a.j.z Posted February 27, 2018 Share #10781  Posted February 27, 2018 Advertisement (gone after registration) How about this 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=3470487'>More sharing options...
stuny Posted February 28, 2018 Share #10782 Â Posted February 28, 2018 The fuel filler and windscreen suggest it's a competition version of a roadster, and if the historic numbers plate is indicative, from 1950 or a bit earlier. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkCambridgeshire Posted February 28, 2018 Share #10783  Posted February 28, 2018 (edited) Allard K3 Roadster c.1952/53  dunk Edited February 28, 2018 by dkCambridgeshire Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
a.j.z Posted February 28, 2018 Share #10784 Â Posted February 28, 2018 The fuel filler and windscreen suggest it's a competition version of a roadster, and if the historic numbers plate is indicative, from 1950 or a bit earlier. Â Yes, also 1950 is correct. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
a.j.z Posted February 28, 2018 Share #10785  Posted February 28, 2018 Allard K3 Roadster c.1952/53  dunk  No Allard.  I will post the front in the evening if there are no further guesses by then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
a.j.z Posted February 28, 2018 Share #10786  Posted February 28, 2018 (edited) Here is the front 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 February 28, 2018 by a.j.z 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=3471107'>More sharing options...
willeica Posted March 1, 2018 Share #10787 Â Posted March 1, 2018 Advertisement (gone after registration) Could Donald Healey have been involved? He produced a car called the Nash Healey. Could this be a racing prototype? Â William Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted March 1, 2018 Share #10788  Posted March 1, 2018 Rather crude, making me think of some of the successful racers built mostly in Southern California between 1947 and 1955. The New Jersey numbers plate suggests it was road legal in those simpler times, and it appears to have a New Jersey vehicle inspection sticker on the windscreen, where those stickers continue to be displayed to this day. The badge seems to have coopted Bentley's or Aston Martin's wings to help an MG octagon fly. You seem to have shot this at a car show, with an AH sitting behind it. But I could not begin to guess any further. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
a.j.z Posted March 1, 2018 Share #10789 Â Posted March 1, 2018 (edited) I think Stuart is as close as you can get. It is an MG TD based racecar with Jaguar engine. It is called GMG Jaguar Aerodynamica. There are only two of them. Â https://bringatrailer.com/2016/05/27/mg-td-based-racer-1950-gmg-jaguar-special/ Â Thus, over to you, Stuart! Edited March 1, 2018 by a.j.z 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted March 1, 2018 Share #10790  Posted March 1, 2018 From what I have read about this car, its provenance may have been somewhat embellished. Nothing has been found to date in the SCCA archives nor any period photos of it racing. These old race cars can gather imaginary history as they go along and it is very difficult to disprove it.  I have been caught a couple of times when research just did not bear out the purported history of a car, that it was sold with. I bought a car called a Chapman-Buick. It was supposed to have been built in the early 1950's by a race engineer called Phil Chapman (no relation to CABC), to race at Spa, Le Mans, etc long distance GT/sports races, originally with a Cunningham Cadillac engine. By the time I bought it, it had a race 375 cu.in Buick V8 with Offenhauser manifolds and 2 x 4 barrel Holleys plus a damaged Cunningham Cadillac engine. A lot of the bits in it were J2R Allard, including the gearbox, De Dion rear axle with inboard Alfin drum brakes, front suspension and steering. It had a tubular steel space frame (nicely made) and a pretty but somewhat delaminated fibreglass body, looking rather like a long tail Maserati 450S. After a lot of research, I was unable to trace any verifiable competition history at all, other than participation in some British hill climbs. Given how well it had originally been built other than the laying up of the fibreglass body, I felt it must have had more race history but I just could not find it. It had obviously never been a road car as it had no speedometer or hand brake. The only saving grace was that I was able to sell the complete but damaged (bent valves) Cunningham Cadillac engine for more than I had paid for the whole car.  Wilson 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted March 2, 2018 Share #10791  Posted March 2, 2018 Andreas -  Thank you. The octagon and year should have suggested TD underpinnings to me. Let's try this one - Even though it's not difficult, I'm posting this crop because I really like the looks of the 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=3472255'>More sharing options...
willeica Posted March 2, 2018 Share #10792 Â Posted March 2, 2018 Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale. Â William Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted March 2, 2018 Share #10793  Posted March 2, 2018 Well done. Your turn, but before releasing this post, here are more photos of it and the women representing Alfa at NY International Auto Shows: 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=3472302'>More sharing options...
stuny Posted March 2, 2018 Share #10794  Posted March 2, 2018 And.... 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=3472305'>More sharing options...
willeica Posted March 2, 2018 Share #10795  Posted March 2, 2018  A much slower car this time.  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!  William   Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!  William   ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=3472308'>More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted March 2, 2018 Share #10796 Â Posted March 2, 2018 Darracq Type L? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
willeica Posted March 2, 2018 Share #10797 Â Posted March 2, 2018 No, not a Darracq, but it is French. Â William Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted March 2, 2018 Share #10798  Posted March 2, 2018 What then about a 1902 Panhard et Levassor 7HP 2 cyl. The lamps are very similar to those on our 1904 15HP P&L 4 cylinder. For the 15HP car, so advanced in many ways, it was quite a retrograde step to have oil lamps rather than acetylene. Those, especially the Blériot 12" lamps, with a central gas generator, are quite bright. The amount of light the oil lamps produce is about the same as you would get from tickling a firebug.  Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
willeica Posted March 2, 2018 Share #10799  Posted March 2, 2018 Correct, Wilson. Here it is with a Panhard armoured car behind.  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!  over to you.  William   Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!  over to you.  William   ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=3472664'>More sharing options...
stuny Posted March 6, 2018 Share #10800 Â Posted March 6, 2018 Wilson? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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