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Jam2

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Forgotten Vintage
« on: April 18, 2024, 15:14:55 »
There appears to be a vintage AC at about 29:20 in this video, although the wheels and body do look rather odd!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zea39EzADBI

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Re: Forgotten Vintage
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2024, 18:12:01 »
Yes, it is really odd.

I remember this car being on Ebay in 2016. Apparently, some years earlier the chassis, with transaxle, was removed from under wrecks in a scrapyard. The new owner, working in the restoration business, started to build a body from drawings but stopped due to ill-health. The engine was not AC, it was from a Nissan, and there are many other things not right e.g. wheels, dashboard, electrics, steering wheel. The body is wrong in places e.g. windscreen design but there was, at the time, the possibility of either having a usable car or restoring this to being more original. I don't believe it had a V5, so chassis number would have been important for the DVLA.

First couple of photos, below, taken from the video and third photo the car as advertised in 2016.