F#65 - Solved - 1954 Cooper-Connaught Disco Volante

faksta · April 01, 2009, 02:35:26 PM

Name the car for one point.

faksta · April 10, 2009, 10:43:03 AM

I know who has an answer, but does anyone else have?

Paul Jaray · April 10, 2009, 10:45:24 AM

I'm pretty sure at least one else...

DynaMike · April 10, 2009, 11:17:58 AM

1952 Alfa Romeo Disco Volante, by any chance... ?

faksta · April 10, 2009, 11:19:18 AM

It looks sooo much like that, but it's not Alfa Romeo.

JR · April 12, 2009, 06:38:01 AM

This looks like the one-off Cooper-Connaught Disco Volante commissioned by John Risley-Prichard, blatantly copied from the Alfa Romeo.

JR

faksta · April 12, 2009, 08:36:20 AM

And it is!

Allan L · April 12, 2009, 09:18:36 AM

I knew I'd seen it somewhere, but couldn't place it.
Hey ho.

Paul Jaray · April 12, 2009, 09:36:51 AM

Quote from: Paul Jaray on April 10, 2009, 10:45:24 AM
I'm pretty sure at least one else...

That was you!

barrett · March 01, 2011, 07:06:29 PM

Seen this before? I only know the mechanical base, so one point for that and one point for any other information you have about it's origins!

billtorrance9999 · March 02, 2011, 05:25:10 AM

Looks like one of the many Alfa Romeo Disco Volante (Flying Saucer) cars of the 50s

Paul Jaray · March 02, 2011, 08:12:29 AM

I believe we already had this too...

Allemano · March 02, 2011, 08:18:10 AM

I've checked it as well, but the search engine revealed nothing

Paul Jaray · March 02, 2011, 08:22:12 AM

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=7518.0

barrett · March 02, 2011, 09:29:52 AM

Interesting, that's not what I have it as at all!
But it does look to be the same car - let me check my files and I'll post what information I have on it later

barrett · March 18, 2011, 01:10:29 PM

Okay I'm going to let this be merged now. I've checked my source but ti doesn't give any mroe information that what had, which is the car was based on a Riley! I think this may have just been a mistake on the part of the photographer who took the photos some 30 years before they were published.
Seen at Goodwood, c.1952

Otto Puzzell · March 19, 2011, 04:33:20 AM

Merged, and point awarded to JR

D-type · March 20, 2011, 12:14:19 PM

According to Doug Nye's Cooper Cars [again!], John Risely-Pritchard had a spare engine with his two ex-Hawthorn Rileys so he had a Cooper 500 chassis widened and fitted the Riley engine into the front of it. he then in 1953 commissioned Wakefield's of Byfleet to build a body for it based on photographs of the Alfa Romeo Disco Volante. The Riley engine blew up and he then rebuilt it with a 1500cc Connaught engine.
Hence the Riley connection.

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F#65 - Solved - 1954 Cooper-Connaught Disco Volante