vanellus Posted June 4, 2017 Share #9861  Posted June 4, 2017 Advertisement (gone after registration) I think, it´s a Jowett Javelin from Bradford - UK Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted June 4, 2017 Posted June 4, 2017 Hi vanellus, Take a look here Name this car..... I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
dkCambridgeshire Posted June 4, 2017 Share #9862  Posted June 4, 2017 I think, it´s a Jowett Javelin from Bradford - UK  Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!     Correct … well done … photographed at recent Stilton Cheese Classic Car Rally 23 April at Stilton near Peterborough.  Your turn!  Best wishes  dunk Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!     Correct … well done … photographed at recent Stilton Cheese Classic Car Rally 23 April at Stilton near Peterborough.  Your turn!  Best wishes  dunk ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=3289095'>More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted June 4, 2017 Share #9863  Posted June 4, 2017 Could Jowett be the UK equivalent of Borgward, killed off by their competitors, jealous of their product? I have always found it surprising that one of the other UK manufacturers, in reasonably robust financial health, as many were at that time, from profitable war contracts, did not buy Jowett. That would have only been, if they did not have cars in that class in their range and if they could arrange a new source for the body panels. The obvious purchasers to me would either have been Armstrong Siddeley or Alvis, where the Javelin and Jupiter would have been complimentary to the other cars in their ranges. The Bradford van would not have fitted but that could have been sold on with an engine supply agreement to someone like Reliant, although they were pitifully slow, so maybe just killed off.  Jowett's car business was wound up in 1954, when Ford bought out Briggs Motor Bodies, who made and assembled the bodies for Jowett. The Javelin's chassis and suspension was designed by Dr. Eberan von Eberhorst who designed the final pre-war Auto-Union Grand Prix cars. The business was not well managed plus there were reliability problems on the early Javelins, which did nothing for their sales.  Wilson 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanellus Posted June 6, 2017 Share #9864  Posted June 6, 2017 (edited) Thank you dunk Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! I saw this car before in the forum, but the dashboard? Edited June 6, 2017 by vanellus Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! I saw this car before in the forum, but the dashboard? ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=3290481'>More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted June 6, 2017 Share #9865 Â Posted June 6, 2017 Jaguar SS1? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanellus Posted June 6, 2017 Share #9866 Â Posted June 6, 2017 Not as fast and not british racing green Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted June 6, 2017 Share #9867 Â Posted June 6, 2017 Advertisement (gone after registration) There is a Singer Nine Le Mans around in that intense green colour but the switch gear and ignition key do not look English but more French or German and I doubt if any Singers were made in LHD. Probably not Italian, as virtually all pre-war Italian cars are RHD (in Italy it varied from region to region and in some regions, you drove on one side out in the country and the other in large towns - only in Italy!! The US military authorities imposed driving on the right throughout Italy in 1944/45.) Â Wilson 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkCambridgeshire Posted June 6, 2017 Share #9868  Posted June 6, 2017 BMW 315-1 Roadster c.1935  dunk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanellus Posted June 7, 2017 Share #9869  Posted June 7, 2017 Quite near dunk, replace the first 5 of your guess with a nine, and the last with a 6 The 315-dashboard ist very similar Thank you, it´s your turn. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkCambridgeshire Posted June 7, 2017 Share #9870  Posted June 7, 2017 (edited) Thank you … the dash is distinctive.  Here's the next puzzle … and it is not a Bentley or RR:   Please state exact marque / model / variant.  If you can name the marque you should be able to add the model too … so please do not ask, " .. is it a … ?" without adding the model    Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!     Good luck.  dunk Edited June 7, 2017 by dkCambridgeshire Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!     Good luck.  dunk ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=3290967'>More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted June 7, 2017 Share #9871 Â Posted June 7, 2017 Triumph Mayflower? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted June 7, 2017 Share #9872 Â Posted June 7, 2017 On second thoughts, it is the bigger one, The Renown Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkCambridgeshire Posted June 7, 2017 Share #9873  Posted June 7, 2017 On second thoughts, it is the bigger one, The Renown    Yes you got it Wilson … it's the bigger Triumph Renown TDC … 75mph and 0-60mph in 30 seconds with its Standard Vanguard engine .   Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!       Your turn again.  Cheers  dunk Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!       Your turn again.  Cheers  dunk ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=3291023'>More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted June 7, 2017 Share #9874 Â Posted June 7, 2017 Can I wimp out pro-tem. I have just handed my new MacBook Pro to the UPS man to have its failing keyboard replaced and I am without tools to do things like resizing images to post. Anyone got any mystery car they would like to puzzle us with? Â Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkCambridgeshire Posted June 7, 2017 Share #9875  Posted June 7, 2017 (edited) if nobody else has something ready i can post another … but do not wish to hog the thread … so will wait until this evening before posting.    dunk Edited June 7, 2017 by dkCambridgeshire Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkP Posted June 7, 2017 Share #9876  Posted June 7, 2017 If I may interject, I have two. Probably too easy for you pros :-)  Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!   Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!   ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=3291036'>More sharing options...
gmo Posted June 7, 2017 Share #9877 Â Posted June 7, 2017 Alfetta GTV 6 Â Gerd Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkP Posted June 7, 2017 Share #9878  Posted June 7, 2017 (edited) Yep. Too easy :-)  Don't see many left on the road nowadays.  Nice car in it's day, especially earlier models from the 70s, but never really liked that gearbox with the long linkages .  Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Edited June 7, 2017 by MarkP Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=3291102'>More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted June 7, 2017 Share #9879 Â Posted June 7, 2017 The problem with all Italian cars of that period was the noise. The horrible sound of the tin worms eating your car as it was sitting in the drive. I had two Italian cars during the 70's, an Alfetta 1.8 and a Fiat X1/9. They both had holes rusted all the way through within a year from new. The X 1/9 was so bad I got Fiat to agree to buy it back, under threat of going to the motoring press and newspapers. I then bought an ex-demo Saab 99 Turbo, which someone said you could use as a taxi in a salt mine. I did nearly 90,000 miles over the next five years and the sole replacement parts other than regular service, were an exhaust and a water pump seal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted June 8, 2017 Share #9880  Posted June 8, 2017 The horrible sound of the tin worms eating your car as it was sitting in the drive.   Wilson,  very funny, but "tin worms" are fake news! The metal used in such cars was AUTOPHAGY which is the 1970s Italian word for automobile ;-)  p.s. I remember a friend asking me if I could assist replacing the rear shocks of his old GTV, I kept 2 mtr distance in the dangerous moments. Never trusted the soso looking cars corrosion condition. As if the GTV wasn´t enough, his second car was an X 1/9. I never took the chance to borrow that one, not even for a quick ride around the workshop. The FIAT Uno of my ex-GF was warning enough.  Running out of new interesting car riddle photos it is fun to watch you guys posting here. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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