Solved NIC#1035 - Hillman Aero Minx Special (rebodied)

[nicanary]

Hillman?

YES! I'm going to LOCK this spuzzle for targhediferro. What model of Hillman ?

[targhediferro]

Wow...I've gone fishing, and I got it!  Now, assuming the base is from the second half of the thirties, Hillman produced three cars, the Minx, the Fourteen and the Eighty.  This car doesn't seem big enough to be a Fourteen or a Eighty, so I suppose it could be Hillman Minx based.

[nicanary]

Wow...I've gone fishing, and I got it!  Now, assuming the base is from the second half of the thirties, Hillman produced three cars, the Minx, the Fourteen and the Eighty.  This car doesn't seem big enough to be a Fourteen or a Eighty, so I suppose it could be Hillman Minx based.

And we have a winner. It's captioned as a Hillman Aero Minx Special. That's all I know, but since the image is taken from a site which specialises in that make and model I have assumed that the curator of the site knows what he's talking about.

You got lucky with your fishing!

[targhediferro]

Thank you....so we don't know who's responsible for this hard transformation?

[Allan L]

There's nothing visible that would be on an Aero Minx. If as you say it's on a dedicated website then I'd like the person who put it up to give us an explanation. Here (with luck) is a normal Aero Minx for comparison:

[nicanary]

I have e-mailed the registrar asking for information.

[nicanary]

I have had a hearteningly fast reply, which makes a change from most enquiries of this sort. The guy is called Tim Green, and all he can tell me is that he was sent the image by a third party who reckoned it is an Aero Minx rebodied in the 1960s. That third party has never followed up with further information. So we know no more.

I wonder if it simply a Minx engine fitted into a proprietary chassis, such as a Convair, with another off-the-shelf body on top.