Guess the car

[alpinemauve]

I am always impressed by the knowledge of PH-ers on this forum for identifying cars, so I thought I'd add a possible challenge to invite ideas on make and model of this:

Seen here being prepared for the NEC show last weekend (so no cheating if you saw it named there) a mystery car. The car is complete, it has no windscreen.

[RonnieH]

Has a hint of F40 about the front wing and door, maybe a this or frua bodied version??

[McClure]

A special edition De Tomaso Guara?

[dbdb]

Yes, it's the De Tomaso Guara Barchetta.

[alpinemauve]

Correct. Perhaps too easy?! How about this one?

[ndtman]

Healey 3000 based?

[john2443]

ndtman said:

Healey 3000 based?

Jamaican?

[jamesatcandsc]

alpinemauve said:

Correct. Perhaps too easy?! How about this one?

Conrero.

[nicanary]

jamesatcandsc said:

Conrero.

Based on the Le Mans TR "Sabrina" car.

[alpinemauve]

An earlier vintage. Any guesses?

[john2443]

alpinemauve said:

An earlier vintage. Any guesses?

No idea - do you have to crawl in to the back seat through that little door?

[williamp]

very unusula headlights, sio I'd guess a foreign job. Maybe a Hispano-Suiza?

[benjj]

john2443 said:

No idea - do you have to crawl in to the back seat through that little door?

That's where you shovel the coal

[nicanary]

I'm guessing American - that cubby hole is for golf clubs.

[nicanary]

nicanary said:

I'm guessing American - that cubby hole is for golf clubs.

It's not a Marmon or a Stutz - I'm veering towards Pierce-Arrow or Packard.

[nicanary]

nicanary said:

It's not a Marmon or a Stutz - I'm veering towards Pierce-Arrow or Packard.

Oh er ... That radiator screams Isotta -Fraschini 8A - maybe rebodied in the States, cos those bumpers (sorry fenders) are so 20s/30s USA, and the daft headlights just aren't European.

[chockymonster]

nicanary said:

It's not a Marmon or a Stutz - I'm veering towards Pierce-Arrow or Packard.

I'm thinking packard as well, looks similar to a packard 6

[LotusOmega375D]

Hupmobile perhaps?

[nicanary]

LotusOmega375D said:

Hupmobile perhaps?

Funny thing, I looked up some pics and then realised that Hudsons of that era had a similar radiator, just like the Hupmobile, and also the Chrysler.

So, basically, American manufacturers of the late 20s/early 30s weren't very imaginative with their radiator styling, at a time when that was how the public could most easily identify the individual makes. Will we be put out of our misery?

[McClure]

Doble?