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Maybe a crop from another angle will help.

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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.

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...........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.

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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. 

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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.

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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".

 

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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#

 

 

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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.

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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.......

 

 

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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.

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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.

 

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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.

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