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Despite my best efforts, I am no further forward

What was it?

Well that wasn’t easy. I must be the only one who actually likes the front end styling, and I know where the headlights came from!

That is interesting, I am holidaying in Devon at the moment, only a few miles from Loddiswell. I might go there to see if anything remains of Quantum Sports Cars.

Oh Boy, this is inspiring! Beautiful work Michael.

Well I deserve to fail this week, it is so obviously a member of the Borgward family. Even with poor signal coverage I should have got this one.

Yeah, looks familiar to me too, but it isn’t what I thought it should be. Luckily enough, I am on vacation again, in a field in Devon, UK. Lovely place but not much signal coverage so I'll just have to wait for the big reveal on Sunday. Some may sympathise but most will recognise a cop out when they see one. C'est la Vie.

I learn something new almost every week on Autoquiz.

53-54 Plymouth, Cranbrook or Belvedre

Do you know when this car was built? I suspect that it must be quite recent, but there seems to be very little about it on line which is surprising. If you don’t have a tape measure handy, it would be very difficult to decide whether it was a Mercury or a Ford. Obviously I guessed wrong.

40 Ford?, on second thoughts it looks more like a 41. But considering that the 41 is truly rare (see what I did there?) it is more likely to be a 47. My final offer.

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This one is a ‘62 apparently. I was trying to guess the age based on the belt moulding, the slim grooved example shown here featured on a ‘60 sedan but I didn’t find any positive evidence of when it appeared on the Champ, I wrongly went for ‘63. Most examples I saw had a much broader moulding that tapered away to a point at the rear edge of the fender, some had a thin moulding extending across the door too. I even saw some with the “flyaway” fender moulding from the ‘62 Lark, were they factory fitted? I don’t know. As several people pointed out, it is very difficult to age a Champ accurately. Whoops, Michael beat me by two minutes on the age, fair enough, it was him who told me anyway.

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Oh oh, looks like it is me!

Of course, I should have recognised that.

Who is the designer Bill? I’ve looked but not found any reference to him so far.

A very impressive example of model making I think.

Can’t argue with that. I must be getting old, instead of rejoicing in the sheer madness of this beast, I find myself wearing health and safety goggles. That shifter looks dangerous, view ahead is a bit restricted and does it really need 800 bhp? It’s a good job nobody cares what I think!

The golden thing is real I’m afraid. Fabulous workmanship, but why?

Looks photoshopped to me.

That is ugly!

Beautiful job! I always disliked the rubber bumper B, but this one hits the spot. I read somewhere that after the 5 mph bumpers were engineered and passed for production, it was realised that if they had deleted the impact absorbing ironwork the total vehicle weight dropped below the threshold point for 5 mile an hour bumpers. In Europe we got the rubber bumpers without the heavy bit. One small point, white on black licence plates wouldn’t be legal on this car, after 1972 only white front and yellow rear reflective plates were permitted. We do see late model cars on black plates, but it is asking to be pulled over.

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