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RE: Amelia Island Concours D'elegance - JonE - 08-03-2020
I'm pretty sure the Taylor is in fact a Rexine... although it's difficult finding corroborating evidence.
Remember the Doctor's coupe with the wickerwork effect? Has anyone got anything on that, out of interest.
RE: Amelia Island Concours D'elegance - Ian Williams - 08-03-2020
Yes I agree Jon, pictures I have studied appear to be some sort of Rexine, still must have been a pretty unusual and striking looking car when new.
RE: Amelia Island Concours D'elegance - Mike Costigan - 08-03-2020
The top panels are certainly fabric, but I am pretty sure the side panels are alloy; if you look at the pattern there is a degree of inconsistency which suggests hand polishing rather than a machine-made fabric:
1928 Taylor Semi-Sports crop.jpg (Size: 112.88 KB / Downloads: 264)
RE: Amelia Island Concours D'elegance - Tony Griffiths - 08-03-2020
Taylor 1928 adverts - one talks of a "duo colour fabric to choice". If the finish was engine-turned aluminium, it would have looked spectacular, though possibly a little too bright for conservative tastes. Was this the 1920s equivalent of today's "wrapping" process?
RE: Amelia Island Concours D'elegance - jpsmit - 09-03-2020
(08-03-2020, 09:39 AM)JonE Wrote: I've got a lot of information on this car if anyone was considering it. I'd like to know what it got to, as it had no reserve?
https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/am20/amelia-island/lots/r0147-1931-austin-seven-roadster-by-h-taylor/853052
btw, has anyone seen the "serial number" with those suffix letters listed... on a cylinder head before. I can't think it came from anywhere else.
If you click the link again, the price is listed: $25,200 inclusive of fees. (19,254 pounds)
RE: Amelia Island Concours D'elegance - Tony Griffiths - 09-03-2020
(08-03-2020, 09:39 AM)JonE Wrote: I've got a lot of information on this car if anyone was considering it. I'd like to know what it got to, as it had no reserve?Do please tell us more; e.g. it's a coupled-brakes chassis yet uses the "inside-the-car" scuttle fuel tank and, of course, the earlier radiator as well.
https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/am20/amelia-island/lots/r0147-1931-austin-seven-roadster-by-h-taylor/853052
btw, has anyone seen the "serial number" with those suffix letters listed... on a cylinder head before. I can't think it came from anywhere else.
RE: Amelia Island Concours D'elegance - Tony Press - 09-03-2020
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This later Taylor has a long bonnet - but it has a different tail and a flat windscreen.
The earlier advertising picture seem to show a patterned fabric not engine turned aluminium, which I thought would have been mentioned in the notes being so time intensive.
The two ID plates shown on the US car are reproductions- if the stamped chassis number 131817 is correct it may be a 1931 car but the car number 1A38SZ seems odd, from earlier discussions shouldn't it be CHA1****
The Taylor badge looks right, although the flat bottomed cowl has been painted.
RE: Amelia Island Concours D'elegance - Mike Costigan - 09-03-2020
(09-03-2020, 04:47 AM)Tony Press Wrote: This later Taylor has a long bonnet - but it has a different tail and a flat windscreen.
I suspect the auction car originally had this style body - the truncated tail doesn't look original to me.
RE: Amelia Island Concours D'elegance - Ruairidh Dunford - 09-03-2020
Is this the same car in 1965?
RE: Amelia Island Concours D'elegance - JonE - 09-03-2020
yes! Featured in Rooster Tales etc. Sadly, the owner who had it prior to the snub tail (from that old thread, R) hasn't replied...