With that one I’d have a guess at an early Honda or perhaps a piper. Ozziedog',,,,,,,, nice blue tooooo.
Not in the slightest, it's been on lots of forums without resoloution and I thought it might be nice to offer it up to the knowledgable folk of this fair Parish.
I like those old RT busses too. I remember their last day of service walking up Barnet Hill from primary school. I think it was about 1979. Perhaps?
I know there are some details that would challenge this (the trailing edge of the door, and the sides of the windscreen for example ... which looks more like a purloined rear screen ...) but maybe someone messed about with a mk 1 sunbeam alpine?
I used to go to school on an East Kent bus like that - around '74 or '75 ish. Occasionally they would grind to a halt on a steep hill out of Whitstable going towards Canterbury. Something about the headlights and the angle of the shroud says its ancestry might be a Ford Anglia with a body kit, if somebody is guessing the blue car ..
I've convinced myself that this is a one off special body by one of the London coachbuilders in the late 1950s and early 1960s, but I don't know what the chassis, or base unit, is. The C pillar with the vent is just like the alloy bodied Elan that Williams and Pritchard of Edmonton made in 1964/65 for a Swiss gentleman called Hermann Huber. However, a very similar C pillar vent appeared on the 1966 WSM 3000 and the 1964 Sheen Imperator GTS built by Peel Coachworks of Kingston on Thames. The styling of the car in the photo is a bit earlier: the wrap around screen and dog leg A pillars are bang on trend for 1955, but the smoother rear wing fins are later, maybe 1957 for a concept car and 1959 for a production car - the Anglia in the photo and the Sunbeam Alpine were both launched in 1959 with a similar rear wing profile. But,..... the wheelbase is very short, too short for a special bodied Alpine. In my opinion, the car is too well styled and put together for a cheap fibreglass rebody of an E93A Anglia. It would have cost a great deal to get a company like Williams and Pritchard or Peel to build an all alloy body so it was either something built by one of their staff in their own time, or a car commissioned by a wealthy enthusiast who thought they might sell a few, or a show piece made to demonstrate what could be done to build a coupe on a new small sports car. The styling is too early for a Triumph Spitfire, so my guess is it's a one off alloy bodied Austin Healey Sprite, with absolutely no evidence to back it up.
