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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2018 => Topic started by: Carnut on July 17, 2018, 02:10:51 PM
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What's this car, for 1 point?:
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Experts?
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Any MG connection?
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Any MG connection?
None.
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It's a Falcon Carribean Mk III isn't it, and judging by the wheels probably fitted to a Triumph Herald chassis.
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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?
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DKW?
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The wheels look as if they're from an Morris/Austin 1100. :o
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DKW?
No.
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!
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Obvious, ie stupid, question: is it front-engined?
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Yes it is.
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Is it Ford powered?
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Yes.
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So is it sitting on a chassis from another manufacturer like Fairthorpe or Turner?
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Yes it is!
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DKW?
No.
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
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Well Falcons sometimes ran with Terrier chasses and even Elva chasses. Is either the case with this one?
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Neither of those..
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tornado?
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tornado?
Rochdale Tornado? No, it is a marque in its own right rather than a kit car.
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Lotus?
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Lotus?
No.
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There was Falcon Competition with am MGA chassis and Ford Engine, has anyone tried it on a MKIII?
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It's not on an MGA chassis!
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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?
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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..
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Singer Roadster?
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Good guess but no..
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Well the more obvious one is Buckler …………………...
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Well the more obvious one is Buckler …………………...
It's not a Buckler but you are getting warmer...
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HRG?
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Is it perchance a Tojeiro chassis?
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Is it perchance a Tojeiro chassis?
No..
HRG?
Not an HRG but you're getting warmer still!
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DELLOW?
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DELLOW?
Yes!
Locked for you to complete the answers.
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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
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Shame that the original non too pretty was not retained
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oops- It was an alloy body ……..
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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!