Name this car....

[Michael Hiles]

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Dunk, do you have a photo you can post?

 

Meantime, who can name the make of the vehicle piece that passed me on the highway yesterday: 

 

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It is moments like this that the C-Lux 2 in my cup holder is for.

 

Looks like a rogue unicycle.

[wlaidlaw]

Interesting that the hub is still on that wheel. The stub axle must have sheared. 

[dkCambridgeshire]

Renault Dauphine c.1960s

 

dunk

[mikemgb]

Renault Dauphine c.1960s

 

dunk

Well that didn't last long!

[dkCambridgeshire]

Thanks Mike - The Dauphine was a very common utilitarian car during the 60s.   I'll post another mystery car later this evening - unless anyone else wishes to step in with something now. 

 

Cheers

 

dunk

[wlaidlaw]

What did the label "Aerostable" with two arrows on the engine cover of the Dauphine mean? My mother had the slightly later "sports" Caravelle version in the early 1960's, the one after the Floride, and from my memory of driving the horrible thing, "stable" was the last adjective you would apply to it. Its sudden descent into instant oversteer was a good learning process for my various 911's afterwards   Luckily my mother never drove it anywhere near fast enough to encounter this phenomenon. 

[mikemgb]

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Interesting that the hub is still on that wheel. The stub axle must have sheared. 

 

I caught video of it on my dash cam. 

[mikemgb]

Thanks Mike - The Dauphine was a very common utilitarian car during the 60s.   I'll post another mystery car later this evening - unless anyone else wishes to step in with something now. 

 

Cheers

 

dunk

 

I don't remember them at all, probably because my father and his social group would never consider driving anything "foreign" so I didn't know anyone that had one.

[dkCambridgeshire]

My college tutors drove Renault Dauphines … or Triumph Herald / Vitesse models. Latter were 'contagious' and most of the tutors bought them. 

 

dunk

[mikemgb]

We had a Herald, and an A30, a Standard Ensign, several Hillmans, a woodie Mini and many more, my father tended to go through cars rather quickly. He never had a foreign car until he bought a Simca in about 1980.

[Michael Hiles]

I caught video of it on my dash cam. 

 

And the bozo keeps driving. (excellent title - didn't BB King have a guitar called Loose Wheel?)). 

[mikemgb]

And the bozo keeps driving. (excellent title - didn't BB King have a guitar called Loose Wheel?)). 

 

I think he must have lost his brakes at the same time, he got onto the shoulder and gradually slowed, it took almost a mile to come to a full stop, the driver looked very shocked when I passed him.

 

BB King name all his guitars the same, Loose Wheel or Lucille or something like that. 

[Manoleica]

I have just ordered a Dashcam, looking forward to using it on our forthcoming vacation..  many many moons ago I had the front right wheel bearing go on a Rover 3ltr, heard the grinding and was able to pull into a side street (Cricklewood area) just before the wheel abandoned the vehicle..      In the late 60's the Dauphine was used by what one might call the very first (in the UK) MiniCab company (they even had a meter) - it was a by phone booking, eventually the guys started lurking around pubs, hotels, West London Air Terminal, and restaurants etc. etc..  It then became a free for all, the London Black Cabs went on strike and so the minicab business grew & grew.. 

[wlaidlaw]

Morris Minors were notorious for stripping the thread on the brass bottom trunnion of their front suspension and the torsion bar would then fling the bottom edge of the wheel outwards, so they ended up sitting on the ground with extreme negative camber (about 40º). The reason for this is that everyone assumed without reading the manual, that as it had a grease nipple on it, it was supposed to be greased. You were actually supposed to use heavy axle oil to lubricate it, like on many vintage cars. If they had put an oil nipple on it, everyone would have realised but that would have cost Morris another 10 pence per car. This is what an oil nipple looks like and you need an oil gun to use with it. 

 

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[dkCambridgeshire]

Here's the next car with a clue: 

 

Body for this 'Series' model was made for the car-maker/designer by an aeroplane manufacturer - so if you know your cars you might be able to identify the series number.

 

Please state both the make and the model - if you know the make you're likely to know the model too. 

 

 

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That's me on my knees with my camera in the reflections … 'bowing'  … and wishing I had £80K to buy one. 

 

 

Good luck

 

dunk

Edited August 10, 2016 by dkCambridgeshire

[John Z. Goriup]

Lotus Elite, the first series, I believe they were also referred to as Type 14.............the little chrome rib in the vent window and the familiar yellow background field of the shift knob medallion are dead giveaways. I too have lusted after an Elite for a very long time, but alas, I just can't fit in one. 

 

JZG

[dkCambridgeshire]

You've got it!  But it's a 1962 Lotus Elite Series 2 with body made by Bristol Aeroplane Co. 

 

 

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This example was exhibited at recent Bourne Classic Car event 

 

 

Your turn John 

 

dunk

 

[dkCambridgeshire]

Two more unused 'clue' pics 

 

 

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Very attractive car 

 

 

dunk 

[wlaidlaw]

About 30 years ago I tried to help a friend repair one of the early Maximar Mouldings (better known for small fibreglass fishing and rowing boats) Mk1 bodies. Most of the threaded bobbins' bonding to the monocoque body shell was coming away, both the front sub frame and hoop were rusted beyond redemption. In the end we decided it was better to transfer all the mechanicals to a new body shell, hoop and subframe, which was made by a company using part of Vegantune's premises up in Norfolk. He has still had problems with the bobbins parting company with the body but nowadays you can re-bond them very permanently to the body shell with woven carbon fibre pre-preg tape. It's marvellous stuff. I have just repaired the splitting aluminium body shell of my three wheeler Morgan with it. Somewhere, I still have a set of cam setting tools for the FWE/FWA/FPF engines.

 

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[John Z. Goriup]

Dunk,

 

I very much enjoy this 'game' and am happy I was able to identify the Lotus, but must pass my turn on to someone else since it completely slipped my increasingly feeble mind that we're leaving later today for Carmel to attend this year's Monterey Car Week, which ends with my favorite automotive event of the entire year......the fabled Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.

 

The upside is that I usually obtain about 3-4000 new images of cars that don't come out to play very often and that next to Goodwood and the LeMans Classique event constitute about the only opportunity for mere moratls to get close to these treasures and to photograph them without restrictions.

 

JZG