A sports racer from the early postwar years.
For one point let me know the make/constructor, year it was built and the engine it used.
Moving up
Does a Pro know?
750 Formula?
Quote from: faksta on September 07, 2011, 12:41:27 PM
750 Formula?
No it never was a 750 Formula car.
As a clue it was originally fitted with a 1100cc engine.
This was later changed to a larger engine of a different make and a more modern body was fitted at the same time.
RGS , ATLANTA ?
Is the builder 'known' to puzzlers? Or was this a one-off built by an individual
Quote from: barrett on September 08, 2011, 11:10:10 AM
Is the builder 'known' to puzzlers? Or was this a one-off built by an individual
Good point.
As far as I know it hasn't been known to puzzlers before.
It is a 'one-off' but has been featured in magazines in the past.
British engine from the 1930s?
Quote from: barrett on September 08, 2011, 11:58:08 AM
British engine from the 1930s?
The engine (as in the photo) was not British.
However it was later fitted with an engine from the UK.
Was the car itself built in England? (I'd assumed so previously, I should've asked this first!)
Yes, UK built - in one of the smallest British counties.....
From the Isle of Man?
Quote from: barrett on September 08, 2011, 12:12:14 PM
Was the car itself built in England? (I'd assumed so previously, I should've asked this first!)
The man wears a bow tie as a part of his racing suit - where else could this be? ;D
Not Isle of Man.
Mainland England.....
Wales!
Could it be H.Hallam's Simca - Fiat 1100?
Quote from: faksta on September 08, 2011, 01:00:46 PM
Could it be H.Hallam's Simca - Fiat 1100?
Yes, you've got it.
Well done.
Built by Harry Hallam in Rutland in 1950.
The car used a Fiat 1100 engine and parts (I don't know about the Simca part).
A Lea Francis 'Big Four' 2.5 litre engine was later fitted together with an XK120 style body.
Ah... great, that was a rather wild guess :)
Quote from: faksta on September 08, 2011, 01:37:41 PM
Ah... great, that was a rather wild guess :)
Sometimes that works, sometimes not but congratulations are in order.
Quote from: woodinsight on September 08, 2011, 01:29:39 PM
Quote from: faksta on September 08, 2011, 01:00:46 PM
Could it be H.Hallam's Simca - Fiat 1100?
Yes, you've got it.
Well done.
Built by Harry Hallam in Rutland in 1950.
The car used a Fiat 1100 engine and parts (I don't know about the Simca part).
A Lea Francis 'Big Four' 2.5 litre engine was later fitted together with an XK120 style body.
Well I must say that the 2½ litre Lea-Francis engine must have upset the balance rather, being quite heavy. Simca were of course licence-building Fiats until about 1950, so the Simca part may just have been that the Fiat bits were made by them.