Yes it's a midget racer, but which engine has it got, and where was it built?
An Offenhauser from Indiana?
Neither of those
Maybe a Ford V8-60?
Dan
Not a Ford
Not 8 cylinders
Possibly an Irish or English miidget racer from the 50s.
Right era, wrong hemisphere
Is the SAB in the nerf bar a lead?
AB on the nerf bar are indeed a lead - they are the maker's initials.
Probably doesn't help, though
Quote from: Allan L on April 04, 2007, 04:51:59 AM
Right era, wrong hemisphere
Does that mean Southern hemisphere or western hemisphere?
Quote from: GRAYWOLF on April 04, 2007, 11:49:15 AM
Quote from: Allan L on April 04, 2007, 04:51:59 AM
Right era, wrong hemisphere
Does that mean Southern hemisphere or western hemisphere?
Depending on your Western hemisphere's bounding Longitudes, the answer could be yes to both!
NZ?
Let me run this one past you...back in the early '50''s, I believe it was Duane Carter who built amidget car that was originally planned to be a Formula One car. For reasons i don't recall, it didn't pan out for Carter to pursue that avenue much past the formative stage. Could this be that car?
Dan
Quote from: Tifosi on April 04, 2007, 03:15:55 PM
Let me run this one past you...back in the early '50''s, I believe it was Duane Carter who built amidget car that was originally planned to be a Formula One car. For reasons i don't recall, it didn't pan out for Carter to pursue that avenue much past the formative stage. Could this be that car?
No idea who or where Duane Carter was, but I think not.
Also: not NZ, but right general area of the world.
Random sort of guess but from Australia with a Peugeot motor?
Random answer: country correct, motor not
A Repco / Holden?
Not an indigenous motor
Since Dan's Ford V8-60 suggestion, an article has appeared about this car that tells me (which I didn't know before) that it did have a V8-60 before getting the engine shown.
I don't expect that to be helpful, but another photo just might be.
You got your pic on both http://www.justmidgets.homestead.com/Alfbaker.html and http://www.justmidgets.homestead.com/Classicphotos.html
Alf Baker is the 'AB' and they talk about the Lea Francis, so I would guess that is the missing fact
Actually the sites you found have a better copy of the original photo than I used!
However, if you had read the text a bit more attentively you would have seen that although a lot of the first site is Alf Baker, the AB in this case was Alf Beasley.
It was a Lea-Francis engine, which, although you may not have noticed it, is a common thread for several of my offerings.
I think that's solved it as I only asked where it was made and what the engine was.
Arthur Dent got the country; Pieter got the engine.
How can I award half a mark each