Interesting, thank you! I'm building a Riley Brooklands replica. The fact that no two originals seem to be the same body wise makes my job so much easier! Given they were cars used for sporting/racing things replacement bodies probably wasn't unusual. Some cars had very hard lives based on period photos.
Note that the 3rd body known to be worn by the car featured is quite recent; it's regd. as a 1930 car but the centre-lock hubs and wheels (for riley road cars at least) are 1934 onward spec. The windscreen is not a riley product. and it's feasible it was acquired then the (new) scuttle created to accommodate it's specific shape. Your Kiwi car is much closer body-wise to a 1930 bodystyle, but in all fairness to the owner/driver of the car featured here, it would be counter productive to have ripped off a solid 'looky-likey' body in favour of creating an accurate replica body...unless the former was falling to bits. Keep up the good work.
@@thephilpott2194 Mine will always be a special/replica which is fine. So I 'tweaked' the body shape to personal preference (and what I think I can actually build and have it work out OK). That's still a proper Brooklands regardless of the body on it. If I ever actually get to see a real on in the flesh I'll be all over it geeking out over the tiny details I think.
My late father owned this car in the 50s. He regularly drove it to work in central Birmingham!
Interesting, thank you! I'm building a Riley Brooklands replica. The fact that no two originals seem to be the same body wise makes my job so much easier! Given they were cars used for sporting/racing things replacement bodies probably wasn't unusual. Some cars had very hard lives based on period photos.
Note that the 3rd body known to be worn by the car featured is quite recent; it's regd. as a 1930 car but the centre-lock hubs and wheels (for riley road cars at least) are 1934 onward spec. The windscreen is not a riley product. and it's feasible it was acquired then the (new) scuttle created to accommodate it's specific shape.
Your Kiwi car is much closer body-wise to a 1930 bodystyle, but in all fairness to the owner/driver of the car featured here, it would be counter productive to have ripped off a solid 'looky-likey' body in favour of creating an accurate replica body...unless the former was falling to bits.
Keep up the good work.
@@thephilpott2194 Mine will always be a special/replica which is fine. So I 'tweaked' the body shape to personal preference (and what I think I can actually build and have it work out OK). That's still a proper Brooklands regardless of the body on it. If I ever actually get to see a real on in the flesh I'll be all over it geeking out over the tiny details I think.