Any idea what this is?
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Found it on google streetview any idea what this is?
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.6847046,-2.10952...
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.6847046,-2.10952...
I reckon that is definitely a Healey, either a 100 M or S maybe or possibly a 3000. I think it has just had the front reshaped, maybe after an accident. It also has a bit of patina about it and proper old style curly hub wheels but.............do those doors hinge at the bottom..............?
Edited by Mike-tf3n0 on Tuesday 3rd April 23:18
Move towards the back of the car a bit, and zoom in - the tail's just not quite there for a big Healey, nor's the scuttle. If only those idiots would move and stop blocking the front view...
Period one-off of some kind, I'd reckon.
Vents in the bonnet on one side look to be for exhaust heat escape.
Period one-off of some kind, I'd reckon.
Vents in the bonnet on one side look to be for exhaust heat escape.
Edited by TooMany2cvs on Wednesday 4th April 09:06
gothatway said:
Definitely not a Healey, though the lines of the wings have a resemblance to the 100 (or 3000), while the headlights look a little like a Frogeye's. Sills, lower wings, boot lid, doors, dashboard all totally wrong.
Agreed. The sills are far too high for either Healey and the bulkhead and door openings are also totally different. It may have elements of Big Healey/Frogeye but then so did many late 50s/early 60s low-volume designs.CanAm said:
And if only those people at Google didn't block out number plates! 
There's a bit of 086/O86/D86 visible on the front. Back plate looks very short, but there's obviously more of the plate hidden... We're not that lucky! (D86 is a white Aston DBS, O86 is a silver Porsche 993)I agree that while the whole thing is "Healey-esque" there is so much that doesn't fit with any production Frogeye or 3000/100.
Bootlid - Frogeyes didn't have one, 3000s were "full size" and didn't start half way down the trailing edge.
Doors - Both Frogeyes and 3000s had much deeper and wider doors.
Bonnet - This thing seems to have a bonnet that extends halfway down the front wings. Frogeyes had a curving lower edge on the front wings. 3000s bonnets didn't extend into the front wings.
Headlights - Too low, central and "podded" to be a 3000. Too low and far apart to be a Frogeye.
General proportions - Distance between front wheels and scuttle too long for a Frogeye. About right for a 3000.
There's also too many differences to suggest to me that it is Triumph TR2 based either.
The images that Toomany2cvs has grabbed are interesting as the front views with the extreme cutaway at the lower corner in front of the nearside wheel reminded me of a Briggs Cunningham but I coudn't find any examples that looked like this. Also, as the Briggs Cunningham was American it was unlikely to be RHD (which might rule out DB/Panhard as well).
Does anyone know what the "sort of star shaped" logo on the front wing behind the bonnet strap is? It looks sort of familiar to me in that I'm sure I've seen it somewhere before but can't place it. I've googled logos of all sorts of makers who might have been making cars at the time but didn't have any luck (Alvis, Berkeley, Elva, ERA, Fairthorpe, Frazer Nash, HRG, Lea Francis, Peerless, Rochdale, Swallow Doretti, Tornado). If anyone can recognise the logo this might give us a clue.
I agree with nicanary that it might be Jaguar related. If it is an attempt at a copy of a C-Type it misses the mark by a long way, but the shallow doors and the apparent length of the bonnet could fit a one-off sports racer built on a C-Type or XK140 chassis.
Bootlid - Frogeyes didn't have one, 3000s were "full size" and didn't start half way down the trailing edge.
Doors - Both Frogeyes and 3000s had much deeper and wider doors.
Bonnet - This thing seems to have a bonnet that extends halfway down the front wings. Frogeyes had a curving lower edge on the front wings. 3000s bonnets didn't extend into the front wings.
Headlights - Too low, central and "podded" to be a 3000. Too low and far apart to be a Frogeye.
General proportions - Distance between front wheels and scuttle too long for a Frogeye. About right for a 3000.
There's also too many differences to suggest to me that it is Triumph TR2 based either.
The images that Toomany2cvs has grabbed are interesting as the front views with the extreme cutaway at the lower corner in front of the nearside wheel reminded me of a Briggs Cunningham but I coudn't find any examples that looked like this. Also, as the Briggs Cunningham was American it was unlikely to be RHD (which might rule out DB/Panhard as well).
Does anyone know what the "sort of star shaped" logo on the front wing behind the bonnet strap is? It looks sort of familiar to me in that I'm sure I've seen it somewhere before but can't place it. I've googled logos of all sorts of makers who might have been making cars at the time but didn't have any luck (Alvis, Berkeley, Elva, ERA, Fairthorpe, Frazer Nash, HRG, Lea Francis, Peerless, Rochdale, Swallow Doretti, Tornado). If anyone can recognise the logo this might give us a clue.
I agree with nicanary that it might be Jaguar related. If it is an attempt at a copy of a C-Type it misses the mark by a long way, but the shallow doors and the apparent length of the bonnet could fit a one-off sports racer built on a C-Type or XK140 chassis.
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