Solved: Wendax 648 - Duncan Drone

[Wendax]

Another "I can't believe it wasn't posted before".

For one point, please respond and identify this car.

[Wendax]

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[Oswald]

1947-ish Healey-based Duncan Drone?

[Wendax]

It surely is. One point for you.

[Wendax]

The car was also known as the 2.4 Litre Healey-Duncan Competition 2-Seater.
Picture from a sunnier day:

[Carnut]

There's one For Sale now; some pictures below of it and another.
They say the idea was to fit this basic body so they could sell the car for under £1000, then the purchaser would have a coachbuilder design and fit a body to suit him.  I wonder how many did?!

[Allan L]

There's one For Sale now; some pictures below of it and another.
They say the idea was to fit this basic body so they could sell the car for under £1000, then the purchaser would have a coachbuilder design and fit a body to suit him.  I wonder how many did?!

Possibly more than you think!
Around the time we are dealing with, Purchase tax on passenger cars was levied at 33.33% of the basic price. If that price were £1000 or over Purchase tax was doubled to 66.67% - however if there were Purchase Tax on the coachbuilder's subsequent work and I'm not sure that would have been, it would have been at 33.33%.
Somewhere I've seen that the Elliott bodied Healey cost £2725 inc. PT, so the basic price would have been circa £1650

[Carnut]

Yes, it did actually say that the reason for keeping it under £1000 was to avoid the double rate of purchase tax; I should have added that!

[grobmotorix]

It must be tons of fun to drive this little special...