Amelia Island Concours D'elegance

[JonE]

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.

[Ian Williams]

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.

[Mike Costigan]

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:


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[Tony Griffiths]

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?    

[jpsmit]

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/...lor/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)

[Tony Griffiths]

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/...lor/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.

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.

[Tony Press]

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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.

[Mike Costigan]

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.

[Ruairidh Dunford]

Is this the same car in 1965?

   

[JonE]

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...