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[TurboTomato]

Actually, the official name is Daimler SP 250

they couldn't use "Dart" because Dodge already held the rights

Dam you pedants!!

[Pomeroy]

The little blue car is a Fairthorpe Electron Minor Is this your hat? ............. or this one?

Edited by Pomeroy, 16 November 2005 - 09:43 AM.

[waverunner]

This one?

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[TurboTomato]

The little blue car is a Fairthorpe Electron Minor


Is this your hat? ............. or this one?

That's another one that looks like a pedal car

[Pomeroy]

That's another one that looks like a pedal car

Well I guess lots of rare and obscure cars were rare and obscure when they were new too ... because they were simply NBG! Just as the Austin 7 destroyed a whole industry of awful cyclecars in the 1920s - horrors with wire-and- bobbin steering - the Frogeye Sprite was suddenly a better baby sports car for less money!

I was thinking of doing the dash of my N/A to look like this [obvious?] car ...

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Edited by Pomeroy, 16 November 2005 - 10:21 AM.

[lusovx]

This one?

That looks like a work from a italian coachbuilder... Contemporary to the Cisitalia... Pinifarina? Vignale?

[speedyK]

Is the red one a Healy Silverstone or something like that?

[speedyK]

The little blue car is a Fairthorpe Electron Minor


Is this your hat? ............. or this one?

You aa very good at this – you must have old "Observer's Book of Cars" from way back when like I have!

Ah – but you didn't say a year That one was 1957

[TurboTomato]

I was thinking of doing the dash of my N/A to look like this [obvious?] car ...

Looks like a Roller or a Bentley to me, probably a Rolls thinking about it. But if that's the badge down on the centre console then I have no idea

[waverunner]

This one?

That looks like a work from a italian coachbuilder... Contemporary to the Cisitalia... Pinifarina? Vignale?

Nope. British

If you've got exceptional eyesight you might just be able to read the name on the side. Otherwise there are some tell-tale signs, particularly with the back end design.

[lusovx]

This one?

That looks like a work from a italian coachbuilder... Contemporary to the Cisitalia... Pinifarina? Vignale?

Nope. British

If you've got exceptional eyesight you might just be able to read the name on the side. Otherwise there are some tell-tale signs, particularly with the back end design.

...the bonnet has shades of Healey about it?

[speedyK]

This one?

Nash-Healey

1951-54

[waverunner]

This one?

That looks like a work from a italian coachbuilder... Contemporary to the Cisitalia... Pinifarina? Vignale?

Nope. British

If you've got exceptional eyesight you might just be able to read the name on the side. Otherwise there are some tell-tale signs, particularly with the back end design.

...the bonnet has shades of Healey about it?

Very, very close

[waverunner]

This one?

That looks like a work from a italian coachbuilder... Contemporary to the Cisitalia... Pinifarina? Vignale?

Nope. British

If you've got exceptional eyesight you might just be able to read the name on the side. Otherwise there are some tell-tale signs, particularly with the back end design.

...the bonnet has shades of Healey about it?

Very, very close

Second thoughts - Close enough!

It's a 1951 Nash-Healey Roadster.

A friend of mine is rebuilding one at the moment. Well, actually he's been rebuilding it for at least five years to my knowledge. I wouldn't mind but he owns and runs a coachbuilding company!

[speedyK]

This one – anyone know it?

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[lusovx]

Double hurray for the first guessing this...

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[speedyK]

Intermeccanica

[lusovx]

Intermeccanica

...Italia. Hurray hurray!

[Pomeroy]

[ You aa very good at this – you must have old "Observer's Book of Cars" from way back when like I have!

Ah – but you didn't say a year That one was 1957

... no, but 40 odd years ago when I was a very young child in a very car-mad family, I would have had it then. Sad but true!

Sadder, my 50s and 60s Glass's Guides and Glass's list of UK registrations are in store otherwise I could tell you what month of the year that number plate was and in which city the Fairthorpe was first registered

And I won't spoil the BRG car for everyone else except to ask is it a normal one with a Triumph Herald engine or a specially good one with a Climax? Late one on a '64 plate


If it helps, my dashboard isn't beautiful burr walnut, it's painted metal! ... and if you park the car with one wheel up a kerb you probably won't be able to open the door, or maybe close it again! Class eh?

[lusovx]

This one – anyone know it?

It's a Turner?