Who knows this car?
One point only for the correct basis car AND the correct coachbuilding company...
Puzzle pic changed...
Quote from: grobmotorix on November 01, 2015, 10:36:45 AM
Puzzle pic changed...
To this one!:
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=31934.0
The browser had a real problem showing the current topic - so this mess came out - sorry guys.
Here´s a new photo...
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I need some admininstrator´s help, please to place this puzzle in the expert´s section.
I put this in the wrong category unintentionally and cannot remove it from here... :P
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It is supposed to look like a Mercedes-Benz S/SS/SSK. But I guess that it isn't one, isn't it?
It looks about the size of an Aston Martin International. The number of exhaust pipes suggest a 4-cylinder engine.
Is it British?
Wendax:
It is not even a Mercedes-Benz as they merged a few years after this chassis has been built.
So it is no S/SS or SSK.
But you´re on to something...
nicanary:
the bodywork is British.
Mercedes chassis ?
Yes - it is based upon a Mercedes race car...
Based on a 1923 Mercedes 2-Liter Rennwagen ?
Mercedes 10/40/65 ?
No and no - it´s a big engine of a powerful racecar from before 1923...
1921 Mercedes 28/95 ?
LOCKED for you.
It is indeed based upon a 1922 28/95 Targa Florio race car model.
The puzzle car should be one of those five:
Can't find anything about a Targa Florio Mercedes converted to road use.
Wild guess : coachbuilt by Bertelli ?
Not Bertelli.
Two more guesses.
Abbott ?
Abbott
Bertelli
Corsica ?
Abbott
Bertelli
Corsica
Open for all again!
This is causing me nightmares. The exhaust arrangement suggests a 4-cylinder engine, but the 28/95 had 6 cylinders.
The Mercedes team for the 1922 Targa Florio comprised 7 cars - 2 X 28/95 models, 2 X new 1.5-litre supercharged cars, and 4 of the pre-WW1 1914 Grand Prix cars. These latter cars had 4 cylinders, and I know that Brooklands regular C G Brocklebank had one which was converted by L C Rawlance into a road-going car. HOWEVER - that was in 1923, and this car is bodied in a style which would have been around 1928-1932.
Sorry. Obviously I don't know the answer. These are just observations.
Ooooohh, sorry guys.
The car was a 1,5 liter Kompressor 1922 Targa Florio racer in its earlier life, and did NOT have the big 28/95HP engine...
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However I do not have the names Rawlance and Brocklebank...
Restart!
Coachbuilt by Carlton ?
Abbott
Bertelli
Carlton
Corsica
Obscure coachbuilder ?
To help massively: they were located in Surrey
Hoyal?
Abbott
Bertelli
Carlton
Corsica
Hoyal
Compton & Hermon?
Abbott
Bertelli
Carlton
Compton & Hermon
Corsica
Hoyal
Newns?
BAM!
Quote from: grobmotorix on January 02, 2016, 06:24:46 AM
BAM!
I don't know why I didn't think of it before - they specialised in lightweight road bodies for cars like Railton and Lagonda.