barrett's #378 - Solved - First Gordano prototype, 1948

[barrett]

We have seen something like this before... what is this car and from when does it date?

[barrett]

Experts...

[barrett]

Pros...

[nicanary]

Gordano -repost.

Whoops, maybe it's not! Very hasty of me and I apologise for my brusqueness.

[nicanary]

It's not a repost. This is the prototype Gordano from 1948.

[barrett]

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?

[nicanary]

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.