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BIG SUPERCHARGER MOUNTED TO REAR OF ENGINE DRIVEN OFF TWIN BELT PULLEY ON SHORT PROPSHAFT BETWEEN FLYWHEEL AND WILSON PRESELECTOR GEARBOX!

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[peter scott]

A very interesting car! Does it have individual handbrakes for the rear wheels?

Peter
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1939 SS Jaguar 2 1/2 litre saloon

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[colwyn500]

Great car and nice history.. Also a credit to this forum how its most recent progress has been tracked.

How brilliant to find Monty.

[Penman]

Hi
If you are still in contact with the designer/builder, it would be interesting to know if he was influenced by the Bertone designed Arnolt Bristol.
The coupe had the wings cutaway behind the front wheels and both the open cars and coupes had those sharp lines along the tops of the wings
Pop up head lights also featured.

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Bristols should always come in pairs.

Any 2 from:-
Straight 6
V8 V10

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[peter scott]

Radials on the front, cross plies on the rear?


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1939 SS Jaguar 2 1/2 litre saloon

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[Derek Mack]

To the new MOSTYN Special owner:

I was excited to hear news of the Mostyn Special, a machine that Monty Mostyn and I spent nearly two years of evenings and weekends to build at his parent’s garage, Whitton Service Station. Monty was the power and financier behind the project while I engineered and made the chassis detail for him aided by a very skilful acetylene welder.
I also created a quarter scale clay sculpture of the body shape on a wooden space model of the finished car. This owed much to the Aston Martins of the era and was well chewed by many. The perimeter and loft lines were re-created on the full-scale chassis with small diameter steel tubing, on which a small local body shop “tin bashed” the light alloy body shell. Livery finish was light battleship grey with red trimming.
The Austin Healey engine was one of three bought as scrap when the London taxis went over to diesel power. The Wilson gearbox was discovered on a test rig at the local scrap yard; we found it had only been used in reverse! The rear axle and supercharger were new items as were the original drum brakes before discs became affordable.
In my day, Monty drove the car at “around the pylon” driving tests, which proved popular at the time, and did the occasional hill climb and sprint trial. His full-bore gear changes on the hills and sprints got expensive in half shafts, which frequently twisted at the inner spline. Another early snag with pre-ignition; initially cured by water injection but the method proved impractical in the long term so a less aggressive ignition advance curve was devised.
If you have restored the beast to it’s former beauty I’d love a few photos for old times sake together with an idea of the cars mileage if the original speedometer has survived – does it boast electronic ignition these days?

Best regards, Derek Mack
derek@moosejam.co.uk
15thApril 2015

[JC T ONE]

Hi & welcome

Nice to get some more story on this "beast"


Jens Christian
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[Calum]

What a superb looking machine!!