By Robert Emslie
No one managed to correctly identify last week’s contender and while I’m loathe to give you the answer straight up, I am going to give you another shot of the car, one that I think will make its identity immediately recognizable.
You all offered some great – and remarkably close – guesses, but as you can see above, no one quite got it spot on. Coming up very shortly, another Mystery Car!
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Kamil Kaluski
Dang.
Some got that side molding, some didn’t apparently.
Robert, how about to last week’s thread, so we don’t have to page back to find it?
http://hooniverse.info/2015/05/01/mystery-car-234/
It’s not the fastest way there, but you can also click “mystery car” in the byline/post date line.
Okay we now know it’s a Jensen but that’s about it.
That’s funny, last week I was thinking Jensen, but know so little of the models couldn’t get my head around it from there.
Ok, then it is a Jensen Healey. It must be a later version because the early models did not have the strip on the side.
Since the logo is obviously Jensen, and the hint last week was Landrover, I’m going to vote for a Jensen FF, made 66-71 and powered by a Chrysler 383 V8. The significance here is the Ferguson Formula (FF) AWD system similar to the center differential based system introduced on the Range Rover in 1970
Ah, Harry Ferguson. Partner-turned-nemesis of Henry Ford, inventor of tractors and 4 wheel drive and general perfectionist. Who else would put 4wd and disc brakes on a 1952 sedan?
http://img.siol.net/10/046/634018212455406379_ferguson01.jpg
Yup; a Jensen Healey. Colin Chapman’s clever way of getting someone else to pay for the development and warranty costs of the Type 907 4 cylinder engine.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_907
“http://www.british-steel.org/brochure/jh/jh_74_br1_2_l.jpg”