What's this car, for 1 point?:
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Experts?
Any MG connection?
It's a Falcon Carribean Mk III isn't it, and judging by the wheels probably fitted to a Triumph Herald chassis.
Quote from: tobytwirl on August 05, 2018, 02:55:11 PM
It's a Falcon Carribean Mk III isn't it, and judging by the wheels probably fitted to a Triumph Herald chassis.
Yes, it is a Falcon body (bult I think the Caribbean was an FHC) but there's nothing Triumph there.
So the question remains: what does that body cover?
DKW?
The wheels look as if they're from an Morris/Austin 1100. :o
Quote from: tobytwirl on August 05, 2018, 09:24:04 PM
DKW?
No.
Quote from: richard cuyler on August 06, 2018, 06:35:49 AM
The wheels look as if they're from an Morris/Austin 1100. :o
They had round ones as well as I recall...
These may well be the same, I don't know. There are no Austin/Morris 1100 mechanical bits in there that I'm aware of!
Obvious, ie stupid, question: is it front-engined?
Yes it is.
Is it Ford powered?
Yes.
So is it sitting on a chassis from another manufacturer like Fairthorpe or Turner?
Yes it is!
Quote from: Carnut on August 06, 2018, 08:16:02 AM
Quote from: tobytwirl on August 05, 2018, 09:24:04 PM
DKW?
No.
Quote from: richard cuyler on August 06, 2018, 06:35:49 AM
The wheels look as if they're from an Morris/Austin 1100. :o
They had round ones as well as I recall...
;D Cheeky devil! I think I recognise them now, they're Ford 105E wheels..... :o
Well Falcons sometimes ran with Terrier chasses and even Elva chasses. Is either the case with this one?
Neither of those..
tornado?
Quote from: tobytwirl on August 07, 2018, 07:14:28 PM
tornado?
Rochdale Tornado? No, it is a marque in its own right rather than a kit car.
Lotus?
There was Falcon Competition with am MGA chassis and Ford Engine, has anyone tried it on a MKIII?
It's not on an MGA chassis!
This is perplexing- these later Falcons in my experience were not fitted to E93A Ford chasses but were usually fitted to Herald/Spitfire units, so I am trying to think of a 60s cars that also had a separate chassis of the right size - and drawing blanks except with the specialist cars already mentioned. There was a famous Sprite that was bodied by Falcon for Le Mans, presumably by bonding the fibreglass shell to the floorplan. Is this another attempt on a Sprite fitted with a Ford engine?
No Sprite connection.
The chassis is from the 1950s from a British marque you'll know, but they didn't make a lot of cars..
Singer Roadster?
Good guess but no..
Well the more obvious one is Buckler ........................
Quote from: tobytwirl on August 11, 2018, 07:27:56 AM
Well the more obvious one is Buckler ........................
It's not a Buckler but you are getting warmer...
HRG?
Is it perchance a Tojeiro chassis?
DELLOW?
Well now I have found it, the blurb describes it as a Dellow MKVI from 1958 which had suffered damage and had the alloy body replaced by this fibreglass Falcon unit. The engine is a one litre pre-crossflow Anglia unit.
The issue I have is that I believed the MkVI to be Dellows last stand - it was not the familiar trials car but an attempt to be a proper 2 seater road sportscar, and as such it had a full width fibreglass body already. I
Shame that the original non too pretty was not retained
oops- It was an alloy body ........
Exactly.
I imagine the original body was destroyed in the accident and was impossible to replace, hence the Falcon body instead.
The Dellow MkVI has been puzzled here before:
https://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2017-47/solved-393-by-allemano-dellow-mk-vi/msg427814/#msg427814
Well done!