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Gliderman8

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A friend of mine sent me these pics of a British car but I can't identify it. It's English...It's got parts of Berkeley, Triumph, Austin Healey, and Daimler...???
Anybody know?

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Surely it's a special? Beauty, they say, is in the eye of the beholder. I wish I hadn't beheld it!
 
Well, I just found out what it is.... I'll let this run a little longer to see if anyone gets it. If not, I'll post what it is.
 
MG Frogmaster 2000 (or equivalent)? :fat:

No, wait, a Triumph Platypus 9000?
 
Well, whatever it turns out to be, I'd drive it! :driving:
 
Wait wait... now I have it. A large red sucker-fish made by Triumph.

Seriously, though, I think it is some sort of TR3 variant (with some other re-purposed bits).
 
Not Triumph based. It's got a Morris Minor 948cc engine and it was a prototype.
It will cost you big bucks Peter if you want to drive it... it's for sale.
 
Really looks like an early prototype of a bugeye sprite. It has a lot of features of the sprite, but highly distorted. After you saying it had the 948, that's my guess.
 
But but... that DASH!
 
There is some "possibility" that Healey had some involvement in this cars development but that has not been totally established yet.
Stand by for the reveal....
 
HealeyRick said:
Some kind of Turner?
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Don't know about that but the car did spend some time in your neck of the woods. Here's a quote from some of the description:
"The car was seen in 1958 or 1959 by Larry Pearry at the Tucker Motor Company in Marblehead. MA. He recalls that the car was referred to locally as “the lobsta”.
 
OK I'll post the link to reveal this car later but in the meantime I just watched the movie "Grumpy Old Men"... it's a good one
 
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