The picture isn't very good, but good enough for a puzzle.
For one point, please respond and identify this car by telling the base car, the builder and the year it was built.
Thanks for front page coverage! :thumbsup:
Moving up
Meteor Fiat???
MPC
No Fiat underneath
German?
No
Italian? Maybe Lancia?
MPC
Not Italian and no Lancia underneath
Reaching pro level
French?
No
German?
from Europe?
Not German, but European
Looks familiar somehow... Scandinavia?
Not Scandinavian
British?
Yes
Ford Ten-based?
No
Cooper underneath?
No
Jaguar?
No
A brand usually known for sporting cars?
The base car brand built sports cars as well as mainstream saloons.
Singer?
Yes, that was the easier part
Says you! :D
Any MG bits?
Not that I know of
:)
Sintin?
;D Nothing!
Was it published in a German oldtimer mag? (http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g106/pan1968/Gifs/skeptisch.gif)
I don't think so
Hoare?
No
Singer-based but is it from Australia/New Zealand?
British
Racing into the Black Hole
Austin 7 based ???
No, we already had it identified as Singer-based.
Maybe more pictures available?
Voilà
Found this one while researching one of faksta's puzzles this morning - not surprising really as I think many puzzles are solved that way.
The car is the Harbinson Special built by Robert Harbinson in 1951.
He created a one-off sports aluminium body and mounted it on a Singer Nine Bantam chassis.
The car was built for his own personal use.
As a short postscript, Harbinson left the UK in 1954 bound for Minneapolis in the USA. On his stopover in New York he was tracked down by Gordon "Tippy" Lipe to construct a sports body and install a Porsche engine in Lipe's Cooper.
This car - Cooper Mk VII chassis no.5 - is well known today racing in Historics driven by Cameron Healy (it was also a recent puzzle on this site).
The whereabouts of the Harbinson Special are unknown since an article appeared in Motor Sport magazine of January 1954.
:thumbsup:
Well done, Malcolm.
I think I stumbled across the Harbinson Special when looking for the "Pooper" (Porsche-Cooper) last year.
Two well-deserved points for you, and one more car escaped the hole. ;D
What's this, by whom, from when , for 1 point ! :)
Experts !
Peugeot 202 base?
Not Peugeot 202 base !
Is it british?
Yes !
Is it an Austin?
Not an Austin !
was this car a one-off?
Ford Ten based?
A one-off , but not Ford Ten based !
Pros !
It looks very similar to the small prototype Paramount which was a recent puzzle. I believe 2 cars were made at the time - is this the other one?
Not a Paramount !
Is it Morris based?
Not Morris based !
based on a buckler?
Lea-Francis base?
Not Lea-Francis base !
Is it based on a chassis made by a mainstream manufacturer ?
Yes !
Wolseley ?
Singer?
Triumph ?
Yes ! a Singer !
Have you the name of the builder ?
Locked for targhediferro !
I can't find this car...is perhaps the Jacques Savoye's one?
Not by Jacques Savoye !
It doesn't look like a fiberglass car, but I've no hint so I guess Kjell Qvale. Please unlock.
Not Kjell Qvale !
Sorry but unlocked
Austin Harbinson's Singer Special.
:applause:
Austin Harbinson's Singer Special.
Another point for P J :)
The magazine article is from the January 1954 issue of Motor Sport, and by coincidence I had been looking through it for clues about another puzzle car, but missed this page. Such is life.
The base was a Singer 9 Bantam.
...hmmm, I had it by some Robert Harbison....but then found an article with Austin...
I knew it looked familiar! :doh: :bag:
Here's a photo of the car without bodywork.
Found another information about this car, designated "A H Special" (A = Austin, H = Harbison), based on an Singer chassis (picture attached)