Yet another What Car

[CanAm]

This featured on a local Facebook page, and all they discussed was the building (Woolton Hall, Liverpool) with not a single mention of the car.

It's before my time, allegedly taken in the 1920s, so are there any Edwardian/Vintage specialists around who can shed a light on this?

[nicanary]

There weren't many venues in the UK which would suit such a car. My guess is, from the location, it would have raced on Southport sands. The rudimentary mudguards would indicate that also. (Sand and water spraying up). Under that fancy bodywork could lie something quite prosaic - it was common practice to hide a low-powered basic family car under sporting bodywork.

[tapkaJohnD]

Percy Lambert's Talbot?
https://www.geocities.ws/kelada2000/brooklands/lam...

Google Image search assisted!

[Super Sonic]

Old Civic type R

[Bobupndown]

nicanary said:

- it was common practice to hide a low-powered basic family car under sporting bodywork.

Or to add a ridiculously powerful aero engine. These early pioneers of motor sport were really brave, or really crazy.

[Turbobanana]

Front end looks like it comes from a Napier L48, but the exhausts exit on the wrong side for that to be the power source:

[JuniorD]

Super Sonic said:

Old Civic type R