For one point: identify the car (the one in front) and it's builder.
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Built by one of those chaps who lined half a gross of holes up in a jig and welded them together ;D
I think you're spot-on ;)
from New Zealand?
No sir
Australian?
A-ha! You're on the scent!
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.
Follow that hunch
Could it be the Austral Union Special fitted with a Jaguar XK120 engine?
Not that one
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.
Well solved! Here's the completed car: