I'll swear this one has appeared before, but I can't find it so here it is (maybe again!)
Identify it correctly, who built it, what it's based on and what powers it, for 1 point:
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1953 James Craig's Gazelle/Navajo. Fibreglass body on Ford chassis, 170 hp Mercury engine..
Quote from: Hiawatha on November 15, 2013, 03:24:52 PM
1953 James Craig's Gazelle/Navajo. Fibreglass body on Ford chassis, 170 hp Mercury engine..
Indeed. Very good.
I wonder what Sir William Lyons would have made of it - seems we've seen a similar-looking car somewhere before. They do say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Quote from: nicanary on November 17, 2013, 05:37:54 PM
I wonder what Sir William Lyons would have made of it - seems we've seen a similar-looking car somewhere before. They do say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
I think he would have thought it a copy, but I think he would be a bit out of order because his own design was something of a copy already...! I can't remember exactly what of otherwise I would have posted it, but I found it last week and wondered why more hasn't been made of the fact that it resembled the later XK120 so much. I'll have to try to find it again.
Wasn't the XK120 design supposed to have been influenced by the BMW 328 Mille Miglia?
Quote from: Carnut on November 17, 2013, 05:35:19 PM
Quote from: Hiawatha on November 15, 2013, 03:24:52 PM
1953 James Craig's Gazelle/Navajo. Fibreglass body on Ford chassis, 170 hp Mercury engine..
Indeed. Very good.
In 1953 there was the
Gazelle; in 1954 there was the
Navajo. The Navajo, with its reworked grill, was a puzzle before:
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=6062.msg41737#msg41737
Quote from: Tom_I on November 17, 2013, 06:22:26 PM
Wasn't the XK120 design supposed to have been influenced by the BMW 328 Mille Miglia?
May well have been, but I found something else that at first glance could have been an XK120 but pre-dated it by some years..
I'll have to have a look for it if I get the time!
Maybe this is what you were thinking of. In addition, the shape of the XK120 Coupe was heavily influenced by Paul Pycroft's specially built SS100, in respect of the hardtop.