Mistaken Identity or Unknown Prototype?

loki_the_glt · Jan 29th, 2023, 15:08

The current issue of a classic car mag (to save it's blushes I won't name it) has a reader's car item on a 1973 240 Auto Estate it describes as the earliest known example.

Well, possibly it is, but the accompanying photograph shows an L-reg estate with the large wrap-around front indicators, bumper and quarter-light equipped front doors of a 140.

Lancee · Jan 29th, 2023, 16:52

Looks more like a Vauxhall ! Or is that your profile picture ?

loki_the_glt · Jan 29th, 2023, 17:49

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Originally Posted by Lancee

Looks more like a Vauxhall ! Or is that your profile picture ?

Perhaps I should have been more concise in my original post. The photograph in the article showed an L-reg estate as described in the original post.

My profile picture is indeed of a Vauxhall, specifically a Garnet Starmist Victor 2300SL saloon.

Bob 1967 · Jan 29th, 2023, 18:24

If it's RHD it wouldn't be a prototype.
Haven't seen it so idk.

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loki_the_glt Torquemeister Last Online: May 19th, 2024 17:26 Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Asgard, Cheshire	Mistaken Identity or Unknown Prototype? The current issue of a classic car mag (to save it's blushes I won't name it) has a reader's car item on a 1973 240 Auto Estate it describes as the earliest known example. Well, possibly it is, but the accompanying photograph shows an L-reg estate with the large wrap-around front indicators, bumper and quarter-light equipped front doors of a 140. __________________ loki_the_glt - Skipper of the Exxon Valdez, driver of Sweden's finest sporting saloon - and pining for another Slant-4.

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Bob 1967 Master Member Last Online: May 22nd, 2024 09:17 Join Date: Aug 2017 Location: Dublin View Photos By: Bob 1967	If it's RHD it wouldn't be a prototype. Haven't seen it so idk. __________________ Cowboy used to be a trade , now it means lack of one.

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Lancee Premier Member Last Online: Today 13:20 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Devon	Looks more like a Vauxhall ! Or is that your profile picture ?

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