Name The Car

[Will66]

It\'s a Rare Model of a 1950s manufacturer that is probably something you\'ll not see everyday but isn\'t a rare manufacturer.

[KenD]

Definitely doing some head scratching here....was this a road going car or limited to the race track?  I ask as those exhausts are pretty unusual for the 50\'s and would not have been legal in some countries.

[KenD]

I went with a hunch and started looking up Le Mans races.  Would it be the Aston Martin DBR2?

[Will66]

KenD wins.

It\'s the Rizk replica, the stub exhausts are because it has an E Type motor rather than an Aston Martin one.

[KenD]

Thanks Will.  Some nice shots on the net of this unique car.  My favourite is this one:
http://www.lincah.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/1957-Aston-Martin-DBR2-revival-by-Rizk-Automobile-Front-Side-View.jpg

For some reason that last challenge made me think of this:

[Skifledanabit]

Eagle e type replica?

[KenD]

Eagle e type replica?

Lured in to my trap .  However the back end certainly bears a resemblance...the rest of the car doesn\'t though!
No, not an e-type or a replica of anything.

[jinx]

Ee lad, isn\'t that a Rochdale Olympic?

[KenD]

Ee lad, isn\'t that a Rochdale Olympic?

Aye, tis that and no mistake:).

Yes, the Rochdale Olympic from Rochdale Motor Panels & Engineering Ltd!  According to wiki about 400 made between 1959 and 1973.  

Well done jinx and over to you.

[jinx]

I saw you had outed a Fairthorpe [unkindly not from their finest hour :rolleyes: ] and now a Rochdale!

Well, if it\'s town names you want...this should be the work of an instant...You can\'t see the front but given the clue you should have no trouble picking the right name from its multiple identities.  Extra marks if anyone knows the part number for those rear lights.  :rollin:rollin:rollin

[KenD]

I guess this would be the Warwick GT in light of your clue jinx, although as you imply from this angle it could be the Peerless GT Coupe.  Eventually developed into something probably more well known:)

Not sure about the lights...Aston Martin DB4 springs to mind....but not the obvious car to take them from?

[jinx]

Part Number, part number Ken? Sorry, no extra points for you!! :rollin A win with the Peerless (Warwick) GT though, later reborn as something else entirely.  A carefully lit studio shot makes it look quite elegant; a shame that real life is less kind. Mind you, the same could be said about me.

I must stop playing this game, I\'m getting all misty eyed about an age when real men wore overalls and flat caps, rode a Raleigh \'All Steel Bicycle\' to work and had a Woodbine in the corner of their mouth or no further away than behind their ear. Those days when \'holiday\' meant reading the \'Sporting Life\' aboard a sternly upholstered Bedford OB coach en route to Butlins where the week would pass under lead grey skies (colour photos being for the gentry), among dreams of one day owning a Ford Anglia.

Have all the pigeons gone? Someone pass me a whippet, I\'m feeling a mite peckish.

[Our Finnish readers may have trouble with some (or all) of this. My apologies...it was not important!] Ken\'s ball. :WaveBye

[re japi]

Ya, I´m lost...

Quite funny, I did know that Brits had lots of car companys, but still new stuff keeps popping up. Companys that I have newer heard. But i do love body styling of those old British cars..

[KenD]

A carefully lit studio shot makes it look quite elegant; a shame that  real life is less kind. Mind you, the same could be said about me.

I\'m sure the same could be said about a lot of us!  Other readers please do not take offence:Laugh.
Thinking of overalls I recall my elder brother in the mid 60\'s slowly putting together a Berkeley in our garage.  And I remember going on holidays with family friends in a Bedford Dormobile Mk1.  Not sure there was any Woodbines though:)
Those were the days, mainly British built cars on the roads...wonder how many on this forum can say they own a British made car today....I can\'t!

Right enough of that, stand-by for the next one.

[KenD]

Back to the family car theme now....said elder brother got himself one of these: