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New year, new mystery car!

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smcmanus

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Is everyone still recovering from New Year's Eve? This might snap you out of it! It is obscur, polished aluminum, and absolutely beautiful.
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Well, its definitely TR3-based!
 
It's a Speedex. Probably a Sirocco roadster.

Similar to the many Austin Seven-based and early Lotus "clubman-type" kits built in the '50s and '60s.
They also built a "Lotus 7 type" car, a Silverstone sports racer and even go-carts.

The wheels give it away. Speedex was well-known for those cast wheels.
Probably a Ford 1500 engine with a Speedex chassis.

I couldn't find a picture of the roadster, but the GT (Coupe') can be found here:

https://speedexa7.users.btopenworld.com/index_files/Page1960.htm
 
tony barnhill said:
Well, its definitely TR3-based!
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Inspired maybe but not based. Not anything TR3 there. Except maybe the headlights. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
 
aeronca65t said:
It's a Speedex. Probably a Sirocco roadster.
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Well played!......Talk about obscure.

I like it! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
 
areonca65t beat me to it. Definitely Speedex A7 - the wheels are the dead giveaway, to say nothing of the A7 hubs poking through them.

I'm not sure Speedex built chassis for sale though, and this car having A7 hubs lead me to suggest an A7 chassis, with A7 or maybe Ford 1172 engine. Back then there weren't many 1500s used by clubmen.

I was reminiscing about the old days before he co-founded Marcos with Jem Marsh at Silverstone at the 750 MC 60th birthday a few years ago. There was an immaculate Speedex 750 car there - his actual Goodacre Trophy winning car.
 
Not Speedex, no Triumph parts. The wheels are misleading because originally different wheels were used.

You're back at it and hot on the trail. Perhaps an older picture will help.

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Well, there goes my 'definitely'...hehehehe /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cry.gif
 
Hmmm? That looks somewhat familiar. Where have I seen it before? Oh yea, now I remember!

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Just put it on some rails and we have a match! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
 
I didn't think of Triumph at all, although I can see where the thought might come from. But the three-lug wheels were one of the first things that caught my eye. I do remember that prewar and immediate postwar Standard 8s used similar wheel attachment. Other than that, I've no idea what this is!? ;-)
 
Andrew Mace said:
.....But the three-lug wheels were one of the first things that caught my eye. I do remember that prewar and immediate postwar Standard 8s used similar wheel attachment. Other than that, I've no idea what this is!? ;-)
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Austin 7s used a three-lug pattern too.

The wheels in the first image are Speedex....that virtually certain.

Now I'm guessing that whatever it it, it's built on Austin 7 suspension (and maybe an A7 chassis as well).

ANyway, I'm stumped! Very pretty little car, whatever it is!
 
English bodied Simca?!? Export DAF?

snappin' at hay ...no clue.
 
Oooh, sorry! Not Allard, Simca or others. Not French, but all English as far as I know. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/confused.gif

Another view to help clarify things!
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Give that man a cigar!

BTW, did you know the answer or get it from the filename I left on the last picture? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/shocked.gif

Have a nice day
Steve
 
That looks almost like a Marcos there WTN.
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if that works... it has to end at the .jpg - I just cut off the numbers after that.
 
kennypinkerton said:
it has to end at the .jpg - I just cut off the numbers after that.
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Cool....Thanks Kenny!

BTW...Wood is not a structural part of this car. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
smcmanus said:
BTW, did you know the answer or get it from the filename I left on the last picture? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/shocked.gif
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No, I didn't know the car, or have the filename. But I knew a likely place where to look for it....

Once the Big Healey's done I'd like to get another project, either a Saloon car (a nice mid-60s Bristol is what I've in mind) that I can persuade my wife would be a useful acquisition- or an older "special" (a Rochdale, maybe).
 
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