18-11-2019, 07:42 PM
(This post was last modified: 18-11-2019, 07:44 PM by Mike Costigan.)
Thanks Tony, for dropping me in it! First of all you publish the picture without my knowledge, and then expect me to pick up the pieces 
Peter started us off by suggesting a Swallow, and later a Gordon England Stadium; half right with the coachbuilt idea, and crucially you identified a problem with the spare wheel mounting.
Sorry Ian, a Military model is a bit far adrift.
Terry and Jon were both fooled by the Mulliner-like dummy dumb-iron cover, and Jon's later suggestion of an early Sports doesn't work either.
Howard picked up most of the clues, but no, a Boyd Carpenter it ain't.
I like Andy's idea of a prototype Water Ski Special - a brilliant idea.
Russell correctly identified the other cars, but failed to come up with an answer to the Austin's id.
Sorry Alan and Jeff, it was definitely an Austin Seven, and no, Zeto, a Frog-Eye body would have been far too wide!
John also picked up on the side-mounted spare, so he was getting close ...
... and Dave was spot on with his id of Don Rowarth's scrapyard.
The truth is the Seven is a complete figment of my imagination
I sketched the other cars in Don's yard - the drophead in the background was a Roesch Talbot 75 - probably a James Young body - from which my father salvaged a good number of bits. The van, by the way, was an Austin Sixteen. But the Seven didn't exist!
I rather fancied the idea of a coachbuilt car with a side-mounted spare, and did not consider, until too late, that there wasn't room to have that and an opening passenger's door.
And now Tony expects me to nominate a winner! Grrrr ...
I think I will nominate ... drum roll ...
Howard Wright as the winner, as he was the only one to query the possibility of having both the side-mounted spare and a passenger door, whilst identifying the other key features which would confirm it as a Vintage short-chassis car.
Now I'm going to hibernate until spring, in case Tony comes up with something else.
Peter started us off by suggesting a Swallow, and later a Gordon England Stadium; half right with the coachbuilt idea, and crucially you identified a problem with the spare wheel mounting.
Sorry Ian, a Military model is a bit far adrift.
Terry and Jon were both fooled by the Mulliner-like dummy dumb-iron cover, and Jon's later suggestion of an early Sports doesn't work either.
Howard picked up most of the clues, but no, a Boyd Carpenter it ain't.
I like Andy's idea of a prototype Water Ski Special - a brilliant idea.
Russell correctly identified the other cars, but failed to come up with an answer to the Austin's id.
Sorry Alan and Jeff, it was definitely an Austin Seven, and no, Zeto, a Frog-Eye body would have been far too wide!
John also picked up on the side-mounted spare, so he was getting close ...
... and Dave was spot on with his id of Don Rowarth's scrapyard.
The truth is the Seven is a complete figment of my imagination
I sketched the other cars in Don's yard - the drophead in the background was a Roesch Talbot 75 - probably a James Young body - from which my father salvaged a good number of bits. The van, by the way, was an Austin Sixteen. But the Seven didn't exist!I rather fancied the idea of a coachbuilt car with a side-mounted spare, and did not consider, until too late, that there wasn't room to have that and an opening passenger's door.
And now Tony expects me to nominate a winner! Grrrr ...
I think I will nominate ... drum roll ...
Howard Wright as the winner, as he was the only one to query the possibility of having both the side-mounted spare and a passenger door, whilst identifying the other key features which would confirm it as a Vintage short-chassis car.
Now I'm going to hibernate until spring, in case Tony comes up with something else.