Can you identify this old car?

[Jimibob]

Hi everyone!

I'm not a motorhead but I seen someone else using your car knowledge to identify
an old car, I'm colorizing an old picture and getting the car the right color would be
fantastic!

It's the car on the bottom right



Much appreciated

[mon the fish]

Can't help with the car, but is that Banchory?

[RickRob]

The "Thumbsnap" logo is obscuring a good percentage of the bits that would help identify it. Can you post the picture upside down so that the car can be better seen. (It will drive people with iPads mad as they'll never see the pic the right way up!

Alternatively, wait until it drives by again and get a picture with the car in the middle!

[Herr Schnell]

RickRob said:

The "Thumbsnap" logo is obscuring a good percentage of the bits that would help identify it. Can you post the picture upside down so that the car can be better seen. (It will drive people with iPads mad as they'll never see the pic the right way up!

Alternatively, wait until it drives by again and get a picture with the car in the middle!

Click on the image to make the logo go away.

[nicanary]

Looks very much like a late-20s AC Aceca, although I couldn't be 100% about this.

PS Indeed on reflection I rushed into this. Could it be some sort of Riley Nine, maybe a soft-top Wentworth?

Edited by nicanary on Thursday 25th January 10:31

[StonetheCrows]

Rover 8 Tourer ?

[friederich]

Maybe a Star 11.9. Rad and disc wheels look right, but I'm puzzled by the headlamps that look to be mounted on the wings.

[TooMany2cvs]

The headlamps are quite Trojan, as are the disc wheels. The rest of it a bit too civilised-looking, perhaps?

[LarJammer]

Damn! 2 mins too late. I was also going to say Trojan, the solid wheels and headlamp position is typical of their cars.

[threespires]

Trojan gets my vote too.

[friederich]

Definitely not a Trojan. The rad is wrong and the general proportions are wrong.

[J8 SVG]

Might make it easier for anyone not on PC

[davepen]

I guess in answer to the question, what colour? Anyone you want, although it might appear the wheels are two different colours.
There was a theory that RED appears very black in B&W photo's of the day.

My random guess, "Belsize Bradshaw", but there were many, many, light car makes before the A7 and later the Morris Minor dominated the market.
As said above, tongue in cheek, - a better view of the radiator would have helped.

[downthepub]

mon the fish said:

Can't help with the car, but is that Banchory?

Certainly looks like it.

[gifdy]

Bit of CSI type cleaning up then you could probably make out the registration

[friederich]

gifdy said:

Bit of CSI type cleaning up then you could probably make out the registration

Looks like RS 60xx.

RS was issued in Aberdeen, so fits with the location in Banchory.

[TooMany2cvs]

friederich said:

Looks like RS 60xx.

RS was issued in Aberdeen, so fits with the location in Banchory.

I think the third digit's a 2.

Not one of the 11 possibilities shows up on Vehicle Enquiry. No great surprise - the odds on it surviving until the 70s and the establishment of DVLA are miniscule.

[Dogwatch]

davepen said:

I guess in answer to the question, what colour? Anyone you want, although it might appear the wheels are two different colours.
There was a theory that RED appears very black in B&W photo's of the day.

My random guess, "Belsize Bradshaw", but there were many, many, light car makes before the A7 and later the Morris Minor dominated the market..

Surely you mean the Morris 8?

Back on topic, it looks as though the rear wheel is solid disc and the front is spoked. Car was probably several years old by then anyway so not a surprise.

[StonetheCrows]

Dogwatch said:

Surely you mean the Morris 8?

Back on topic, it looks as though the rear wheel is solid disc and the front is spoked. Car was probably several years old by then anyway so not a surprise.

Rover 8 like this one ?

http://www.classicandsportscar.com/classifieds/cla...

[eccles]

Dogwatch said:

davepen said:

I guess in answer to the question, what colour? Anyone you want, although it might appear the wheels are two different colours.
There was a theory that RED appears very black in B&W photo's of the day.

My random guess, "Belsize Bradshaw", but there were many, many, light car makes before the A7 and later the Morris Minor dominated the market..

Surely you mean the Morris 8?

Back on topic, it looks as though the rear wheel is solid disc and the front is spoked. Car was probably several years old by then anyway so not a surprise.

The Morris Minor came before the Morris 8 (1929-34) and was like a civilised Austin 7. It was Britain's first £100 car.