Classic sportscar looks.
For one point, please respond and identify this car.
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up again
Italian body and chassis ?
Twice no
Swiss body on British chassis ?
British chassis
Byers MG?
MG, but not the Byers one
Not from the States, right?
If I recall it correctly, it was from the States. I'll have a second look tonight.
It looks a bit like one of the Allied Fiber-Glass shells. Any connection?
Not that I know of
It looks so much like a Motto body, and has hints of a Siata. Is there any connection to Ernie McAfee ?
Any Inskip connection ?
Quote from: nicanary on September 09, 2015, 12:20:43 PM
It looks so much like a Motto body, and has hints of a Siata. Is there any connection to Ernie McAfee ?
Quote from: oko94 on September 09, 2015, 12:40:33 PM
Any Inskip connection ?
No to both
Quote from: Paul Jaray on September 09, 2015, 04:38:05 AM
Not from the States, right?
Quote from: Wendax on September 09, 2015, 04:57:41 AM
If I recall it correctly, it was from the States. I'll have a second look tonight.
It is from the US.
Fiberglass body ?
yes
MG TD-based ?
yes
1955 MG Hawk Special Roadster.
It's there on the first page of Google - I've no idea why I didn't look!
Correct! One more point for you.
Quote from: Wendax on September 10, 2015, 06:11:45 AM
Correct! One more point for you.
Your photo doesn't show the portholes in the front flank - it looks just like a Vignale Ferrari 225.
I didn't alter that. The portholes must be a later addition.
Quote from: nicanary on September 10, 2015, 06:09:55 AM
1955 MG Hawk Special Roadster.
It's there on the first page of Google - I've no idea why I didn't look!
Not on my computer it doesn't!
Entering 'MG Hawk Special 1955' produces several pages of pictures of Studebakers, a few Humbers and a couple of pics of a jazz trumpeter and that's about it. No MGs at all!
Edit:
That was asking for Images; if you do a web search then top comes the RM Auctions site where this car was sold recently for $77,000.
Over here the car can be found via a simple Web search but strangely the pictures don't appear via an Image search...
Quote from: oko94 on September 10, 2015, 07:49:22 AM
Over here the car can be found via a simple Web search but strangely the pictures don't appear via an Image search...
Yes - I've just found exactly the same thing here..
Sorry, I didn't explain myself properly. I couldn't find it on Google images, but hadn't bothered to try a full web search. As soon as I did, entering "fiberglass MG TD America", it was there in front of me. That will teach me not to rely on Images, and to do a bit more work next time.
Interesting history to this car.
Quote from: nicanary on September 10, 2015, 08:53:07 AM
As soon as I did, entering "fiberglass MG TD America", it was there in front of me.
While researching this puzzle I tried " MG TD fiberglass USA" but it didn't work :-\ Search engines are cruel sometimes !
Quote from: oko94 on September 10, 2015, 09:00:36 AM
Quote from: nicanary on September 10, 2015, 08:53:07 AM
As soon as I did, entering "fiberglass MG TD America", it was there in front of me.
While researching this puzzle I tried " MG TD fiberglass USA" but it didn't work :-\ Search engines are cruel sometimes !
They're not half as good as Google think they are.
Whilst sometimes they're brilliant, they will latch on to words they know.
So if you are looking for, say, an etceterini and put in Fiat ... Barchetta you'll get pages and pages of the latest Fiat Barchetta and zilch from the era you're looking for. If the car you're looking for happens to have a name that's the same as, say, a pop star or film star then
all you'll get is pages of that person.. And it's no good telling it not to do that, as it can't understand English or any other language!
How it looks today: