Solved - NEH 2971: KM-300 Lotus by North Strathfield Service Station

[Carnut]

What's this, bodied by whom, when - for 1 point?:

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[Carnut]

Experts?

[D-type]

Buckler?

[Oswald]

Or Mistral?

[Carnut]

Buckler?

Not a Buckler..

Or Mistral?

It certainly looks like a Microplas Mistral body to me, although the builder didn't admit that so it may just be a copy.
The answer I'm looking for doesn't include any reference to the Mistral though; I need the underpinnings and builder (who claimed to have made the body..)

[Carnut]

Professionals?

[nicanary]

If the Mistral body fits, the base chassis can't be too big. MG T-series?

[dzima1985]

Aussie K-M 300 by Lotus Cars, 1957

[Carnut]

That's the car.
Actuallly my source never mentioned the KM-300, just that it was a Lotus bodied in Australia by North Strathfield Service Station..  But now I see from you picture that it was called the KM-300, though it looks completely different from the KM-300 we've had before:

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=16754.msg162967#msg162967

Anyway, well done and 1 point to you.

[Carnut]

Actuallly my source never mentioned the KM-300, just that it was a Lotus bodied in Australia by North Strathfield Service Station..  But now I see from you picture that it was called the KM-300, though it looks completely different from the KM-300 we've had before:

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=16754.msg162967#msg162967

See what I mean - the picture below is from the November 1957 issue of Australian magazine Sports Car World; read the caption!: