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Yet another mystery car - sorry
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 8:22 pm    Post subject: Yet another mystery car - sorry Reply with quote



Trying to identify this one that has been sent to me. The number plate suggests West Bromwich but this is certainly not a Jensen.

But very likely it could be a Jensen body of what sort of chassis?

The headlight behind the grille suggest Le Mans, but anyone got any answers?
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 9:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My first thoughts were Bristol 401 and BMW 328 but neither had the same wheels.

Here's a Delage that looks like it might have the same wheels if not much else.

Peter



and another Delage using the same wheels.



Its proportions and grill look more like a Talbot Lago though


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PostPosted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 9:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm thinking Richard Meade here - the guy who built the Marauder bodies, and a bevy of one-off very stylish bodies on various chassis. I think I recognise the premises.
The wheels look Fordish to me.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 8:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Grille and the paired headlights behind it are typical of the late 40's Peugeot 202.Whether the car is based on that seems a little doubtful though.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 7:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

poodge wrote:
The Grille and the paired headlights behind it are typical of the late 40's Peugeot 202.Whether the car is based on that seems a little doubtful though.


With respect, the Peugeot grille is (almost) similar, but certainly not the same grille as the car pictured above.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 1:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Healey Silverstone had similar headlamps behind the grille but the body had cycle wings. They did have connections with Jensen as well.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 4:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

**** ONLY FOUR YEARS LATER .... ****

It's a 1938 Steyr 19.8hp

The full story is that well known special builder / car dealer Michael McEvoy imported four of these chassis. One went to Jensen, who had bodied his "McEvoy Specials" from the early thirties and was fitted with a traditional DHC body to become the one-off Jensen K-type. The other three McEvoy had these streamlined bodies fitted to by Frank Devey, who was one of Jensen's senior coach-builders. It seems that this was a sort of unofficial 'private' commission rather than official Jensen coachbuilds, though clearly they were complicit

The K-type is no longer with us, but one of the three McEvoy streamliners is.

Yours, belatedly!
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 6:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The system works Smile

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 10:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bengt Axel wrote:
**** ONLY FOUR YEARS LATER .... ****

It's a 1938 Steyr 19.8hp

The full story is that well known special builder / car dealer Michael McEvoy imported four of these chassis. One went to Jensen, who had bodied his "McEvoy Specials" from the early thirties and was fitted with a traditional DHC body to become the one-off Jensen K-type. The other three McEvoy had these streamlined bodies fitted to by Frank Devey, who was one of Jensen's senior coach-builders. It seems that this was a sort of unofficial 'private' commission rather than official Jensen coachbuilds, though clearly they were complicit

The K-type is no longer with us, but one of the three McEvoy streamliners is.

Yours, belatedly!


Thank you so much for your reply! You refer to the car as a "Jensen K-Type", was this official Jensen factory nomenclature do you know? I have no records of such a name / model. Were the other three cars all to the same style?

Are there any current photos of the survivor(s)?
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 12:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, K-type was an official Jensen model, even though only one was built. The driving force (no pun intended) behind all this was Michael McEvoy, an interesting character who had been involved with the Jensen brothers from their earliest days in the coachbuilding business. McEvoy had various business interests including being the UK importer of Zoller superchargers and was involved with KMW Motors, the UK Steyr importer based near Donington Park. They offered his streamliners for sale at £675, or £750 with a Zoller blower.

If the link still works check out this for a photo of the one survivor;
http://www.prewarcar.com/magazine/previous-features/steyr-descending-back-from-scotland-to-austria-upd-zoller-blower-missing-015368.html

I got most of the rest of my info from Richard Calver's website (www.richardcalver.com) and would highly recommend his book "Jensen - All the Models". Seventy-Five quid might seem a lot for a 'paperback' but if you think of it in terms of the many thousands of hours of research that Richard put in, then it seems completely reasonable ..... (-;

The best way to get the book is to contact Richard directly.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 12:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is turning into a 'small world' story. I visited Freddie once and must have been only a few feet from this car. To be fair it would have been lost in the dozens of cars that were there.

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