Class: Cars, Convertible — Model origin:
Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase
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◊ 2010-03-09 20:41 |
No, not an MG... |
◊ 2010-03-09 21:14 |
Nash-Healey? |
◊ 2010-03-09 21:26 |
No. Only the 1951 Nash-Healey had a split window. But those had already exterior door handles... |
◊ 2010-03-09 21:52 |
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◊ 2010-03-09 22:20 |
I may have got it ... Allard K3? http://www.kitfoster.com/images/2009-6-13_AllardK3Web-Large.jpg |
◊ 2010-03-09 23:14 |
Though the windscreen is rather different you might have found the right answer, Chris. Chapeau! |
◊ 2010-03-19 18:25 |
Apart from the very unfamiliar windscreen, there are other details – front end, door cutout, dashboard – that look wrong, too, so I don’t think this is an Allard. My guess is an even rarer beast, Allied Swallow. Allied (originally Atlas) Fiberglass was a small Californian manufacturer of Cisitalia-like plastic bodyshells for sports cars in the fifties; here is a coupe on Kurtis chassis from 1955: http://www.fantasyjunction.com/cars/24-Kurtis-N/A-Lincoln%20V8 Note the windscreen frame (the car in the movie looks rather like a coupe converted into a cabriolet than a genuine roadster), and the round, push-button door handle... |
◊ 2010-03-19 19:33 |
could be... |
◊ 2015-05-07 03:38 |
Do any of these still exist? |
◊ 2015-05-08 00:08 |
According this article Link to "www.undiscovered-classics.com" roundabout the half of all ever made. Quite a lot. |
◊ 2015-05-08 23:33 |
Impressive. Nice finds either way! ![]() |