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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2014 => Topic started by: barrett on November 04, 2014, 07:10:14 PM

Title: barrett's #378 - Solved - First Gordano prototype, 1948
Post by: barrett on November 04, 2014, 07:10:14 PM
We have seen something like this before... what is this car and from when does it date?
Title: Re: barrett's #378
Post by: barrett on November 20, 2014, 01:33:46 PM
Experts...
Title: Re: barrett's #378
Post by: barrett on November 30, 2014, 07:34:56 AM
Pros...
Title: Re: barrett's #378
Post by: nicanary on November 30, 2014, 07:38:46 AM
Gordano -repost.

Whoops, maybe it's not! Very hasty of me and I apologise for my brusqueness.
Title: Re: barrett's #378
Post by: nicanary on November 30, 2014, 10:56:59 AM
It's not a repost. This is the prototype Gordano from 1948.
Title: Re: barrett's #378
Post by: barrett on December 03, 2014, 05:09:04 AM
Correct! We've seen the artist's impression used to promote the car, but never the car itself.

I'm still searching for a photograph of the other Gordano, which had a saloon body and survived until at least the 1980s. There must be an image of it somewhere?
Title: Re: barrett's #378
Post by: nicanary on December 03, 2014, 06:17:43 AM
Quote from: barrett on December 03, 2014, 05:09:04 AM
Correct! We've seen the artist's impression used to promote the car, but never the car itself.

I'm still searching for a photograph of the other Gordano, which had a saloon body and survived until at least the 1980s. There must be an image of it somewhere?

I think we all would - it's become one of those myths/legends of 1950s British sports cars. MJW has an unsolved puzzle somewhere in the Pros of a gullwing coupe which looks awfully like a Gordano, but nobody has any proof.