Please tell me the chassis, engine, bodywork and driver. All for just one point.
Note that this is Autopuzzles. Things are never what they seem.
UK engine?
Jaguar engine?
Coventry Climax?
Experts?
Arnott, Lea-Francis engine, fibreglass shell, Daphne Arnott ?
Quote from: FrontMan on July 18, 2021, 08:36:01 AM
Arnott, Lea-Francis engine, fibreglass shell, Daphne Arnott ?
None of the above. Sorry.
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Armstrong Siddeley engine perhaps ?
Quote from: Willie McCrum on July 19, 2021, 04:52:48 AM
Armstrong Siddeley engine perhaps ?
No. That'd be the Sphinx.
PS I didn't ask for the name of the circuit but it's not a million miles from Willie McCrum.
Lester-MG ?
Ah yes, a (probably very small) part of the DP155 saga. Driven by a peer of the realm (choine of two) at the circuit which lies right outside my office window. I was fooled by the grassy hummock in the background, but of course that's not there any more....
I've a feeling the pilot os Lord Dunleath, the engine could be Aston Martin, or possibly Jaguar and the rest of it...
HMMMM
There are differing accounts, and I don't have my excellend Simon Taylor book to hand, but HWM may well be implicated....
You're almost there Willie. I may have mislead you - it's not Kirkistown but Long Kesh. The owner/driver lived just a few miles from Portavogie, at Ballywalter Park. I've met the current Lord and Lady, but at the time I didn't know the history of this car, and failed to ask if I could have a look round the stables which in the 1950s were used as the workshop for Lord Dunleath's mechanics.
Yes - you know you're correct. It's HWM chassis FB103, one of the 1950 team cars, fitted by now with the engine from an Aston Martin DB2/4. Picture from 1958. These days of course it's worth more money reverted back to HWM form. Go on - find out what bodywork that is.
LOCKED.
Aah. Lord Henry Dunleath, the current Lord , Brian by name, is perhaps less petrol headed, although he did host a gathering of the Banjafield Club some years ago, and sent a posse of Bentley boys down to Kirkistown to play one afternoon - great fun !
As for the HWM/Aston/ Lord knows what else, the rear body section has a definite DB3S loiok to it, but so did at least one Cooper Bristol, while the front end reminds me of a photograph I once saw of an RGS Atlanta. Any nuggets there ?
Still locked for you.
Not the answer I'm afraid. The bodyshell usually makes people think it's GRP from a well-known maker with hints of Gracie Fields, but in fact it's the donor which created the mould.
The present Lord Dunleath is far more interested in pheasant-rearing. Their corpses litter the road round the park in breeding season. Great for a tasty supper if they're fresh - less so if they've been lying and nibbled by foxes and crows.
I think it might be better if you were to unlock this - and the Riley one as well. That would clear the way for somebody who REALLY knows - and educate me in the process....
Willie
OK Willie, but you've identified the car in question and I'm awarding a point.
UNLOCKED for someone to identidy the source of this car's bodywork. My clues are probably only meaningful to someone from the UK.
Hah !
I should have looked at the book more closely....
Connaught !!!
Quote from: Willie McCrum on July 22, 2021, 02:36:50 AM
Hah !
I should have looked at the book more closely....
Connaught !!!
Yes! The bodywork came from Connaught AL/SR12. One of these bodies was of course used to create the mould for the Rochdale C-type, hence the reference to Gracie Fields, that town's most famous daughter.
Well-earned point.
BTW Simon Taylor's history of HWM is a corker.