Reply to: Mystery car ID
Forget what I said about Arnolt-Bristols, it's nothing like any pictures of
A-B's I could find in my collection.
Change my vote to:
99% Austin-Healey 100-4 with a homebuilt custom nose and grille treatment.
1% AH show car, customized by some Carrozziera xxxxxxxxxx.
The windshield frame shape, bonnet shape and louvers, door shape, side view
shape, trunk lid shape, trunklid hinges and handle, taillight style and
position, location of the side curtain mounting holes in the door, all say "AH
100-4".
Only three things seem to put a fly in the ointment.
1. The nose treatment, of course (perhaps an early attempt to emulate a
Cobra?).
2. The wire wheel covers (my book says centerlock knock-off wires were
standard).
3. In my pictures of 100-4's there are chrome strips running along the top of
the front and rear fenders, which the mystery car appears to lack (Bondoed
over, perhaps?).
So I'll bow out and let the AH experts take it from here.
Now, what to do with it?
My vote is to restore it as it is, a period racer, custom Healey, somebody's
1960's era emulation of a Cobra.
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