hektor Posted March 27, 2022 Share #17221  Posted March 27, 2022 Advertisement (gone after registration) There should be enough detail on the firewall to identify this highly desirable "car": 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=4407786'>More sharing options...
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wlaidlaw Posted March 27, 2022 Share #17222  Posted March 27, 2022 (edited) Can't mistake that charging controller, it even has the logo on it. The wheels are also a good clue. I presume a hearse conversion. Wilson Edited March 27, 2022 by wlaidlaw Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hektor Posted March 27, 2022 Share #17223  Posted March 27, 2022 1 hour ago, wlaidlaw said: I presume a hearse conversion. Wilson Yes. Now to be returned to a car of some form. The problem I am told is the cost of doing so, however simple, would exceed the market value of the car. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted March 27, 2022 Share #17224  Posted March 27, 2022 The problem is that they struggle to keep up with modern traffic. A friend has an early one with the three speed box, rear brakes only, a body like a large ugly victorian hothouse and it is far from a great drive. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hektor Posted March 27, 2022 Share #17225  Posted March 27, 2022 Dear Wilson, close but it is not a 20 horsepower.  You may remember my 20 three speeder which having a lightweight body didn't spin its wheels at the traffic lights, but was otherwise adequate in modern traffic. 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! 2 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=4407938'>More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted March 28, 2022 Share #17226  Posted March 28, 2022 Hektor, I agree the weight of the body makes a huge difference. Our current minimalist lightweight alloy body London to Edinburgh Silver Ghost is so much nicer to drive than the previous Maharajah's Tiger Hunting Continental Ghost (complete with searchlights and gun racks), which had a huge and very luxuriously appointed Roi de Belges type cabriolet  body. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted March 29, 2022 Share #17227 Â Posted March 29, 2022 Advertisement (gone after registration) Wilson? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted March 29, 2022 Share #17228  Posted March 29, 2022 Nobody has said what the car is as yet Stuart. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hektor Posted March 29, 2022 Share #17229  Posted March 29, 2022 Good morning gentlemen. As the hearse has not been identified in twenty four hours, not even a suggestion, here is the 20/25.  IMHO Wilson came closest to identifying it. I think one would need to have the chassis number to distinguish between a late 20 and an early 20/25. If it were mine I would leave it in its barn-find condition and enjoy winding up the spit and polish brigade at the RREC.  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! 1 3 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=4409327'>More sharing options...
pippy Posted March 29, 2022 Share #17230 Â Posted March 29, 2022 With the greatest of respect, Hektor, is that altogether fair play? Perhaps a slightly more helpful crop posted subsequently might have attracted more suggestions from those who didn't immediately recognise - for instance - the exact type of 'charging-controller' in the only frame you posted? Seriously? Philip. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hektor Posted March 29, 2022 Share #17231  Posted March 29, 2022 Dear Pippy, had the crop been even slightly larger it would have included the carburettor, an instant give-away. I thought the handbrake told all. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted March 30, 2022 Share #17232  Posted March 30, 2022 I was scraping the bottom of the barrel with my last car, so open to anyone else who would like to post. BTW I think the charging box which I recognised was made by CAV, later part of Lucas. Rolls Royce claimed all the electrical components were made in house but many look suspiciously similar to items used in other top end cars of the period, e.g. Bentley, Daimler, Lagonda etc. Wilson  Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hektor Posted March 30, 2022 Share #17233  Posted March 30, 2022 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! 1 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=4409460'>More sharing options...
Viv Posted March 30, 2022 Share #17234  Posted March 30, 2022 15 minutes ago, hektor said: 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! Jaguar XJ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hektor Posted March 30, 2022 Share #17235  Posted March 30, 2022 Viv, you have to do better than that. What is the model and the recommended tyre pressures? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hektor Posted April 1, 2022 Share #17236 Â Posted April 1, 2022 As Viv came closest with no one identifying the car as a Jaguar XJ X300 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_XJ_(X300) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham (G4FUJ) Posted April 2, 2022 Share #17237  Posted April 2, 2022 A friend described his X300 as "an inverted Tardis". After sitting in it I could see his point! Quite fancied one a few years ago.  Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hektor Posted April 3, 2022 Share #17238  Posted April 3, 2022 Looks like I am running the show on my own, so here is the next one: 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=4411812'>More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted April 3, 2022 Share #17239  Posted April 3, 2022 I think I know what this is but I have nothing to post. Our next door neighbour to where I was brought up in the north of Scotland had one of these. He was a retired brigadier who had been the commanding officer of the Indian Army Veterinary Corps. I rarely saw him drive it when I was young and he stopped driving about 1955/56 due to eyesight problems, so it just sat unused in his garage for the next 10+ years until he died. I suspect it may have been scrapped at that point, as that was before the boom in classic cars, when you could pick up vintage Bentleys, Jaguars and even Ferraris for very modest sums, especially in the north of Scotland where service and spares were difficult for these less common cars. My father used to have to take his various Mercedes 220/220S and 220SEC down to Edinburgh some 200 miles away, for a major service. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted April 6, 2022 Share #17240  Posted April 6, 2022 We seem stuck. How about a hint or other crop BTW: It looks like I'll really like the full photo  Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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