Solved - NEH 271: Alvis TA350 prototype

[Captain Slow]

This car is the Alvis TA350. As I've stated in the other thread, Carnut's puzzle features my original artists' impression of the car, created before this photo became available.

[Allemano]

However, since posting this puzzle I have found out that the picture may not be of a genuine car but a photo-shopped image of what it might have looked like..

I know it's an old thread, I just thought I'd clear this up for anyone who was interested. This is definitely a photoshopped image, created before the real images were discovered - originally intended to accompany an article that was three months in the making. Toward the end of this period, however, real photographs emerged.


How do I know this? I did the photoshop, collaborating with the article's author over detail and making some reference to the original drawings we could find. In important areas it was quite close, differing only in details such as front end treatment as suggested by the author of the piece it was to go with. Started off as a series III Morris Oxford.

Great! Thanks for that expertise!

[Allemano]

Merged!

[Captain Slow]

Incidentally, two of the incorrect guesses have a basis in fact. If memory serves the grille on my artists' impression originally came off a Riley 1.5 and the hubcaps are Lancia Flaminia jobs - the latter used as both Moulton and Issigonis were Lancia fans, and it struck us that similar detailing may have been used.

[Carnut]

More pictures of this car have emerged: