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Excellent, Richard, not surprised that you worked it out so quickly.

There is a picture of the car before skinning from an Article in MotorSport in 1936 and a follow up in 1987, see useful link below:

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/arch ... -the-moveo

The article mentions one complete car and possibly a second. My interest in the car is the 3.0 litre Meadows engine

In 1936 the Moveo was advertised by the Motor Traders Disposal Board in Marsh Lane Preston (part of the Bradshaw empire) for £195, fitted with a Rolls-Royce body. Could it have been the now-bodied second chassis?

Just before WW2 the car was owned by a doctor in Port Chester, New York and then, for over 40 years , despite rumours of it having gone to Newcastle or India, it was lost until the sad remains tumed up in East Africa in 1981.

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Anybody know what this car is, the model and year, and how many were made?
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This one is pretty difficult SRD. It look a bit like a prototype from maybe 1946 or 1947 for the A120 Austin Princess Vandenplas Limousine. It has PW overtones. What foxes me is the single sheet windscreen like the PW whereas I thought all production vehicles had split windscreens.

I don’t think this particular styling ever went into production.
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David hi

You are correct in time period and yes it is a prototype, but not made by Austin.

The car did go into production.

Given how quickly Richard solved my first puzzle, I thought it sensible to up the stakes slightly.

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It could be a Lagonda 3-Litre Saloon of about 1947. If so probably made in miniscule numbers perhaps 20
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It is a DB-Lagonda EX3.

One of a series of prototypes.

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Amazing that a prototype would have an AA badge fitted. Or was it later sold to the public?

And what is that thing fitted on top of the reg number. A radar :D
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Steve and David well done

It is indeed EX3 one of the three prototype Lagonda saloons developed by W O Bentley with his new 2.6 litre engine.

The company purchased by David Brown in 1947 and of course Aston Martin

EX3 was the third prototype saloon, clearly with small changes and developments following on from the first two EX prototypes. A photograph from the Lagonda archives by Klementaski taken in 1946 is shown. The car clearly in development with the pre-war style radiator as seen on the V12 and LG6 cars, and the body can be viewed as progression from these cars, bodied by Lagonda in house with its presumably first body. Note also the water filler cap, clearly an old radiator reused by the works.

Do note the earlier registration, 303 PD on this car, also the frontal view with bosoms visible, headlights to the front still in an experimental format and the closed in rear wings and wheel arches. The car was equipped with a Newton-Bennett centrifugal clutch and possibly a Cotal gear-box as well, with an early LB6 engine with outside timing chain. This car was used as personal transport by W O Bentley in the early years in the period 1945 through to early 1947.

Prior to 1947, EX3 was sent to Vanden Plas in Belgium as a bare chassis for a new body . The car was now registered LPF 775 and the frontal aspect of the car has changed significantly with the new oval shaped radiator clearly visible, and low placed fog lights, The rear wings do not yet have stone-guards, and there are wide-topped quarter lights and two-piece doors.

During the DB era, the experimental chassis was replaced by the works in period, to bring it to a standard spec, and no doubt make it more presentable to a customer. This car became LAG/50/443/EX3 in 1952, prior to sale. and was sold by the works to Sir Alaister McAlpine of the building group.

In total around 512 of the 2.6 saloons and dhc's made in period 1948 through to 1953.
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Fascinating!
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One for Grant... not a Jensen FF.....
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I'm guessing a Maserati of some sort.
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Mistral?
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Mark1Stu wrote: Sat Sep 18, 2021 6:30 pmMistral?
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Not Mistral but a 1965 Maserati Sebring S2. Its even got a 541S style grille :D
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