Can anyone identify this car?
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Greetings everyone.
Whilst looking through some old family photos (on the wife's side) I came across this photo and was wondering whether anyone can identify the car?
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|http://thumbsnap.com/IsE5V3IK[/url]
The collective might of SELOC and one or two other motoring forums have failed to come up with a definitive answer. There is a small consensus that it may be a Nash or very early Reliant. Other suggestions include a special home made kit or some sort of post-war austerity re-bodied ford or Austin. DVLA hold no information on the car's registration number either.
The chap in the photo is a friend of the person named on the back and is believed to have been taken in the Notts/Lincs border area.
Slight enlargement here, but can't go much bigger due to pixilation.
What say ye all?
Whilst looking through some old family photos (on the wife's side) I came across this photo and was wondering whether anyone can identify the car?
url]
|http://thumbsnap.com/IsE5V3IK[/url]The collective might of SELOC and one or two other motoring forums have failed to come up with a definitive answer. There is a small consensus that it may be a Nash or very early Reliant. Other suggestions include a special home made kit or some sort of post-war austerity re-bodied ford or Austin. DVLA hold no information on the car's registration number either.
The chap in the photo is a friend of the person named on the back and is believed to have been taken in the Notts/Lincs border area.
Slight enlargement here, but can't go much bigger due to pixilation.
What say ye all?
Steffan said:
There are elements of the car that suggest very early Bond to me. The rear wings are very reminiscent of the early Bonds. Looks like a fibreglass tub to me. As a four wheeler unlikely to be a Reliant. Any more photos available engine shots etc?
Bond has been suggested and despite many googles, I've not been able to confirm. Searching the words 'Bond' and 'Car' at the same time is virtually impossible unless you're interested in James Bond!
Weren't Bond the forerunner to Reliant?
Sorry, no other pics at all.
Thanks for your input.
Edited by Jumpjet on Thursday 25th July 22:55
Try http://www.google.com/search?q=Bond+car+-James+-As...
Add some more minus criteria and it will find pages without those word
Add some more minus criteria and it will find pages without those word
The LAL reg. series is a Notts issue, introduced in November '49. My guess is that it's a homebuilt special, likely based on Ford 10 running gear. The body could well be made from either GRP or aluminium but doesn't look like any off-the-shelf "special" body I've ever seen, so a one-off I reckon.
RJ
RJ
Tend to agree with occrj - it's not a Bond or Reliant tho' I can understand folk suggesting that. I have similar pic's from my late father's photo collection of home builts "inspired" by more mainstream manufacturers. With practically all cars being chassis based and the advent of all the new materials/technology after the war it was relatively common for this sort of thing to be built - most were purely a rebody and the greasy bits would be dependable old Ford 10/Morris 8 or similar.
occrj said:
The LAL reg. series is a Notts issue, introduced in November '49. My guess is that it's a homebuilt special, likely based on Ford 10 running gear. The body could well be made from either GRP or aluminium but doesn't look like any off-the-shelf "special" body I've ever seen, so a one-off I reckon.
The "styling" appears to suggest an early "homemade" glassfibre effort.
LuS1fer said:
In the 50s they had very many "specials" which re-bodied the separate chassis that were common then.
I imagine it is something akin to that because it looks very basic.
What he says, wheels suggest some sort of Austin 7 based special,or similar, still 1000`s about in the fifty`s & a lot got used up on this kind of body/kitI imagine it is something akin to that because it looks very basic.
Many thanks to all who posted. I think there is some agreement that it is indeed some sort of DIY postwar special which, according to the wife, would fit the family profile. We particularly enjoyed the comment about the swimming pool as I'd already made a similar comment along the lines of a hardened pond liner
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