Barrett's #153 - Solved - KM 300

[barrett]

Not a repost!

Name of this car for a point

[pnegyesi]

 

[barrett]

One step closer, Pal...

[Carnut]

Anything to do with Falcon?

[barrett]

I believe the body uses the same moulds as the Falcon MkII but other than that there is no connection that I know of

[Carnut]

Elva then?

[barrett]

Not an Elva either.... There are several marques who used this body (it's still being built in much modified form today!) and this particular make has been featured here before...

[Carnut]

You must mean the Autotune Gemini which still uses the basic shell, but It's not one of those is it.

One of these shells was actually fitted to a Triumph Spitfire to race at Le Mans in the early 1960's.  It's nothing to do with that project is it?  It doesn't look much like a racing car..

[barrett]

You must mean the Autotune Gemini which still uses the basic shell, but It's not one of those is it.

One of these shells was actually fitted to a Triumph Spitfire to race at Le Mans in the early 1960's.  It's nothing to do with that project is it?  It doesn't look much like a racing car..

Are you sure about the Spitfire? I'd never heard of that before, although there was an Austin-Healey Sprite Le Mans car with a Falcon body...

Either way, it's nothing to do with Triumph or A-H. You're right to think that it's not a race car either, this one was strictly road going (That's a big clue!)

[Carnut]

KM 200?

(I'm not sure about the Spitfire - maybe it said Sprite and my memory is letting me down!)

[barrett]

Not a KM 200 (that would be a repost) but you're nearly there. Locked for you.

[Carnut]

Is it a Nota then?
They took some of Keith Morrison's last KM200 bodies when he packed up and mated them to their own chassis.

[barrett]

You're getting colder... Look at the KM again and see what you can dig up. Still locked for you (for another 24 hours - you're very close)

[Carnut]

Thanks!
Thought about the KM300 but it seems that car, whilst sharing the same basic body, had covered headlights.

In that case it must be a (the?) Concord!

P.S. I'm sure you don't mean 'Auscar' as a picture of a KM is captioned somewhere; I don't believe such a car ever existed but is simply an abbreviation of 'Australian Car' as the poster didn't know what it was!

[barrett]

Not the Concord, but it is the KM300!
I don't know about the covered headlights, but the 300 was the road going version of the 200, with the full width 'screen. It's possible that the photo was mis-captioned but this is a non internet (nearly) period source that seems otherwise reliable. Point added!

[Carnut]

Thanks.

Since the car was by Keith Morrison it had to be either a KM200 (not possible as that would have been a repost), a KM300 or the Concord, but I couldn't actually find a picture of the Concord.  I wonder what that looked like?

Here is my source:

[Arunas]

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=5828.25

[Carnut]

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=5828.25

Ah yes - that would explain why, when I tried to post this advert, I was told there already was a post with the same name on AP!

[Carnut]

I'm sure you don't mean 'Auscar' as a picture of a KM is captioned somewhere; I don't believe such a car ever existed but is simply an abbreviation of 'Australian Car' as the poster didn't know what it was!

I was wrong!:

www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=6962.0