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[404KF2]

John Waterhouse from Australia took these photos, apparently at the Shelsley Walsh Hillclimb in England in 2005.

 

The look and general aspect is redolent of the EX-1 twincam racers and successors, but surely it can't be?

 

Does anyone know this car and what it is?

 

 

 

[cpbell]

Resembles the 1913 L3 to me.

[404KF2]

That's what I thought but there are supposedly only two known to survive and they're both blue and in the USA.

[Tim Murray]

The car is the 1913 Peugeot 148 of Clive Press, fitted with a 9,934 cc Hall-Scott (A7a?) aero engine and bodied to resemble the EX series of racing cars. Here’s what TNFer Arttidesco wrote about the car in his blog a few years ago:

https://www.psychoon...-scott-special/

[404KF2]

Thanks Tim!

[cpbell]

The car is the 1913 Peugeot 148 of Clive Press, fitted with a 9,934 cc Hall-Scott (A7a?) aero engine and bodied to resemble the EX series of racing cars. Here’s what TNFer Arttidesco wrote about the car in his blog a few years ago:

https://www.psychoon...-scott-special/

Brilliant stuff!

[Bloggsworth]

Where else but TNF!

[cpbell]

Where else but TNF!

Of course...

[jcbc3]

Why so impressed? It took more than six hours to get an answer.

 

 

 

 

[404KF2]

Where else but TNF!

 

That's why I asked here - I figured: skip the rest, go to the best.

[Tim Murray]

Why so impressed? It took more than six hours to get an answer.

Some of us need to sleep occasionally.

[cpbell]

Some of us need to sleep occasionally.

Some of us got the answer wrong!

[Roger Clark]

The car is the 1913 Peugeot 148 of Clive Press, fitted with a 9,934 cc Hall-Scott (A7a?) aero engine and bodied to resemble the EX series of racing cars. Here’s what TNFer Arttidesco wrote about the car in his blog a few years ago:

https://www.psychoon...-scott-special/

A small point on Artidesco's blog.  He says that the EX3 won the 1913 Grand Prix and Indianapolis 500.  The first part is true but I think the 500 winner was one of the 1912 cars, L76 or EX1, reduced in capacity to comply with the 450Cu inch limit so possibly L73(!)

[Michael Ferner]

Roger's correct. The 1913 Indy winner was a 1912 Peugeot with a suitably reduced bore. The 1913 model never won at Indy, but did win the 1915 Grand Prize and Vanderbilt Cup.