Blown Ulster

[ettore]

...for auction:

https://auctions.hampsonauctions.com/auc...6&pn=1&g=1

Clearly several details not right but an interesting car if real. Does anyone know it?

[Mike Costigan]

All I can say is buyer beware!

[Albert S]

Sidestepping the auction house chutzpah what specifically constitutes “highly original” . Partaking in the Silverstone Anniversary Parade doesn’t count I’m afraid.

[Jeff Taylor]

The Northumberland registration JR 4525 dates to 1936 not 1931. The original registration cards from this time are allegedly still held by Northumberland County Archives. It's also shown as an 'Old Entry' on the A7CA Chassis Register as an Ulster Replica with a chassis number dating it to 1931.

[ettore]

This is the problem...

It's somewhat challenging to become a beware, or at least aware, buyer because it seems very difficult to access information about both the specific original detail and also the documented surviving cars/components. The A7OC chassis register is claiming this is a replica and it doesn't appear on the 'survivors' list that I have, albeit the latter is apparently about 40 years old.

Someone should write a book!

[Robert Leigh]

It's so 'original' that we don't get any under bonnet pictures.

[bystander]

'Highly unoriginal' would be a more appropriate description! Gosh, its awful in almost every respect.

Robert - what underbonnet pictures there are appear to show a late hc head atop a mag engine (and an SU carb?)


A fool and his money......comes to mind

[dickie65]

The seat belts scare me !!!

[`Gordonhbm]

I don't know where the anchor points for the seatbelts are.  Could they be mounted to the chassis?  If that was the case then the real worry is that your shoulder will be above the slot at the top of the seat.  So in any accident the resultant forces produce high compressive loads on the spine which is most undesirable.  It is wrong to call  them seat belts if they have not been load tested to the required spec.  You would have to call them restrainers.

[Steve kay]

Do certain auction houses share access to an AI machine with nearby estate agents?