![]() ![]() The E-Type photo' is from a slightly lower vantage point, making the mystery car look slightly taller against it, and even then the power-bulge of the E-Type is taller and further forward. Overlaying an E-Type picture on the mystery car with the wheelbases aligned gives a reasonable idea how they could line-up. ![]() In any event, I think the unknown car is too low for an E-Type. The number plate and tail lights are possibly the only scaleable/known items unless anyone can identify the mirrors, fuel flap etc? If the wheel/tyre size were known, for example, then at least we would have a solid clue. More akin to something like a jaguar e type.Unfortunately, I don't think there is anything in either picture that gives a really good sense of scale. The wheelbase of this mystery car is far larger than that of an eleven though. This is a red Byers I think next to a white Kellison Hard to see the kick up in the waistline of the mystery car due to the cutout uld the hardtop and rear bulge have been added between the rear fender tails? The shape of the added rear curvature could have been dictated by the available rear windscreen.Īpparently this Byers SR100 design was flogged off to Kellison in the late 50s who produced the more more muscular and flamboyant 1960s J series cars mentioned in other theories (and which it definitely isn't). I wish whoever the snapper was of the red car had got a front/grille view as it would have helped enormously.Ĭlose but no cigar? Fuel filler in the right place. I dont think the mystery car is this necessarily but it is very similar and deserves analysis. Something similar I was not aware of until yesterday, the Byers SR100 (I still cant get over how there are still cars around that I have nt seen before depsite being an utter car nerd for the past 48 years) The doors have been glassed up, hence the white-ish ghost verticle line behind the front wheel, and the cutout made at the waist line to clamber in through the possible backward hinged (or just clipped down) hardtop. My theory is this was originally a 2 seat convertible body, with a low hard top added for "aerodynamics". Possibly somebody even thought it a worthwhile candidate for a GRP kit body that didn't get to market. If 'KUR 3C' is an indication of a 1965 re-registration, the old Lotus Elevens would be out-dated and uncompetitive on the track, and rather strange/impractical for road use, though certainly still quick by the standards of the day. It was low-built, and suitable for a more conventional body, like this Ghia Aigle built one-off, which also features chunkier wheels and tyres than the original Lotus spec. The standard wheels were taller/thinner than the mystery car, but that would be an easy-enough swap. However, the Lotus Eleven Le Mans had a tubular chassis, DeDeon rear axle/inboard brakes. The Lotus Elite Type 14 (1957–1963) wouldn't work as it had a GRP monocoque. They had similar wheels/tyres, but were very short, with a rather too upright driving position. TVR used inboard brakes on some of their early models, like this Grantura. ![]()
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