Michael Geschlecht Posted August 11, 2021 Share #15861 Posted August 11, 2021 Advertisement (gone after registration) Hello John, Could this be a British car? Best Regards, Michael Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted August 11, 2021 Posted August 11, 2021 Hi Michael Geschlecht, Take a look here Name this car..... I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
John Z. Goriup Posted August 11, 2021 Share #15862 Posted August 11, 2021 Yes, Michael, completely British. JZG Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham (G4FUJ) Posted August 11, 2021 Share #15863 Posted August 11, 2021 Looks familiar. Racking my brains trying to remember where/what though... Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Z. Goriup Posted August 11, 2021 Share #15864 Posted August 11, 2021 Maybe a crop from another angle will help. JZG 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! Quote 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=4255111'>More sharing options...
Jim J Posted August 11, 2021 Share #15865 Posted August 11, 2021 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud drophead with coachwork by Freestone & Webb? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Z. Goriup Posted August 11, 2021 Share #15866 Posted August 11, 2021 Correct, Jim J........ built for the 1957 Earls Court show. Surprised it didn't take longer to guess this one, since only three were ever made, one of them a Bentley. Your turn, thanks for playing. JZG 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 Quote 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=4255140'>More sharing options...
John Z. Goriup Posted August 11, 2021 Share #15867 Posted August 11, 2021 Advertisement (gone after registration) ...........and another one, from the rear. I must say,I find it singularly unattractive, but it was 1958 - at the height of the big fin and chrome era. JZG 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! Quote 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=4255142'>More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted August 11, 2021 Share #15868 Posted August 11, 2021 It is the sort of car one could see Diana Dors in. Daimler also made some monstrosities for Lady Docker, the ex-show girl who had married Lord Docker, the majority owner of Daimler. It was during this era that the UK royal family switched their allegiances from Daimler to Rolls Royce. Wilson Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelG Posted August 11, 2021 Share #15869 Posted August 11, 2021 Freestone & Webb also built a LWB RR with a strange elongated rear cabin with a radiused back window (that would look at home on a Greyhound Scenicruiser) with extra seats that came out of the floor. I’ll try to find a picture Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
masjah Posted August 11, 2021 Share #15870 Posted August 11, 2021 8 hours ago, John Z. Goriup said: ...........and another one, from the rear. I must say,I find it singularly unattractive, but it was 1958 - at the height of the big fin and chrome era. JZG 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! Not being a car enthusiast, I had no idea that such a quality marque could be associated with styling much more typical of the old Vauxhall Victor and other similar rust-buckets. I do hugely enjoy this thread. This vehicle really is quite hideously fascinating! As Wilson suggests, I can well imagine Diana Dors (Diana Fluck originally as was) in it. If I may digress, and lower the tone, the story goes that in the early days of her career, Diana Fluck had been hired to open a village fête. It fell upon the absent minded parish vicar to introduce the celebrity, and his wife had warned him "For heaven's sake make sure you get her name right". Result: "It gives me great pleasure to invite Miss Diana Clunt to open our fête". 1 1 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelG Posted August 12, 2021 Share #15871 Posted August 12, 2021 (edited) She infact was given/bought (but not clear she ever actually drove) a Saoutchik- bodied 1949 Delahaye Type 175 S Roadster...she was 17 and didn’t get her licence till she was 20. Sold by RM Sotheby’s for $3.3m in 2010.... https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/mo10/sports---classics-of-monterey/lots/r124-1949-delahaye-type-175-s-roadster/194287# Edited August 12, 2021 by NigelG Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hektor Posted August 12, 2021 Share #15872 Posted August 12, 2021 As one might have expected, Princess Margaret Rose requested the car be delivered to Kensington Palace for her appraisal. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim J Posted August 12, 2021 Share #15873 Posted August 12, 2021 Here we have a night time shot of a rather more prosaic vehicle. But what is it? There were a couple of cars that looked like this and, badges aside, can only be distinguished from eachother from the front. I will accept either as a correct answer. 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! Quote 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=4255411'>More sharing options...
Jim J Posted August 12, 2021 Share #15874 Posted August 12, 2021 9 hours ago, NigelG said: This is the only picture I could find...I’m not sure how much it sold for. It’s certainly “distinctive”?! 😬 A very diplomatic way of putting it. Although it seems completely wrong to do this to a Rolls-Royce or Bentley, I can't help thinking that this sort of treatment would sit well on an Austin Sheerline....... Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hektor Posted August 12, 2021 Share #15875 Posted August 12, 2021 16 minutes ago, Jim J said: Here we have a night time shot of a rather more prosaic vehicle. But what is it? There were a couple of cars that looked like this and, badges aside, can only be distinguished from eachother from the front. I will accept either as a correct answer. Hello Jim, as a uniquely 1958-1964 Australian car, one of which, a series II, belonged to a friend's mother, I will keep a distance and give the others a go. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IkarusJohn Posted August 12, 2021 Share #15876 Posted August 12, 2021 (edited) Popular in NZ as well. I don’t have any pictures, so I will watch from the sidelines … Edited August 12, 2021 by IkarusJohn Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hektor Posted August 14, 2021 Share #15877 Posted August 14, 2021 Come on friends. Two days later and no one has picked it. Wilson is otherwise occupied so I will jump in. 1958-1962 Morris Major. Not enough detail to see whether a Series I or Series II and not a Morris Major Elite. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IkarusJohn Posted August 14, 2021 Share #15878 Posted August 14, 2021 I was thinking Ford Consul, Mk II, made from 1951-1962 … Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hektor Posted August 14, 2021 Share #15879 Posted August 14, 2021 Dear learned counsel, we will have to wait for Jim to arbitrate. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IkarusJohn Posted August 14, 2021 Share #15880 Posted August 14, 2021 1 hour ago, hektor said: Dear learned counsel, we will have to wait for Jim to arbitrate. The rear window is wrong for the Consul, I think (it had a wrap around window). There is something very familiar about this car, but maybe it’s just an amalgam of features from cars of the same era - the fins, the rubber around the rear window, the slope of the roof … I await the answer with interest. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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