Rona!d Posted October 28, 2013 Share #5721 Posted October 28, 2013 Advertisement (gone after registration) OK, this turned out to be more difficult than I thought. So here is the full car with stamped out model logos. Please name the model and year, thanks 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=2452043'>More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted October 28, 2013 Posted October 28, 2013 Hi Rona!d, Take a look here Name this car..... I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
stuny Posted October 28, 2013 Share #5722 Posted October 28, 2013 It looks like a Rocket 98, though it might be the slightly smaller 88 or Super 88 -- two cars that varied in trim level only. The 98 series for many years was the "beta" test platform for Cadillac features and engines. My father's 1960 accelerated exceptionally quickly for the time, and between the intake and exhaust sounded much like a huge surgical suction device. It's speedometer was very inexact, being a narrow diameter horizontal cylinder that as it rotated it would show a leading edge, angled indicator with the same color following full hight of the cylinder to its left. One never knew where on that leading edge it really indicated the actual speed. It also had a setting to sound an alarm if you exceeded the speed you preset into it. I usually remembered to turn that back down after borrowing my father's car. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted October 28, 2013 Share #5723 Posted October 28, 2013 Stu, you got it. Indeed an Oldsmobile 98 Classic Coupe, 425 Super Rocket Air. 1965 model (if I´m right). Thanks for the extra info about your dad´s car. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted October 28, 2013 Share #5724 Posted October 28, 2013 Thank you, Rona|d. Here's the new puzzle 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=2452179'>More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted October 28, 2013 Share #5725 Posted October 28, 2013 Stu, thought this is the sportier brother of what has arrived here yesterday from the Coys auction in Austria, but it seems it is not. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted October 28, 2013 Share #5726 Posted October 28, 2013 BMW 328? Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted October 28, 2013 Share #5727 Posted October 28, 2013 Advertisement (gone after registration) Not a Bimmer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted October 28, 2013 Share #5728 Posted October 28, 2013 Maybe an SS90 or 100 then? Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianLara Posted October 29, 2013 Share #5729 Posted October 29, 2013 Is that a muscle from Ford..? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted October 29, 2013 Share #5730 Posted October 29, 2013 Wilson - Right country, wrong marque Brian - No. 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=2452872'>More sharing options...
stuny Posted October 29, 2013 Share #5731 Posted October 29, 2013 Time for another view? 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=2453315'>More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted October 29, 2013 Share #5732 Posted October 29, 2013 I am going to guess a Speed 25 Alvis but not with its usual rather clumpy Charlesworth body. That is a rather elegant tail - more “Phoney and Flashy" or Saoutchik than one of the usual British coach builders. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted October 29, 2013 Share #5733 Posted October 29, 2013 I can see why you'd guess that, but no. I'll add some details about the car tomorrow, but perhaps we'll go with this: When Phil Hill road tested it he compared it favorably to the Bugatti type 50 and the Alfa of the same era. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted October 30, 2013 Share #5734 Posted October 30, 2013 I was going to think of an Atalanta Sports Tourer or maybe a Lagonda. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted October 30, 2013 Share #5735 Posted October 30, 2013 I was going to think of an Atalanta Sports Tourer or maybe a Lagonda. I too thought about a V12 Lagonda but they are usually flat floored and don’t have a transmission tunnel like this one. The excellent Lagonda gearbox, which uses constant mesh Citroen type chevron gears, is quite shallow but very wide. Same thing with 4¼ Bentleys - always a flat floor. My other thought but I feel it is too high quality a car was the big MG, the SA. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted October 30, 2013 Share #5736 Posted October 30, 2013 Rona|d & Wilson - I can see why you think so, but no. This is difficult. When you see the entire car you'll be as charmed as I was -- it is beautiful, and arguably the most beautiful of its type and era. The British company that built it didn't last very long (perhaps three years) and only built 7 cars. Three were sports cars with this body. This is the only one to survive. It's worth more than my first car ('58 MGA coupe). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted October 30, 2013 Share #5737 Posted October 30, 2013 Is is the HSM (High Speed Motors) version of the 8 cylinder Triumph Dolomite, designed by Donald Healey but really copied from an 8C Alfa Romeo? Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted October 30, 2013 Share #5738 Posted October 30, 2013 Another interesting, but not correct guess. Here's some more data about the car: The company's founder was working for MG when he inherited $130,000 which allowed him to start his own company. When the company failed he went to work for Bentley. He died in an air raid during WWII. The puzzle car has an Anzani 1.5 litre 4 cyl engine with DOHC, twin large SU carbs and a supercharger and finned inlets. It produced 130 HP. The car has a 102 inch wheelbase and huge four wheel alloy brake drums. It even has a pedal operated central lubrication system for the chassis. The transmission was a Wilson 4-speed preselector box. I was wrong about Phil Hill's road test of it. Phil thought it was competitive with a type 55 Bug and a 2.3 litre Alpha of the same period. I'm almost out of details and will next add more photo(s). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted October 30, 2013 Share #5739 Posted October 30, 2013 Ok Squire - I give up Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted October 30, 2013 Share #5740 Posted October 30, 2013 Ok Squire - I give up Wilson Wilson You are almost on the finish line with all the info Stu gave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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