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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2013 => Topic started by: pnegyesi on May 25, 2013, 02:46:47 AM

Title: Solved: PN #495 -- Roy Watson in his Ford 10 special, 1954, New Zealand
Post by: pnegyesi on May 25, 2013, 02:46:47 AM
Please identify this car for a point. I need the country, name of builder, donor and year - for a measly point
Title: Re: PN #495
Post by: pnegyesi on June 04, 2013, 09:56:36 AM
Experts?
Title: Re: PN #495
Post by: D-type on June 04, 2013, 06:28:20 PM
Ford special from New Zealand?
Title: Re: PN #495
Post by: pnegyesi on June 22, 2013, 06:22:34 AM
Ooops, somehow I totally missed this. Yes, a Ford special from NZ, locked for you to find its builder
Title: Re: PN #495
Post by: D-type on June 27, 2013, 01:42:02 PM
Please unlock it.  I have no firm knowledge to go on.
Title: Re: PN #495
Post by: pnegyesi on June 27, 2013, 03:16:52 PM
Unlocked and promoted
Title: Re: PN #495
Post by: nicanary on June 28, 2013, 06:25:04 AM
Ford 3.6 V8 or 1172sv ?
Title: Re: PN #495
Post by: pnegyesi on June 28, 2013, 01:25:27 PM
1172
Title: Re: PN #495
Post by: nicanary on June 28, 2013, 07:10:14 PM
Is the driver Ron Hurst ?
Title: Re: PN #495
Post by: pnegyesi on June 28, 2013, 11:54:59 PM
no
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Post by: nicanary on June 29, 2013, 05:16:26 AM
Don Tilsley's Singford special ?
Title: Re: PN #495
Post by: pnegyesi on June 29, 2013, 02:55:15 PM
no
Title: Re: PN #495
Post by: nicanary on June 30, 2013, 12:47:16 PM
Doug Haigh in his Ford 10 Special 1952 ?

(I'm sorry, but I cannot find any images of these cars, so I'm just running through any I can find that fit the criteria !)
Title: Re: PN #495
Post by: pnegyesi on June 30, 2013, 02:09:00 PM
It is a Ford 10 special, a bit younger than 1952 and not Don Haigh
Title: Re: PN #495
Post by: nicanary on June 30, 2013, 02:30:36 PM
Quote from: pnegyesi on June 30, 2013, 02:09:00 PM
It is a Ford 10 special, a bit younger than 1952 and not Don Haigh

I've found 12 different Ford 1172 Specials which raced in New Zealand between 1953 and 1956, by which time they were being easily beaten by imported machinery.

Where do I start? How about the 1955 GBS/Ford of Ian Buchanan ?
Title: Re: PN #495
Post by: pnegyesi on June 30, 2013, 03:11:55 PM
Slightly, just a teeny bit older
Title: Re: PN #495
Post by: nicanary on June 30, 2013, 03:27:46 PM
1954. Jim Carrick ?
Title: Re: PN #495
Post by: pnegyesi on June 30, 2013, 03:42:23 PM
yes, 1954 and no, not him
Title: Re: PN #495
Post by: nicanary on June 30, 2013, 04:58:36 PM
Jock Aitken ?
Title: Re: PN #495
Post by: pnegyesi on July 01, 2013, 12:10:42 AM
No
Title: Re: PN #495
Post by: nicanary on July 01, 2013, 05:28:30 AM
Just a few more to go...

Frank Pope ?
Title: Re: PN #495
Post by: pnegyesi on July 01, 2013, 05:36:56 AM
The answer is available online. Not him
Title: Re: PN #495
Post by: nicanary on July 01, 2013, 10:40:59 AM
I can't find it. :-[

It looks very similar to John McMillan's Jackson Special, but that was powered by a Ford V8. Maybe it was first fitted with a smaller engine ?
Title: Re: PN #495
Post by: pnegyesi on July 01, 2013, 12:20:43 PM
not that
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Post by: faksta on July 01, 2013, 02:46:13 PM
Roy Watson in 1954 racing near Havelock on a grass track, according to what I could find. Think the picture in my source is the same :)
Title: Re: PN #495
Post by: pnegyesi on July 01, 2013, 03:34:00 PM
Sorry nicanary, faksta found it
Title: Re: Solved: PN #495 -- Roy Watson in his Ford 10 special, 1954, New Zealand
Post by: nicanary on July 01, 2013, 06:37:23 PM
No need to apologise. I was simply guessing, which doesn't usually get you anywhere on Autopuzzles. Another interesting site for me to remember.
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