Another mystery car
Discussion
Way back when this thread started there were pictures of a orange gull wing thing looking pretty down at heel. Someone scrapped the body but a couple of pictures were taken first.
No one knows anything about that one either. My point is that there were clearly at least 2 unusual cars knocking about that magazines of the time didn't capture details of and no one alive knows anything about, almost certainly a lot more.
Remember this one was in Classic and Sportscar and is probably the only car in the "mystery car" column to have not been recognized by the assembled anoraks around the world.
The pictures of the book earlier in this thread were taken by me. If you click on them, they are pretty big and a decent resolution.
No one knows anything about that one either. My point is that there were clearly at least 2 unusual cars knocking about that magazines of the time didn't capture details of and no one alive knows anything about, almost certainly a lot more.
Remember this one was in Classic and Sportscar and is probably the only car in the "mystery car" column to have not been recognized by the assembled anoraks around the world.
The pictures of the book earlier in this thread were taken by me. If you click on them, they are pretty big and a decent resolution.
Here's another approach to testing the Alpine hypothesis: I've taken another photo of an Alpine (from Wikimedia, a Series III this time) complete with driver, and pasted it into the original photo, scaled to the same wheelbase as the mystery car. Now, although the perspective isn't quite right, does this look like a Sunbeam Alpine, or more like a 9/10ths-scale Sunbeam Alpine?
Stigproducts said:
Way back when this thread started there were pictures of a orange gull wing thing looking pretty down at heel. Someone scrapped the body but a couple of pictures were taken first.
No one knows anything about that one either. My point is that there were clearly at least 2 unusual cars knocking about that magazines of the time didn't capture details of and no one alive knows anything about, almost certainly a lot more.
The Orange car looked very amateur and a bit of a mess (not just the condition it was in). The blue car looks far too good to have somehow slipped under the radar. No one knows anything about that one either. My point is that there were clearly at least 2 unusual cars knocking about that magazines of the time didn't capture details of and no one alive knows anything about, almost certainly a lot more.
silverfoxcc said:
Another thought re the 'mechanics' of the pic
Ifthe position of the camera is above 6ft and thereflection in the pax window id of the builsing behind, that the getthsat the pax window must be on a ineard slant
so we could add that design bit into the mix
Tony translate... (language detected: gibberish) Ifthe position of the camera is above 6ft and thereflection in the pax window id of the builsing behind, that the getthsat the pax window must be on a ineard slant
so we could add that design bit into the mix
If the position of the camera is above 6ft and the reflection in the back window is of the building behind,
so we could add that design bit into the mix
TonyRPH said:
Tony translate... (language detected: gibberish)
If the position of the camera is above 6ft and the reflection in the back window is of the building behind,thatthen?? the getthsat ????? the back window must be on a inward slant
so we could add that design bit into the mix
Close. I think by 'pax' he means passenger window.If the position of the camera is above 6ft and the reflection in the back window is of the building behind,
so we could add that design bit into the mix
threespires said:
Zirconium said:
Can I just say that, although I have nothing useful to say in relation to the identity of the car, I have (over several years) read the thread from the beginning and I am glad it exists. Not sure why I like it, but I do!
Excellent!
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