Q443 - solved - Edwards prototype

Quiller · April 25, 2009, 05:50:36 PM

What's the identity of this car?

Quiller · May 18, 2009, 07:37:18 AM

egg-spurts

Quiller · June 02, 2009, 04:18:21 PM

pro-plus

Arunas · July 15, 2009, 01:47:37 PM

Looks British..

Quiller · July 15, 2009, 03:08:08 PM

Quote from: Arunas on July 15, 2009, 01:47:37 PM
Looks British..

As ever, looks can be deceptive ;)

Allemano · July 15, 2009, 03:13:15 PM

USA?

Paul Jaray · July 15, 2009, 03:13:53 PM

I think I saw this one...is it Spanish?

Quiller · July 15, 2009, 03:17:46 PM

I have very little info on this car... but USA is correct

Arunas · July 15, 2009, 04:01:32 PM

Bloomquist?

Quiller · July 16, 2009, 12:42:47 PM

Not Bloomquist ...

Arunas · July 16, 2009, 01:57:38 PM

electric probably?

Paul Jaray · July 16, 2009, 02:04:42 PM

Is that roof a paticular one?

Quiller · July 16, 2009, 06:32:06 PM

As I say, I don't have much info on this car, but I don't think it's electric

Allemano · September 16, 2009, 08:35:09 AM

It seems to be one of the Edwards prototypes Paul Jaray has posted today.. (or at least which had inspired the later Edwards America)
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=9320.0;topicseen

Paul Jaray · September 16, 2009, 08:38:09 AM

Quote from: Paul Jaray on July 15, 2009, 03:13:53 PM
I think I saw this one...

:'(

Arunas · September 16, 2009, 10:22:35 AM

Is it Edwards-related?

Ray B. · September 16, 2009, 12:02:14 PM

Related? It's no question to me. It is the first Edwards sportster of 1949 shown in the SIA article posted by Paul Jaray, with its hardtop on. The car Paul shows is a roadster, but the article says "the car was a 4-seater roadster with removable hardtop and windshield"
There only other fifference is that on the puzzle photo, there are bumper guards on the bumper.
To me, Allemano did it (maybe Paul had forgotten this one).

Paul Jaray · September 16, 2009, 01:55:58 PM

When I posted the Edwards pages, I saw the car and I was going to look for this one...but I forgot! :'(

Allemano · September 16, 2009, 04:01:32 PM

You must feel really horrible....

Paul Jaray · September 16, 2009, 05:56:34 PM

I will survive... :D

Quiller · September 17, 2009, 08:31:45 AM

Of course, that's correct! :)

Carnut · October 31, 2010, 02:56:42 PM

I found this picture of an "Edwards R26" which seems to be the same car but topless..

Allemano · April 23, 2012, 10:14:58 AM

I think we should change the title to 1949 Edwards R-26.

Ray B. · April 24, 2012, 09:42:54 AM

I don't.
I think that "26" is only the number the car carried in a race (see the helmet on the driver) or similar event.
If you arefully read the SIA article about the car in ther topic to which the link is given above, you see no mention of that name, R26, in the text. But you do find a picture of the car with a "26" on its side and an helmeted driver in what is probably the same event.
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=9320.0;topicseen

EDIT: I am both right, and wrong. R-26 seems never to have been an official name, but this very important car is consistently called that in a forgotten Fiberglass article (where Carnut found his picture I guess).
See below.

Allemano · April 24, 2012, 10:18:55 AM

I've just got my sciolism from a well known source about fiberglass cars which uses that designation « R-26 » for various Edwards sport cars.. (R-26 -> R-62)
You're right, that original article from 1950 doesn't mention « R-26 », but at least it's better known under this name today.

Ahh, I see you've edited your last post. :shiner:

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Q443 - solved - Edwards prototype