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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2011 => Topic started by: faksta on April 01, 2009, 02:35:26 PM

Title: F#65 - Solved - 1954 Cooper-Connaught Disco Volante
Post by: faksta on April 01, 2009, 02:35:26 PM
Name the car for one point.
Title: Re: F#65
Post by: faksta on April 10, 2009, 10:43:03 AM
I know who has an answer, but does anyone else have?
Title: Re: F#65
Post by: Paul Jaray on April 10, 2009, 10:45:24 AM
I'm pretty sure at least one else...
Title: Re: F#65
Post by: DynaMike on April 10, 2009, 11:17:58 AM
 :) 1952 Alfa Romeo Disco Volante, by any chance... ?
Title: Re: F#65
Post by: faksta on April 10, 2009, 11:19:18 AM
It looks sooo much like that, but it's not Alfa Romeo.
Title: Re: F#65
Post by: JR on April 12, 2009, 06:38:01 AM
This looks like the one-off Cooper-Connaught Disco Volante commissioned by John Risley-Prichard, blatantly copied from the Alfa Romeo.

JR
Title: Re: F#65
Post by: faksta on April 12, 2009, 08:36:20 AM
And it is!
Title: Re: F#65 - Solved - 1954 Cooper-Connaught Disco Volante
Post by: Allan L on April 12, 2009, 09:18:36 AM
I knew I'd seen it somewhere, but couldn't place it.
Hey ho.
Title: Re: F#65 - Solved - 1954 Cooper-Connaught Disco Volante
Post by: Paul Jaray on April 12, 2009, 09:36:51 AM
Quote from: Paul Jaray on April 10, 2009, 10:45:24 AM
I'm pretty sure at least one else...
That was you!
Title: barrett's #142
Post by: barrett on March 01, 2011, 07:06:29 PM
Seen this before? I only know the mechanical base, so one point for that and one point for any other information you have about it's origins!
Title: Re: barrett's #142
Post by: billtorrance9999 on March 02, 2011, 05:25:10 AM
Looks like one of the many Alfa Romeo Disco Volante (Flying Saucer) cars of the 50s
Title: Re: barrett's #142
Post by: Paul Jaray on March 02, 2011, 08:12:29 AM
I believe we already had this too...
Title: Re: barrett's #142
Post by: Allemano on March 02, 2011, 08:18:10 AM
I've checked it as well, but the search engine revealed nothing
Title: Re: barrett's #142
Post by: Paul Jaray on March 02, 2011, 08:22:12 AM
 ;) http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=7518.0
Title: Re: barrett's #142
Post by: barrett on March 02, 2011, 09:29:52 AM
Interesting, that's not what I have it as at all!
But it does look to be the same car - let me check my files and I'll post what information I have on it later
Title: Re: barrett's #142
Post by: barrett on March 18, 2011, 01:10:29 PM
Okay I'm going to let this be merged now. I've checked my source but ti doesn't give any mroe information that what  had, which is the car was based on a Riley! I think this may have just been a mistake on the part of the photographer who took the photos some 30 years before they were published.
Seen at Goodwood, c.1952
Title: Re: F#65 - Solved - 1954 Cooper-Connaught Disco Volante
Post by: Otto Puzzell on March 19, 2011, 04:33:20 AM
Merged, and point awarded to JR
Title: Re: F#65 - Solved - 1954 Cooper-Connaught Disco Volante
Post by: D-type on March 20, 2011, 12:14:19 PM
According to Doug Nye's Cooper Cars [again!], John Risely-Pritchard had a spare engine with his two ex-Hawthorn Rileys so he had a Cooper 500 chassis widened and fitted the Riley engine into the front of it. he then in 1953 commissioned Wakefield's of Byfleet to build a body for it based on photographs of the Alfa Romeo Disco Volante.  The Riley engine blew up and he then rebuilt it with a 1500cc Connaught engine.
Hence the Riley connection. 
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