If you read the initial question again however you'll see I'm looking for a different name this time.
Have another look..
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Kytsyk

#12
December 06, 2015, 08:37:19 AM
Hmm...
How about "Manxman"?

Carnut

#13
December 07, 2015, 04:31:40 AM
Yes, that's the name I was looking for.
It seems their first idea was to call this the Manxman but it was changed for 'production' to Manxcar.
What I don't know is if any were actually produced!  My picture of the 'Manxman' is actually exactly the same car as the later 'Manxcar' so may well be the only one they ever made...

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Wendax

#14
December 07, 2015, 04:49:43 AM
The name 'Manxman' was chosen but conflicted with an Excelsior motorcycle so would probably have changed to 'Manxcar' if it had gone ahead. A prototype was shown to staff from 'Motor Cycling' magazine during the June 1955 TT races and again in January 1956, but objections from the then UK Customs and Excise meant that purchase tax might have been payable, making the project unviable and so it was abandoned.

Carnut

#15
December 07, 2015, 05:00:29 AM
Thanks for that.
It's described as a 'build-it-yourself' car in that article, which meant no purchase tax should be payable, so why HM Customs & Excise decided that it could be I can't imagine.  The lack of purchase tax (which was not a uniform rate at all as every product was charged at a different percentage - high on cars) was one of the main reasons for the plethora of kit-cars here in the UK, which were exempt from purchase tax.  It was only when the UK joined what was then known as the Common Market that the European bureaucrats came along and decreed that a uniform rate of VAT must be charged on nearly everything, including kit-cars, and killed the industry off overnight.  Great thinking.
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Oguerrerob

#16
December 07, 2015, 01:39:12 PM
This week casually I've found this picture

gte4289

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February 02, 2025, 07:07:08 PM
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