Solved: PN #527 -- Andy Graybeal's Kurtis-based custom 1954

[pnegyesi]

Please identify this car for a point. I don't think it had a name. I'd need at least the chassis, the shop where it was built, the name of the guy who designed it and a year.

[hermanoto]

Car: Kellison
Designer: Jim kellison.
Built in the 50's at Folsom, California
early Kellison's on Ford chassis with 302 inch engine
(later ones, the Kellison J-6, with Corvette C-1 chassis & Corvette engine)

[pnegyesi]

not a Kellison and nothing to do with Kellison

[pnegyesi]

Experts?

[hermanoto]

Astra 300 GT, Chevrolet chassis, pontiac engine

[pnegyesi]

you still try to find a way to connect this car to Kellison. Not an Astra and there's no Chevy engine underneath it

[hermanoto]

Austin-Healy based coupé

[pnegyesi]

no

[D-type]

Let's take a step back - is the car from the USA?

[hermanoto]

Sorrell SR-190

[pnegyesi]

from USA, not a Sorrell

[pnegyesi]

Professionals?

[nicanary]

It was built in 1954 at the shop of Gordon Vann, in Berkeley, California. The basis is a Kurtis chassis, and the body was designed by Andy Graybeal. (The internet has everything you need to know, if you know where to look !)

[pnegyesi]

Perfect answer!

[Carnut]

I was waiting for this one to move up so I could grab a hard-to-come-by Pro point..  That'll teach me not to wash my car instead of logging on to AutoPuzzles!

Apparently there's some Studebaker involved in the bodywork too.
Here's a rear view:

[Allemano]

the watermark of these pics is revealing BTW...