Another mystery car...
Discussion
brrapp said:
forsure said:
glenrobbo said:
DavidY said:
Jensen CV8 ??
My initial thought, but the rear end seems different... 
Magnette ZA I think, though the very rear of the rear wing looks wrong.
How come glassfibre's bent and folded rather than torn and splintered?
Where's all the front wing gone from between arch and A-pillar?
Where's the wheelarch eyebrow gone from the front wing?
Where's the wheelarch eyebrow/indicator bulge gone from along the length of the rear wing?
TooMany2cvs said:
brrapp said:
forsure said:
glenrobbo said:
DavidY said:
Jensen CV8 ??
My initial thought, but the rear end seems different... Magnette ZA I think, though the very rear of the rear wing looks wrong.
How come glassfibre's bent and folded rather than torn and splintered?
Where's all the front wing gone from between arch and A-pillar?
Where's the wheelarch eyebrow gone from the front wing?
Where's the wheelarch eyebrow/indicator bulge gone from along the length of the rear wing?
It doesn't look like it was dropped there from a great height (not a big enough dint in the grass) so it has been moved to that spot without a few of the bits that fell off. Fibre glass does bend as well as tear/splinter, and there does seem to be something like that showing in a few places.
I'm not sure I'm right, but you haven't convinced me that you are yet.
brrapp said:
You could have added 'where have the doors gone' and 'where is all the broken glass' and 'where have the seats gone'.
It doesn't look like it was dropped there from a great height (not a big enough dint in the grass) so it has been moved to that spot without a few of the bits that fell off.
Sure that's probably what happened - and, tbh, it was probably dropped onto a more solid surface than grass. It may well not even have finished up right way up.It doesn't look like it was dropped there from a great height (not a big enough dint in the grass) so it has been moved to that spot without a few of the bits that fell off.
But there's massive differences in what we can definitely see. Most marked of those are the arch eyebrows. It might or might not be a Magnette - the rear wing's the major "not" point. But it'd most definitely not a CV8. There's not even much of a passing resemblance.
Over on Autopuzzles another photo has been posted, which gives more clues. It is described in a period caption as a Wolseley, and I immediately thought of the 4/44 but the number plate indentation on the rear bumper had me confused.
It is of course, as originally claimed, a Magnette. My humble opinion was worthless........
It is of course, as originally claimed, a Magnette. My humble opinion was worthless........
I've really enjoyed this thread but not been able to add much to the task of identification.
However I am puzzled by the look of "conquest" of the men posing on the wreck. It's the sort of look that big game hunters had when posing in front of their kill. Suggests that it must have been a successful controlled experiment of some description.
However I am puzzled by the look of "conquest" of the men posing on the wreck. It's the sort of look that big game hunters had when posing in front of their kill. Suggests that it must have been a successful controlled experiment of some description.
nicanary said:
Over on Autopuzzles another photo has been posted, which gives more clues. It is described in a period caption as a Wolseley, and I immediately thought of the 4/44 but the number plate indentation on the rear bumper had me confused.
It is of course, as originally claimed, a Magnette. My humble opinion was worthless........
Result It is of course, as originally claimed, a Magnette. My humble opinion was worthless........
Riley Blue said:
It was dropped from a helicopter flying at 300 feet - I don't know if that counts.
I've got a sequence photo of a RAF Chinook doing the same thing with a Triumph 2000 Mk1 at the airshow at RAF Abingdon in 1981.Need to did the slides out from a box somewhere and try and scan them.
TooMany2cvs said:
sun.and.rain said:
Mid 50s Riley Pathfinder / Wolseley type 50s thing from the 1950s. Not a Wolseley 4/44 as I thought before but the bigger one.
I think we've got a winner. The rear wing shape's much more like.
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