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I think I found the site, but will leave the reveal to you. Couldn't find anything about Tucker Motors in Marblehead, but there has always been pockets of sports car activity in that area. During the '50s, Beverly Airport (about 10 miles from Marblehead) hosted all the big names at the time like Phil Hill and Carroll Shelby for their sports car races. During the '70s, Autodynamics, which produced Formula Vees and the Sam Posey Challenger Trans Am car was located in Marblehead.
 
OK,<HERE> is the link to the sale site. The car is a 1958 Westland Empire Aristocrat Prototype.
Anybody heard of it?
Rick it's close to you if you want it :greedy_dollars:
 
Interesting that the Facebook link on that site is in Russian. hmmmm ...

But - at least they do list some Humber Super Snipes!
 
Wonder if it has any relation to Westland helicopters in the UK?
 
Gliderman8 said:
OK,<HERE> is the link to the sale site. The car is a 1958 Westland Empire Aristocrat Prototype.
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It's coming up for auction with a price of $60-80k estimate in March: https://www.auctionsamerica.com/eve...&feature=&collection=&grouping=&category=Cars It was also offered for auction in 2011 at Owl's head, Maine.

The Healey connection is interesting, built right around the time of the introduction of the Bugeye in 1958. The present holder of the records that Healey historian Bill Emerson refers to in your link, Daniel Schlatter, is a Swiss banker who bought the ill fated Lemans 100S, NOJ 393. It would be interesting to see what records he has relating it to the Healeys. My guess it was something Healey was aware of, but not involved in the design or construction.
 
Westlands were body builders in Hereford, and they did make bodies for Healey.
But surely this car was never meant to be anything but a very basic framework on which to mount a body. Thse sheer size of it, with an A-type engine, suggests it had negligible performance.
An interesting might-have-been?
 
Roger said:
Westlands were body builders in Hereford, and they did make bodies for Healey.
But surely this car was never meant to be anything but a very basic framework on which to mount a body. Thse sheer size of it, with an A-type engine, suggests it had negligible performance.
An interesting might-have-been?
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That would explain the look on it's face.
 
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