1 point for identifying what this car is and when it dates from:
Austin Healey Sprite with a modified bonnet clip?
Quote from: diecastaussie on August 08, 2010, 05:51:08 AM
Austin Healey Sprite with a modified bonnet clip?
No relation!
Is it based on a Jaguar?
I know some Experts who'll sort this one out in a jiffy..
RGS-Atalanta Jaguar
Quote from: woodinsight on August 20, 2010, 05:35:05 AM
RGS-Atalanta Jaguar
Dating from (to answer the initial question)?
Locked for your reply.
1953
Yes!
It's based on a Jaguar C-Type.
Quote from: Carnut on August 20, 2010, 11:15:04 AM
Yes!
It's based on a Jaguar C-Type.
Might have had a C-type
engine for all I can remember, but Dick Shattock's cars were based on the Atalanta chassis (as you might expect from the name) with his own GRP body. Can't remember how many he made, but I do remember seeing him race one at Silverstone in the early 1960s
Exactly Allan. There's an interesting story waiting to be told there.
Here's a front view:
What's this, powered by what - for 1 point?:
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It is the 1953 RGS Atalanta powered by a C-type Jaguar engine
Quote from: tobytwirl on August 20, 2016, 01:47:50 PM
It is the 1953 RGS Atalanta powered by a C-type Jaguar engine
Yes it is.
I was convinced we've had this exact car before but I can't find it anywhere..
Well done.
The old hyphen again! ;)
Merged
D'oh!
As I was going to write last time we had this, but didn't for some reason, I bet it was never as smart as that even when brand new. When I saw Dick Shattock racing one in the 1960s it certainly was scruffy and I have a feeling there was only ever one of them.
Interestingly the vendor whose photos have been used in this thread, claims it has a metal body although he does say "(most Atalantas were fiberglass)" but then as he also says it has "De-dion style rear end with independent front & rear suspension" he can't be very clued-up. If it's i.r.s. (which the RGS-Atalanta was) it is not de dion.