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Location: Oakley, Hants, UK
Car type: 1929 AD Tourer, 1930 Rosengart LR2, Rosengart LR4 Van 1938 APE Tourer (Opal)
I bet he is proud of it !. Would be interested in what the paint job would have been like.
I am always interested in any information about Rosengart details or current owners.
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Location: Deepest Frogland 30960
Car type: 1933 RP Standard Saloon
Well I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but there's one thing that puzzles me - this car is apparently bearing a fairly recent new style French registration - the CQ series is about 3 or 4 years old. If that's the case how on earth did the person that cobbled up this special ever manage to get it past the FFVE - they are supposed to issue an "attestation" that the vehicle is genuine. I suspect, like many specials it was registered as the donor car and then stripped out to produce the rendition you see before you. Be interesting to see its documentation - it's probably about as good as the new body. I bet it's nice and quiet too with it's 4 - 1 exhaust and no silencer.
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Well, to me it just looks like somebody is continuing the the original tradition of A7 special building.
I'd like to see the front end though.
I wonder what the miniature gas street lamp is, poking up the back of the tonneau cover.
I think you guys are being a bit hard, and I've seen plenty worse specials.
Rant over.
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The little gas lamp is a mount for a GoPro video camera.
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(This post was last modified: 10-08-2017, 09:56 AM by Duncan Grimmond.)
The front end was a black radiator cowl with embossed Austin winged wheel and the forward aspect wasn't too bad. The square box bulge on the LHS was repeated symmetrically on the RHS and the rear floor sloped slightly downwards rather than upwards which must have been interesting to drive over the French "ralentisseurs" ( sleeping policemen). The run from the paddock to the start had a couple of dips on which I think he managed to scrape the tail.
If the big rivets are mirror screws I suppose the bodywork could be described as "QD" and so, at a stretch, it could be a quick temporary job for the event.
