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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2007 => Topic started by: Allan L on July 03, 2007, 09:33:05 AM

Title: A 1950s Sports racer from Allan L: Tojeiro- Butterworth
Post by: Allan L on July 03, 2007, 09:33:05 AM
A relatively unusual sports racing car with a rather more unusual engine. Makes of car and engine please:
Title: Re: A 1950s Sports racer from Allan L
Post by: shamrock on July 04, 2007, 04:30:10 AM
A kieft.
Title: Re: A 1950s Sports racer from Allan L
Post by: D-type on July 04, 2007, 05:58:00 PM
A blind guess - the Tojeiro-Butterworth ?
Title: Re: A 1950s Sports racer from Allan L
Post by: Allan L on July 05, 2007, 03:01:48 AM
Quote from: D-type on July 04, 2007, 05:58:00 PM
A blind guess - the Tojeiro-Butterworth ?
I don't believe you made a blind guess!

It is the Tojeiro-Butterworth, as auctioned at Goodwood a fortnight ago.
Title: Re: A 1950s Sports racer from Allan L: Tojeiro- Butterworth
Post by: D-type on July 06, 2007, 01:18:38 PM
Well, it was more process of elimination.  As the picture was opening up I thought that unusual engine could mean Armstrong Siddley but the car was too small .  IShamrock eliminated a Kieft with the (then) unusual Climax engine.  Not an Elva so not the Elva-Butterworth.  So what was left in the way of small cars with unusual engines? 
But it was a blind guess in the sense that I had no idea what it looks like.
Title: Re: A 1950s Sports racer from Allan L: Tojeiro- Butterworth
Post by: Allan L on July 06, 2007, 01:46:31 PM
The two bonnet-top bulges may have helped, perhaps . . . ?
Title: Re: A 1950s Sports racer from Allan L: Tojeiro- Butterworth
Post by: Allan L on July 16, 2007, 05:14:11 AM
Correction to the above statement about Goodwood: I was confused about which auctioneer's site I had used and it is in fact still to be sold by H&H at their sale on25th July at Kempton Park, so if you fancy a really unusual classic sports-racer you can still have a bid for it.

http://www.classic-auctions.co.uk/lotdetail.php?&lotid=22504&aucid=5238