Solved: Allemano's № 641 - Rabelro Special

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Allemano

June 27, 2011, 07:24:35 AM
A well dressed man in a well running car.

Please respond below if you know what's the name of this vehicle.
One point for the right and complete answer!

Allemano

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July 04, 2011, 05:08:18 AM
promoted.

Allemano

#2
July 13, 2011, 04:26:37 AM
again..

Otto Puzzell

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July 13, 2011, 04:41:52 AM Last Edit: July 13, 2011, 05:00:05 AM by Otto Puzzell
"Rabelro" began its life in the late 1920s. Once known as the "Keith Anderson special".  It was fitted with a GN Akela supercharged engine with a MG front axle which was underslung the extruded aluminum chassis that is said to be off an aircraft. The transmission was GN. Anderson apparently never really got the blown GN engine to go very well and he got fed up with it and put it for sale.

Racer Nigel Orlebar bought the car around 1937. He campaigned it for a short while in the form described.  He soon tired of the Akela engine, and installed a 1926 AC engine  which £10.00. Lucky man - he took it back to his digs which were apparently near Weybridge. Nigel wanted to race at Brooklands. He affixed an Amilcar body
and the AC engine to the car, and swapped in a Frazer Nash front end. He modified Amilcar body into a single seater, and built a steel tube frame. He dubbed the car "Rabelro" - Orlebar spelt backwards.

In 1948 Orlebar sold the car to William Nicholson, who is shown driving the car in the puzzle pic.
You wanna be the man, you gotta Name That Car!

Allemano

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July 13, 2011, 04:59:41 AM
Seems your heyday has broken..  :)

Very well done!

Allan L

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July 13, 2011, 06:14:15 AM
Looks like this now:

Opinionated but sometimes wrong

Carnut

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July 11, 2014, 08:17:18 AM Last Edit: July 11, 2014, 02:06:13 PM by Carnut

Maybe you can post it again Allan as I can't see it on my computer or open it!

Interests in life:  Cars, cars, cars - oh and ..er..cars

Allan L

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July 11, 2014, 09:36:28 AM Last Edit: July 11, 2014, 09:41:28 AM by Allan L
Well where to start?
I was misled into thinking that there was but one Rabelro and the site I linked to has disappeared completely now.
The Orlebar Schneider Le Mans is very different from the AC-engined GN-based Amilcar-bodied racer being based on a 1939 English Ford and built for racing at Le Mans.
It was sold at auction a few years ago and the details are here (at present!):
http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z18030/Orlebar-Schneider-Le-Mans-Special.aspx.aspx

The Rabelro now looks like this:
http://vintageman.zenfolio.com/p879698135/h3A42E009#h3a42e009
Opinionated but sometimes wrong
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