Another mystery car
Discussion
TooMany2cvs said:
Didn't we already decide it definitely was a Super Minx back screen?
Yes, I think so. I may have missed it but I hadn't actually before looked at the car it came from and assumed it was just a "that'll do" decision. It was only on looking a bit more that I saw the other similarities and threw some google time at it.I suppose I was hoping I'd spot or find something that had been overlooked previously or some obscure old website or auction listing or...
Variants on searching humber special/custom/auction/gullwing/doors/coachbuilt etc.
I know it has already been discussed but saw more about the Sabra here - http://boitierrouge.com/2015/11/09/autocars-de-la-...
TooMany2cvs said:
dandarez said:
Somewhere in Tamworth!
<grin> I doubt that was moulded specially... Must've been borrowed from a parts bin somewhere.Like you, I've no idea but a 'vehicle' parts bin, I'm doubting. What the hell it is or was from, who knows?
Because the 'round' rear screen was very quickly abandoned for a conventional rear screen I'm suspecting it must have been something scarce - because, as everyone so far has stated, it really looks cool.
Then again it was 1961 so maybe not so then?
Someone must know.
This could get as bad as the mystery car itself!
Just for interest, few years later in 67 the Sabra (in Israel factory) with 'more' conventional rear screens.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-_G...
dandarez said:
jet_noise said:
That's a Trabi (Trabant) 601 surely! Nothing to do with Sabra.I was struck by the similarity of the front of the Trabi and the Sabra(s), wished to share and pointed it out in what I thought was a mildly humorous manner.
I'll telegraph better next time
dandarez said:
The same car in same surroundings (and same lady) . Rear screen not so noticeable.
Here's a shot of the production rear screen on the car that I used to own, toughened glass made by Triplex. I suspect that the one shown in the Sabra brochure may have been perspex as quite often happened with low volume sports cars/prototypes. I am sure that someone will correct me if I am wrong.jet_noise said:
dandarez said:
jet_noise said:
That's a Trabi (Trabant) 601 surely! Nothing to do with Sabra.I was struck by the similarity of the front of the Trabi and the Sabra(s), wished to share and pointed it out in what I thought was a mildly humorous manner.
I'll telegraph better next time
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