Ernstk Posted June 7, 2016 Share #8681 Â Posted June 7, 2016 Advertisement (gone after registration) Apologies for hijacking this thread. We're having some difficulty over in Barnack's Bar trying to identify a car. I thought that the collective knowledge here could help us? Â Here is the thread we're discussing. Â http://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/261297-a-strange-beast/ Â Thanks Ernst Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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stuny Posted June 8, 2016 Share #8682 Â Posted June 8, 2016 In the other thread Wilson IDs some of the mechanicals and the seat belt, but the general consensus is this was a home-built one-off. Â Anybody want to post one, or should I wait a day and post one? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted June 9, 2016 Share #8683  Posted June 9, 2016 May I offer up another?   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!  Philip. 1 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!  Philip. ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=3058981'>More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted June 9, 2016 Share #8684  Posted June 9, 2016 Could that be a Clan Crusader? A special with Hillman Imp mechanicals.  Wilson 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manoleica Posted June 9, 2016 Share #8685 Â Posted June 9, 2016 A super fun car, especially with a tuned engine.. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted June 9, 2016 Share #8686  Posted June 9, 2016 (edited) Ah.... It's all to easy.  Whole slightly unfortunate-looking, but fairly exciting nevertheless package;  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 promise I DO have a few more testing ones so next time Expect No Mercy!  Well done Wilson (again!).  Philip.  EDIT : I must clean my sensor! Edited June 9, 2016 by pippy Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!  I promise I DO have a few more testing ones so next time Expect No Mercy!  Well done Wilson (again!).  Philip.  EDIT : I must clean my sensor! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=3059290'>More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted June 10, 2016 Share #8687  Posted June 10, 2016 Advertisement (gone after registration) Here is your next one. I saw this a couple of weeks ago. I had not seen one for years. It is the red car. Sadly my SL seems to have decided to focus on the one behind.  Wilson   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=3059423'>More sharing options...
maximilianm3 Posted June 10, 2016 Share #8688 Â Posted June 10, 2016 Bmw Glas? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted June 10, 2016 Share #8689  Posted June 10, 2016 Correct. I hoped everyone would think it was an early 911. Originally the Glas GT. After Glas were bought by BMW, basically to get the modern Dingolfing plant and patents like toothed belt cam drive, BMW re-engineered the car, replacing the Glas engine with their 1602 engine (Its full name is a BMW 1600GT Coupé) and the leaf sprung live rear axle, with the semi-trailing arm IRS, also from the 1602 saloon. However the very pretty bodies which were made (badly) by Frua in Italy, from from the usual poor quality Italian steel of the period (recycled peeled tomato cans), rusted like the Fiats and Alfas of the period. This must therefore be quite a rare survivor. I don't know if towards the end of the production, BMW moved the body dies back to Germany and started to make the bodies there.  We looked at buying one of the rare Glas GT's with the 2.6L V8 engines around three years ago but it had been very badly restored and in our view, the cost of undoing that work and re-restoring would have exceeded the value of the end result, so ended up buying a very nice rally tuned 1936 BMW 319 cabriolet instead.  Your turn  Wilson   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=3059542'>More sharing options...
stuny Posted June 13, 2016 Share #8690 Â Posted June 13, 2016 Â Maximilian - Â It's your turn to post a car for us to identify. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
maximilianm3 Posted June 14, 2016 Share #8691 Â Posted June 14, 2016 yes sorry, this afternoon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
maximilianm3 Posted June 15, 2016 Share #8692  Posted June 15, 2016 Sorry for the late reply....the best i could come up with...which car(s) does this engine belong to? 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=3062010'>More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted June 15, 2016 Share #8693  Posted June 15, 2016 BMW 501?  Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
maximilianm3 Posted June 16, 2016 Share #8694 Â Posted June 16, 2016 Yes, 501 and 502. Maybe it was too easy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted June 16, 2016 Share #8695  Posted June 16, 2016 Your next challenge although this may be too easy.  Wilson   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=3062405'>More sharing options...
Manoleica Posted June 16, 2016 Share #8696 Â Posted June 16, 2016 Morgan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted June 16, 2016 Share #8697 Â Posted June 16, 2016 Correct - type - approx year to within say 8 years? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manoleica Posted June 16, 2016 Share #8698 Â Posted June 16, 2016 I'll go with a little each side of the 70's -- I think the oil cooler is an addition.. Just love the Lucas Spotlight, I had the Lucas 700 series Spot & Driving Lights on all of my cars right up to my GT6.. Went over to Cibie thereafter... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkCambridgeshire Posted June 16, 2016 Share #8699 Â Posted June 16, 2016 I thought it was a Morgan but could not reconcile the non-standard? oil cooler. Â Â 1952 ish Morgan Plus 4Â Â dunk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted June 16, 2016 Share #8700  Posted June 16, 2016 You will have to fight it out between you. A 1952 +4 is absolutely spot on. From a peek under the carbs bulge on the bonnet, I think this one probably has a Chris Lawrence "Lawrencetune" conversion on the TR2 engine. These were often offered as standard. Chris' shack was next to the Morgan shacks in Malvern Link. The engine of this +4 may originally have been a Standard Vanguard engine as in 1952, the TR2 had only just come out.  Chris Lawrence was very helpful to me in the 1960's when I was developing the space framed, composite bodied "fraud" Morgan with the Martin F2 engine in it. This was more than you could say about Peter Morgan, who was totally unhelpful, even though we we giving excellent publicity for his company and lead the UK Modsports championship at one point. If he had helped us by lending us one of the special Salisbury "Le Mans "back axles which he had, we could have possibly won the Championship as we failed to finish a number of races through differential failures.  The body shape of Morgans stayed the same for a long time. I have a friend with a Climax engined 1938, which looks pretty much the same and the second picture is my brother-in-law's 1947 4/4 with a Standard Special engine (a side valve Standard 12 engine with a Laystall overhead valve conversion head). He has owned this car for nearly 50 years.  Wilson   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=3062812'>More sharing options...
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