What's this, powered by what, built by whom, when - for 1 point?:
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Experts?
Pro's with fewer than 400 points?
An all-american car ?
Australian?
Now open to all Pro's..
Falcon shell?
...or Buchanan?
Looks like an Ausca too...but I'm sure it's named after someone, right?
Quote from: Paul Jaray on April 29, 2016, 08:11:43 AM
Looks like an Ausca too...but I'm sure it's named after someone, right?
Yes, they all look a bit similar, but it's not an Ausca.
Its name does not include anyone's names.
I'm fairly sure that's a KM200 shell. I can't find any such cars that had a specific name - was this the Rene Neuens car?
Quote from: nicanary on April 30, 2016, 12:13:01 PM
I'm fairly sure that's a KM200 shell. I can't find any such cars that had a specific name - was this the Rene Neuens car?
It is a KM200 shell, yes, but that wasn't the builder.
Peugeot- engined?
Holden engine?
MG engine?
Did the builder manage to lay his hands on a Climax engine?
Quote from: D-type on June 08, 2016, 12:41:25 PM
Did the builder manage to lay his hands on a Climax engine?
'Fraid not..
Simca unit?
Quote from: nicanary on June 08, 2016, 01:18:01 PM
Simca unit?
Yes!
So I'll lock it for you for 24 hours to see if you can put this one to bed.
Is this the Geoff Bernhagen Simca Swallow?
Quote from: nicanary on June 09, 2016, 03:54:11 AM
Is this the Geoff Bernhagen Simca Swallow?
Indeed it is!
All I need now is the date of build and who else was involved in building it with Bernhagen?
Locked for nicanary of course!
It was the Brewer brothers of Austral Motors. Unfortunately the only reference to the car that I can find mentions very vaguely "the '50s" which is pretty obvious, I would have thought. Sorry I can't be more specific.
All right, we'll call it solved I think.
It was built by Geoff Bernhagen and the Brewer brothers in Queensland in 1956, using a KM200 body/chassis with Simca Aronde engine, gearbox and suspension.
Got there in the end!
Thanks for the point. I could find only one reference to this car on the whole of the 'net. This was a page concerning the original Nota which was being sold by a well-known Australian auction house, and one of the comments appended mentioned this car. It was a pure guess on my part, but an educated one, because the Neuens car I posted earlier in this thread was also Simca-engined, and the puzzle car had what looked like production car wheels.
I don't know how you find these puzzles!
PS whilst investigating this puzzle, I noticed that the Australian Simca owners' club is called Simca Swallow, and this seems to be what they call the Vedette model.