Let's play Name That Car

Post by **matthew1** » 05 Dec 2025, 10:44

Post by **abscate** » 08 Dec 2025, 16:45

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_%26 ... DustBuster

Post by **Blacklab467** » 08 Dec 2025, 17:07

I remember seeing one of these at Expo ‘86 in Vancouver before it was in production and it seemed to futuristic to be true. It’s a Pontiac Transport, Chevy’s sister ship was a Lumina Van. The year would be 1987 or 88.

Jaydiesel · Post by **Jaydiesel** » 08 Dec 2025, 20:30

I just saw a White Transport last week, when I was traveling for Thanksgiving. It was in Tennessee. Growing up we called them "Dusterbusters"

Post by **abscate** » 09 Dec 2025, 15:18

Transort, Lumina, Previa - then all eclipsed in ugliness by the....

Aztec

Just when you thought it couldnt get worse...

CyberDumpster

Post by **BlackBart** » 09 Dec 2025, 15:44

Post by **scot850** » 09 Dec 2025, 19:32

Convertible is a late 1940's Healey Westland and the coupe a late 1940's Healey Elliott Sport

Neil.

Post by **abscate** » 09 Dec 2025, 20:07

We cant have Healeys and Aztec on the same thread page - we are talking serious rips in the Space-Time Continuum

Post by **BlackBart** » 10 Dec 2025, 09:03

The judges have awarded the prize to our Britcar wizard Neil.

Healey’s (pre-Austin-). These were works entries for the 1948 Mille Miglia race in Italy. The very green coupe is a 1947 Healey Westland B with a Riley 2.4 iron block four cylinder. It was Count Giovanni “Johnny” Lurani’s car. He and his co-driver broke the rear suspension panhard rod but continued, winning the Touring class.

The silver-green convertible is a ‘48 Westland Tourer (essentially an Elliot with the roof cut off), driven in the MM by Healey himself, with his son Geoffrey navigating. They came in 9th overall and 2nd in the “unlimited-capacity sports car” class despite losing their lights. In 1949, it won the Touring class, 2 minutes ahead of the 2nd place Alfa Romeo after 1000 miles.

Westland was an aircraft manufacturer and was happy to have the contract work after the war.
Elliot was a Reading-based furniture manufacturer, which produced the ash body frames. Healey got a better deal by including their names. The bodies were aluminium as steel was still rationed and aluminum was plentiful.

In this Octane magazine article from 2016, they were being prepped for that years’ MM reenactment tour.

Post by **scot850** » 10 Dec 2025, 14:53

Westland products since WWII:

https://www.historichelicopters.com/our-helicopters/

Neil.

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