Could someone please identify the green car in Tony Smith's painting "Those were the days"
Thanks in advance
www.paintboxgallery.com/tony3.html
|
|
I'm too young, but Jowett Javelin?
|
|
|
Agree - it looks a faily good likeness of an XK 120. There was a similarity with the Jowett Jupiter, a sports car based (I think) on the saloon Javelin.
Jowett fell victim to unreliable cars and financial problems (sounds familiar...) in the early 1950's, and many of their dealers became Volkswagen agents.
|
www.cgettins.demon.co.uk/xk120.jpg
Could almost be the same car!
Do a Google on images xk120 - lots of pictures!
--
pmh (was peter)
|
The real question is what is the Green car in the background, or more difficult still, the bonnet just poking out of the garage?
--
pmh (was peter)
|
|
The green one looks like a Beetle.
|
|
|
If in doubt read the question!!! Mods please delete my last 3 replies to save face!
Oh for a post submit edit facility.
--
pmh (was peter)
|
|
|
The real question is what is the Green car in the background,
Actually, that's the one I meant - the one that is driving away from us. Are you sure it's a Beetle, Mark?
Whatever it is, not nearly as stylish as the Jaguar!
|
I don't think it's a Beetle - it tapers off to the end.
--
Adam
|
|
|
|
|
|
The bonnet stuck out of the garage is a blower bentley. If you enlarge the image, you can quite clearly see the blower stuck out low down at the front.
I think, with a great deal of wishful thinking, the green car might possibly be the back end of a citroen DS, but undoubtably someone will come up with something better.
WTM
|
|
I'm going with the Jowett theory.
|
My immediate thought was also a Javelin,
see
www.motorbase.com/profiles/vehicle/picture.ehtml?i...9
what do you think?
|
Isn't the green one a Citroen of some description?
Did they exist then?
|
The principal subject is an XK 120 which I believe, from the chromed sidelamp fairings, to be one of the original 200 with alloy bodies, intended as owner paid for test beds for the XK engine before it went into the MkVII. At Earl's Court in '48 I was going to have one when things improved; still waiting.
Agreed blower Bentley sticking out of garage.
The green car looks French but seems to lack the straight bar across the rear above the number plate and the high mounted indicator lamps of the DS; and the DS was a few years later than the 120 or the split screen Minor. I tentatively suggest some sort of rear engined Renault.
|
PS Nice to see the petrol choice and the forecourt service!
|
|
Could it be a Saab 99?
|
Sorry that should tbe the Saab 92. Try this link.
www.saabmuseum.com/92/index.html
|
|
|
|
PS Nice to see the petrol choice and the forecourt service!
The pump attendant is probably smiling because he has just put the price up to 2s6d per gallon, thinking to gouge the rich townies in their flash motor. :-)
WTM
|
|
My old man has confirmed it to be as near a Jowett as possible. He had one for a while, he says the proportions are a bit suspect.
|
Not a Javelin - the back is too sawn off, and even if that is an illusion there is to much of a waist - the doors are pretty vertical on a Javelin - and it lacks the distinct mudwings.
The nearest I can get is a Saab 92/93; but this is troubling me a bit - the other cars are classic British models so this should be too, unless it's the token foreigner. Foreign cars in the 50s and early 60s were a relative rarity anyway; my uncle was considered a bit suspect for having a Peugeot...
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sorry - I too failed to read 'green car' in Tyro's original post. Agree with early Saab.
If you blow the image up as far as possible you can see a vaguely recognisable black car behind the Morris Minor. Late 40's something possibly a Morris 8?
|
Jaguar XK120. No question about it. Probably 1949 going by the number plate.
--
L\'escargot by name, but not by nature.
|
|
Yes but he asked about the green car. The XK120 is easy.
|
|
|
|
Being really nerdy now - there is a website www.newreg.com which can tell you when a number was first issued. The XK120 (which I know we weren't talking about!) appears to be a '51.
|
|
|
|
|
If you go here
www.washingtongreen.co.uk/artists/tony_smith/colle...2
you can get more detail by zooming in.
I thought it might be a Bentley Continental or an Aston DB3 coupe but am undecided as yet.Certainly it's not a Saab, Beetle or Jowett Javelin. Keep the ideas coming.
Hawkeye
-----------------------------
Stranger in a strange land
|
OK then, what's the motorbike???
|
|
|
|
Perhaps the green car is an artist's impression?
The bike is a 350 Matchless.
|
Aston Martin DB2 - see:
www.goolsbee.org/ma/images/friday/aston.jpg
Presumably in a 'Those were the days' kind of picture all the vehicles would have been British! Looking at DB2 pics, the rear ends varied on different versions. But the giveaway for me was the two bright specks in the painting that coincide with the boot hinges in the photo. The tyres look a bit skinny, though.
The Saab 92 had a split bumper and a lower rear window.
Cheers, SS
|
|
|
|
