Solved: PN #311 -- Julian Cowan's Alf

[pnegyesi]

Please identify this car for a point

[pftnbr]

Lotus 11?

[pnegyesi]

pftnbr - let me welcome you to AutoPuzzles!

Here, nothing is what it seems, therefore this is not a Lotus 11

[pftnbr]

Didn't think it would be that easy!

[pftnbr]

Is it a 11 replica or based off the 11? (Or neither!)

[pnegyesi]

Neither

[pnegyesi]

Experts?

[hugo90]

Is it Australian?  Looks like a Holden next to it.  Australians made their own cars, with an import duty of 40% back then.

[pnegyesi]

Yes, this one is from Australia

[Otto Puzzell]

 

[RayTheRat]

I have it as a Regah-MG special.

[pnegyesi]

It is not that one

[Carnut]

I have it as a Regah-MG special.

It couldn't have been that one!:

www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=19902.0

[D-type]

HEA Simca ?

[RayTheRat]

I have it as a Regah-MG special.

It couldn't have been that one!:

www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=19902.0

Yeah...I realized that a short while later.  I'd forgotten where I'd found my source image.  Duh.   

[pnegyesi]

Not a Hea Simca

[pieter]

Elva? The ones I can remember were Lotus 23 based, though.

[pieter]

Oops, I think that should have been Elfin.

[pnegyesi]

Neither

[D-type]

I've found what appears to be another Aussie Lotus XI copy - the Decca Special?

[pnegyesi]

Keep looking - this is not a Decca

[D-type]

I found something described as a Lotus BB from 1969

[pnegyesi]

There's no Lotus in the name

[pnegyesi]

Professionals?

[Otto Puzzell]

That's the "Alf", Julian Cowan's Ford powered Lotus II look-a-like. the picture was taken at Caversham Raceway , Western Australia in the 1960s.