Solved NIC#536 - Luna-JAP of D G S Cotter

[nicanary]

Please tell me what this car is called.

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Experts?

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Pros under 400 points?

[Allan L]

It looks like a Formula 3 job, so I expect it's on a well-known site but I have yet to find it.
Looks like front-drive as those look like BSA front wheels and the driver is too low for a drive-line to get past him. As it isn't Emeryson, the FWD idea doesn't help me find it.

[nicanary]

It looks like a Formula 3 job, so I expect it's on a well-known site but I have yet to find it.
Looks like front-drive as those look like BSA front wheels and the driver is too low for a drive-line to get past him. As it isn't Emeryson, the FWD idea doesn't help me find it.

It's almost certainly FWD I'd say, although the power unit is nothing to do with BSA. That certain site is worth sticking to.......

[Allan L]

The BSA unit was too large for F3 so it was probably JAP-engined. That, being the most common power for the tiddlers, also does not help.
As there are a lot of marques on that site in alphabetical order, wherever you start looking it takes a long time, so I'll perhaps come back on this some day!

[nicanary]

The BSA unit was too large for F3 so it was probably JAP-engined. That, being the most common power for the tiddlers, also does not help.
As there are a lot of marques on that site in alphabetical order, wherever you start looking it takes a long time, so I'll perhaps come back on this some day!

It was indeed JAP engined. Whichever end of the alphabet you start from, it'll take some time!

[Allan L]

Thanks for the hint and I started in the middle.
It is called Luna but they have nothing to tell us about it, except it was driven by DGS Cotter in period.
Not a common name and I wonder if the Duncan Cotter I came across racing an MG in the 1980s was a relative.

[nicanary]

Thanks for the hint and I started in the middle.
It is called Luna but they have nothing to tell us about it, except it was driven by DGS Cotter in period.
Not a common name and I wonder if the Duncan Cotter I came across racing an MG in the 1980s was a relative.

I'm pleased that you understood my clue. It's easy to spend all day on that site. I thought maybe you would use a pin to select a marque, and then we could have called it a cotter pin  .

Another point to you.

[nicanary]

The car was active from 1958 to 1960  - quite astonishing really that a front-engined home-engineered car would still be built as late as that. Clearly it provided the builder with much fun, especially at "dress like Beau Geste" meetings.

[D-type]

Make, engine, formula and year (of the photo) please

[D-type]

Experts?

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Pros?

[nicanary]

Austin 7 special?

[D-type]

No

[nicanary]

1172 Formula ?

[D-type]

No

[nicanary]

I know this car from somewhere in the deep recesses of my ageing mind.  Is it Reg Phillips' Fairley F3 car?

[D-type]

Dig deeper into the dark recesses.  It is a 500cc Formula 3 car, but nothing to do with Reg Phillips so not a (or is it "the") Farley

[nicanary]

Is this the Luna JAP of DGSCotter ?

[D-type]

Spot on.

[nicanary]

Merged - it was one of mine and I'd completely forgotten! I think the dreaded hyphenitis struck again.