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semisport
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 Posted - 29/01/2013 : 10:00:25
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Does anyone know if any of these Midget based specials were built and if so where I might find some more information and particularly further images?
Chris
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mgmog
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George Eagle
United Kingdom
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Posted - 29/01/2013 : 11:28:45
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Hi Chris
Welcome to the Triple-M website.
As far as I know there is only one surviving REAL bodied J2 and this was in attendance at the Pre-war Prescott meeting last August.
I believe I am correct in saying the late Mike Hawke found the body, the story is I think chronicled in one of our Yearbooks.
As yu can see from the attached photos the car has been beautifully restored.
George
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semisport
United Kingdom
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Posted - 29/01/2013 : 12:12:17
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Hello George thanks for your welcome and also the chance to see your photo of the car. My primary interest is the pre-war Morris Minor. When I found this ad in the November 1932 edition of Motor Sport I did wonder if a Demon body had ever been sold and fitted to a Minor chassis. However if only two J2 Demons were built it's unlikely that a Minor was thus converted. Having said that REAL did body a Ford Eight in 1933, so who knows?
Chris
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Terry Andrews
United Kingdom
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Posted - 29/01/2013 : 16:32:04
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| A lot of the work on this car was carried out by Colin Tieche. I have pictures of the car during this stage and the car was panelled by Steve Gilbert. I understand that the car was in a look up garage and the owner just managed to save it as it was being driven away on a lorry as the garage was cleared. Colin had the car for some time but then the owner decided to sell it and it went to Susses Sports cars...... Terry A |
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JMH
United Kingdom
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Posted - 29/01/2013 : 17:15:09
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This body is in fact from J0515, on which it was sitting when liberated from the car park of the King's Arms in Kings Stanley by Dad & Peter Davis. There is no hard evidence that it was originally bodied by REAL, however it was fitted when found in 1967.
The car in George's pic is known to be a REAL bodied car (J2083) exhibited at the 1932 Olympia Show, with an almost identical body, but with head fairings. Somewhere along the way, it lost that body, but on restoration acquired this genuine one which had taken a Hawke/Bayne-Powell/Tieche route. Whilst stunning to look at, the body is "substantially built", so you can see why so few were sold, the extra weight meant that a std bodied car would easily show it a clean pair of heals.
The J0515 chassis went to Nigel Musselwhite, axles & other bits into the Hawke spares bin.
JH
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