Barrett's #88 - Solved - Duncan Hillman and Duncan Alvis TA 14

[barrett]

Two cars - one point. Tell me what both of these are for the point!

[barrett]

Find one, and you'll find the other one, experts

[woodinsight]

I believe these are - on the left a Duncan bodied Healey and on the right a Duncan bodied Alvis

[barrett]

(oops I got over excited there!)

Not quite right MJW - The Alvis is correct, but the other car is not a Healey (although it looks like it)

Locked for you

[woodinsight]

Daimler 2.5 litre?

[barrett]

Not a Daimler

still locked for you

[woodinsight]

Bentley?

[barrett]

Not that either

[woodinsight]

Perhaps another Alvis!
Anyway if it's not that I'll have to do some digging and please unlock it for others

[barrett]

Not an Alvis no!

Okay, this is now unlocked for the other Experts

[Aaron65]

Is it a Hillman Minx body that Ian Duncan dropped on a Healey chassis with a Healey style grille?

[barrett]

That's the one!
Although woodinsight guessed Healey this car is known as the Duncan-Hillman or Duncan-Minx

One point each for Aaron65 and MJW

[woodinsight]

I have to say that I've never heard of the Duncan-Hillman Minx.
Autopuzzles surprises every day!
Thanks for the point - it was unexpected

[barrett]

The small bit of information I have

"Three A-type chassis were ordered from the DHMC and the first one fitted with a Hillman Minx body suitably modified to take the Healey kite shape grille. While that was strange enough the next two were even more so with first a Ford Anglia followed by a Prefect body being fitted. The next body was completely new and fitted to a Alvis TA14 chassis"

[Otto Puzzell]

It would be fun to do Duncan doughnuts it one or both of those.

[grobmotorix]

Here´s a nice contemporary photo: