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William Goodall
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William Goodall
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William Goodall
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William Goodall
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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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William Goodall
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Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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peter scott
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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A very interesting car! Does it have individual handbrakes for the rear wheels?
Peter _________________ http://www.nostalgiatech.co.uk
1939 SS Jaguar 2 1/2 litre saloon |
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William Goodall
Joined: 26 Feb 2015 Posts: 13
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Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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peter scott wrote: | A very interesting car! Does it have individual handbrakes for the rear wheels?
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Yes it has separate hand brake levers, Monty was interested in doing driving tests and hill climbs. The car was originally on drum brakes and the individual levers probably were effective as a poor mans lsd ! It was soon fitted with disc brakes and I would think there was little chance of any effective retardation of a spinning inside wheel ! |
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colwyn500
Joined: 21 Oct 2012 Posts: 1745 Location: Nairn, Scotland
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Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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Great car and nice history.. Also a credit to this forum how its most recent progress has been tracked.
How brilliant to find Monty.
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Penman
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4756 Location: Swindon, Wilts.
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Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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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.
http://tinyurl.com/nw2jzk4 _________________ Bristols should always come in pairs.
Any 2 from:-
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William Goodall
Joined: 26 Feb 2015 Posts: 13
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Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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Penman wrote: | 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.
http://tinyurl.com/nw2jzk4 |
Yes, agreed it has similarities with one or two of it's contemporaries..... the Arnolt being one, plus add a bit of DB3S and also the HWM frontal treatment with the Lucas spot lamps as headlamps. |
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peter scott
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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Radials on the front, cross plies on the rear?
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JC T ONE
Joined: 30 Oct 2008 Posts: 1139 Location: Denmark
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Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2015 3:55 am Post subject: |
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William Goodall wrote: |
The last picture is of the creator of this marvellous car, Monty Mostyn who hadn't seen it since selling in the 1960's
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What a great story well done of you to reunite the builder & car again
Hope to hear & see more of this car & its history.
Jens Christian
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Derek Mack
Joined: 14 Apr 2015 Posts: 1
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Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 12:03 am Post subject: Mostyn Special |
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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
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JC T ONE
Joined: 30 Oct 2008 Posts: 1139 Location: Denmark
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Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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Hi & welcome
Nice to get some more story on this "beast"
Jens Christian _________________ http://www.eurods.eu/wp/index.html |
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Calum
Joined: 07 Feb 2011 Posts: 100 Location: Midgley, W Yorks
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Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2015 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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What a superb looking machine!! |
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