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Location: Sherwood Forest
Car type: 1938 Talbot Ten Airline
That looks to me like it may have started life as an R saloon; the windscreen pillars and the length of the rear body are wrong for a Longbridge-built tourer. However, as we have found with other Spanish Sevens, there were obviously many skilled craftsmen who managed to re-purpose Sevens over the years and it will be hard to positively identify how the car was originally.
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Location: Melton Mowbray.
Adrian,
Impossible to say what it started out as. It's a real mish mash of items. Could have been an R type but who knows without further information.
Love the tell tales on the top of the headlights - very ingenious!
Chris.
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Location: Peak District, Derbyshire
Car type: 1929 Chummy, 1930 Chummy, 1930 Ulster Replica, 1934 Ruby
12-12-2021, 02:13 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-12-2021, 02:17 PM by Tony Griffiths.)
One thing that often survives unchanged - or at least with original instruments - is the dashboard. A picture of that might help? Quite clearly the hood and frame are "home-made" and not ex-factory, so helping to strengthen Mike's original deduction.
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Has a charm of its own but is undoubtedly a 'desayuno del perro'.
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Is the identity stamped on the transmission tunnel?
I think it looks like a cut down 'R' saloon.
Jim
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Location: New Forest
Car type: 27 Chummy
Many thanks everyone for your comments.
I will report back and see if we can get some further details.
Adrian.
