Cars, Lasses and Lads - A Photo Sharing Thread

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14 hours ago, The Old Bloke Next Door said:

I think that car is a Triumph Super Seven. Seriously rare little car; only eleven surviving in the UK.

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Any idea what the car is?

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22 minutes ago, martc said:

Any idea what the car is?

Austin 10, 1934/35.

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5 hours ago, Blunderguts said:

I think that car is a Triumph Super Seven. Seriously rare little car; only eleven surviving in the UK.

After a little research, that's a Triumph Scorpion. The Super Seven was four cylinder 832cc and 747cc and the Scorpion was six cylinder 1203cc.

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4 hours ago, martc said:

Ey, alrights, come 'ed! 

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1 hour ago, colnerov said:

After a little research, that's a Triumph Scorpion. The Super Seven was four cylinder 832cc and 747cc and the Scorpion was six cylinder 1203cc.

Normally more cylinders means more power. In this case it was the opposite. These were slower than the four cylinder cars!

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40 minutes ago, Blunderguts said:

Normally more cylinders means more power. In this case it was the opposite. These were slower than the four cylinder cars!

 

 Apparently there was a trend for 6 cylinder cars at the time, but they kept the power down to keep it in 8hp RAC rating for taxation purposes. Some of the four cylinder engines were supercharged on the smaller capacity ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_Super_7

 https://www.pre-1940triumphmotorclub.org/scorpion-twelve-six-new/