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Unusual Austin for sale?
Colin Morgan Offline
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#1
16-10-2022, 10:16 PM
Spotted this picture on a dealer's site I haven't visited for years.  The reg would put it about May 1930?


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16-10-2022, 10:26 PM
A boat tail two seater, about to be named the latest Spanish prototype!
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17-10-2022, 07:47 AM
ooh - a targa top! With interesting metalwork at the back corners. I wonder what the car number is - perhaps an easy one to cross check but if its got an original UK plate then probably not a Spanish prototype?
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17-10-2022, 09:19 AM
Spanish or not, it is reasonably goodlooking from most angles?  The rear 'window' is perhaps set a bit low for anyone tall? 

 
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17-10-2022, 09:45 AM
My comment was very much “tongue in cheek”, based on the recent trend to claim that one-off coupes coming out of Spain are “prototypes” rather than locally crafted efforts.

The car is a Boat Tail two seater, with a home made hard top fitted.
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17-10-2022, 11:07 AM (This post was last modified: 17-10-2022, 04:48 PM by Colin Morgan.)
Swallow two-seaters sometimes have a removable roof a bit like this, which appeared to be useful and practical.

It would be interesting to see what has been done with the doors on this one?
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17-10-2022, 07:59 PM
from the back - is that factory? Looks more like an aftermarket addition.
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17-10-2022, 09:10 PM
SORN'd - but not on A7CA Register.
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17-10-2022, 09:27 PM (This post was last modified: 17-10-2022, 10:47 PM by Colin Morgan.)
The back window makes it look very homemade - even if some of the rest of it looks better built. Closer examination might reveal if it has been cobbled together from something else available commercially or is a one-off?
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18-10-2022, 02:43 AM
(17-10-2022, 09:27 PM)Colin Morgan Wrote: The back window makes it look very homemade - even if some of the rest of it looks better built.  Closer examination might reveal if it has been cobbled together from something else available commercially or is a one-off?

Oops - I posted from ym phone, already spotted as home made top  Confused
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