Another mystery car
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uk66fastback said:
No gullwing doors though ... more's the pity.
It was used in the filming of "On the Beach" in 1959 - the one which is based on nuclear fallout wrecking all the world and Australia being the last bastion. There are many motor racing sequences, filmed I think at Phillip Island.If anyone wants to check the film and see if the car had been temporarily converted to "gullwing" they're welcome to do it, but I think it's highly unlikely. Of course, the car could have been brought to London for film publicity purposes..........
All wishful thinking.
nicanary said:
If anyone wants to check the film and see if the car had been temporarily converted to "gullwing" they're welcome to do it, but I think it's highly unlikely. Of course, the car could have been brought to London for film publicity purposes..........
All wishful thinking.
Indeed. It'd have to be a lot more than just "gullwinged".All wishful thinking.
Gulp - sorry - it's an Elan.
I'd followed the Peter Pellandine thread (Ashley then Falcon) and tripped over this image labelled up as a Falcon ..
I will retire to the naught step for another few months then the itch will resurface.
Can see anything Ashley/Falcon/Reliant/Morgan with those doors - the windscreen wrapping around and the bottom rear edge of the door ….
The image does seem to be on a load of websites now ….
Here is another car that share some features with our mystery car while it obviously is not the same car:
A Aston Martin DB3/6 with a body by a Bob Dennis. The body was later further customized to include gullwing doors.
Perhaps Bob Dennis working further on his car styling skills before eventually producing our mystery car? While the unknown clearly have a more coherent styling, it does have many resembles to the Bod Dennis car around the windshield and the front door.
A Aston Martin DB3/6 with a body by a Bob Dennis. The body was later further customized to include gullwing doors.
Perhaps Bob Dennis working further on his car styling skills before eventually producing our mystery car? While the unknown clearly have a more coherent styling, it does have many resembles to the Bod Dennis car around the windshield and the front door.
uk66fastback said:
Does that thing survive? I guess not perhaps .... went through a few changes over the years by the looks of it ...
The chassis was latter rebodied back to this:While the body looked like this in 2003:
http://astonuts.free.fr/PAGES/DB3FHCE.html
threespires said:
Roll on March edition of C & SC to see if there is any answer from there...
I wouldn't make everyone wait for the mag if we get any info.Sadly, we have received absolutely nothing that sheds any light on the car so far.
Edited by jamesatcandsc on Monday 25th January 16:53
The last few times I've looked in this thread I've had a little flash of recognition towards this mystery car, as if I know what it is. But then I realised it's probably just because this has been going on so long and I've looked at it so many times that it's now sunk into a deeper part of my consciousness.
torquespeak said:
The photograph was definitely taken before April 1964, so it cannot possibly be an aftermarket fibreglass job done on a car that wasn't even around then...
Furthermore, I believe it was taken no earlier than 1960 either.
All examples of the bus model (RTW) running the number 15 route in this image were withdrawn from that route by April 1964.
All examples of the bus model (RTL) running route number 7 were withdrawn by July 1964, but given the date above is earlier, this fact is unimportant.
As someone said early on, there is a Ford 105E in the frame. This car was launched at the 1959 London Motor Show, which didn't take place until late October that year. I think we can safely assume that there wouldn't have been one swanning around Oxford Street until 1960 at the earliest.
As I said elsewhere in this thread, I'm sure that this particular Haig advert only ran on the buses from 1959-1961, so I would be pretty confident in placing this photo at some point between early 1960 and late 1961.
-Ed
Not sure if this has been stated as yet but in the photo posted from the book from which this picture appears - the description says 'buses in Oxford St 1962'
-- As an aside, while the RTW model bus on route 15 in this photo was withdrawn from that route before April 1964, for the next two years it remained in the UK on other routes/storage. In December 1966 it was purchased by the then Ceylon Transport Board, and shipped to Sri Lanka (then the Dominion of Ceylon) --
Furthermore, I believe it was taken no earlier than 1960 either.
All examples of the bus model (RTW) running the number 15 route in this image were withdrawn from that route by April 1964.
All examples of the bus model (RTL) running route number 7 were withdrawn by July 1964, but given the date above is earlier, this fact is unimportant.
As someone said early on, there is a Ford 105E in the frame. This car was launched at the 1959 London Motor Show, which didn't take place until late October that year. I think we can safely assume that there wouldn't have been one swanning around Oxford Street until 1960 at the earliest.
As I said elsewhere in this thread, I'm sure that this particular Haig advert only ran on the buses from 1959-1961, so I would be pretty confident in placing this photo at some point between early 1960 and late 1961.
-Ed
Not sure if this has been stated as yet but in the photo posted from the book from which this picture appears - the description says 'buses in Oxford St 1962'
-- As an aside, while the RTW model bus on route 15 in this photo was withdrawn from that route before April 1964, for the next two years it remained in the UK on other routes/storage. In December 1966 it was purchased by the then Ceylon Transport Board, and shipped to Sri Lanka (then the Dominion of Ceylon) --
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