Name that car . . . .

[orconn]

Originally Posted by hardrockcamaro@mac.c

Is it an Allied?

I have never heard of a car named a "Allied," did you mean Allard? While the mystery car is was contemporary of the Allard (a British car) and both were used in early US road racing. The car is not an Allard.

[hardrockcamaro@mac.c]

No I actually meant an Allied.

Very rare fiberglass bodies cars from the early 50s:

http://www.tamsoldracecarsite.net/My...iberglass.html

[orconn]

^^^ Now the Allied is a car I had never heard of before. First glance I thought, as I'm sure everyone did, that it was a Cistalia, but the article cleared that up. I'm not clear that Allied qualified as a car manufacturer but rather was a fiberglass body maker, of which there were many in the U.S. in the fifties and sixties; Devlin being the most prolific. But thank you for introducing me to this rare Cistalia knockoff body.

The mystery car here was manufactured by an actual auto manufacturer and the cars were supplied as luxury GT's or in a more stripped down version as racing cars ...... very similar to the British Allards during the 1950's. The mystery car's components were all of American origin and it was one of the first cars to use aircraft disc brakes on a production (1952). Needless to say the car was quite expensive in its' day and production figures were very low.

[AMGoff]

I'd hardly say that it was made by an actual auto manufacturer... More like the pipe dream of a washed up racing driver that used a mishmash of parts from all of the "Big Four" American manufacturers - GM, Ford, Chrysler, and Studebaker and only a handful were ever built.

It's an "Edwards America" and it was light (about 2500lbs), fast, and relatively expensive (around $55-65,000 in today's dollars). That particular model is either a 1953/54 and had either a 205HP Lincoln 317 Y-Block or a Cadillac 331 V8 with 230HP and a hefty 330lb-ft of torque.... Both were mated to a GM Hydramatic.

It was a good idea plagued by bad timing...

[orconn]

We have a winner! And the winner is .........AMGoff!

[Eric Kahn]

not my turn but here is one

car and my messy garage
and it's for sale

[orconn]

Is it a Reynard formula car? Appears to have once had a Buick engine.

[AMGoff]

Originally Posted by Eric Kahn

not my turn but here is one

car and my messy garage
and it's for sale

HEY! I know exactly what it is - officially irrelevant.

Wait your damn turn and peddle your merchandise elsewhere... I'm trying to come up with something good here.

[Eric Kahn]

I don't expect anyone to buy it, not a reynard formula car, american series

if you come up with something good, I will not be able to guess it

[orconn]

It has been four days since AMGoff identified the Edwards-American thus winning the round. Haven't had a new mystery car as yet from him. Maybe we just through it open to the next person with a car to put up for us to identify?

[AMGoff]

Blah blah blah... Because we all (or at least some of the more pedantic amongst us) have nothing better to do than worry about how often this silly little game gets updated and posted to. As I said, I was trying to think of something good, so much along the same lines of the last entry, here ya go - Name the year (as close as possible), manufacturer, and model:

[Aron9000]

Originally Posted by orconn

It has been four days since AMGoff identified the Edwards-American thus winning the round. Haven't had a new mystery car as yet from him. Maybe we just through it open to the next person with a car to put up for us to identify?

I'll post one then . . . . .

[AMGoff]

Originally Posted by Aron9000

I'll post one then . . . . .

Sorry... beat you to it.

[Aron9000]

Originally Posted by AMGoff

Sorry... beat you to it.

by about 30 seconds I'll take mine down.

[Eric Kahn]

Mine was a 1986 march buick wildcat used in the indy lights series during the mid to late 80's
don't even know if march is still making race cars

I would guess the orange one is an AMC javelin race car, not sure what the 2 seat sports car is