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Title: Rookie Race Car #251 - The Jack Neal Jaguar Special
Post by: Otto Puzzell on July 01, 2012, 07:01:08 AM
For one point: identify the car (the one in front) and it's builder.

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Title: Re: Rookie Race Car #251
Post by: Otto Puzzell on July 08, 2012, 06:11:49 AM
A quick expert point?
Title: Re: Rookie Race Car #251
Post by: Otto Puzzell on July 16, 2012, 04:12:54 AM
Up
Title: Re: Rookie Race Car #251
Post by: Otto Puzzell on July 23, 2012, 04:39:22 AM
Pros?
Title: Re: Rookie Race Car #251
Post by: Allan L on July 23, 2012, 04:51:00 AM
Built by one of those chaps who lined half a gross of holes up in a jig and welded them together ;D
Title: Re: Rookie Race Car #251
Post by: Otto Puzzell on July 23, 2012, 05:01:15 AM
I think you're spot-on ;)
Title: Re: Rookie Race Car #251
Post by: D-type on July 24, 2012, 11:59:27 AM
from New Zealand?
Title: Re: Rookie Race Car #251
Post by: Otto Puzzell on July 24, 2012, 02:37:45 PM
No sir
Title: Re: Rookie Race Car #251
Post by: woodinsight on July 24, 2012, 02:39:03 PM
Australian?
Title: Re: Rookie Race Car #251
Post by: Otto Puzzell on July 24, 2012, 02:44:20 PM
A-ha! You're on the scent!
Title: Re: Rookie Race Car #251
Post by: Allan L on July 25, 2012, 04:01:47 AM
Hard to get a sense of scale and period. Post 1939, dated by the Ford Prefect in the background but from the wheel/tyre proportions I'd say rather later, but based on a 1930s chassis such as an SS. Can't make the engine out, but let's guess it (and the chassis) was once an SS100.
Title: Re: Rookie Race Car #251
Post by: Otto Puzzell on July 25, 2012, 04:08:36 AM
Follow that hunch
Title: Re: Rookie Race Car #251
Post by: woodinsight on July 25, 2012, 04:39:42 AM
Could it be the Austral Union Special fitted with a Jaguar XK120 engine?
Title: Re: Rookie Race Car #251
Post by: Otto Puzzell on July 25, 2012, 05:36:08 AM
Not that one
Title: Re: Rookie Race Car #251
Post by: woodinsight on July 25, 2012, 06:13:32 AM
Finally found it after an extensive search  :)

It's the Jack Neal Jaguar Special that was fitted with a 2.5-litre SS100 Jaguar engine.
The photo shows the car whilst under construction in 1956.
I'm not sure whether the car survives today.
Title: Re: Rookie Race Car #251
Post by: Otto Puzzell on July 25, 2012, 06:17:03 AM
Well solved! Here's the completed car: