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hey Pete,
love-it, learn something new every day. so they actually painted the clay models??? wow!!

This one's a bit odd in that most clay models didn't have glass, though I can't see them building a car with different A pillar profiles like this one from steel

MeFB wrote:

Cal wrote:By the look of it it's a clay model, judging by the different profile A pillars from left to right.

Ahhh...didn't think of that. I guess it would be too...

Wouldn't it be cool if it was in steel though, and actually popped-up in some old cocky's barn...Got sumpthin under in tha ole sheerin-shed ya moit loik young fella-me-lad...

If it was Steve would be chasing it!

could also be blue, green silver does have a metalic look to the paint, i've seen clay models before and once painted etc are very lifelike

Cal wrote:The clay models looked quite "real" when they were painted.

Plus it would be hard to drive with no interior (let alone no steering wheel)

And no diff, fuel tank, exhaust, front suspension...etc...etc...etc... Yep, I'm going with clay

Mind you, the EK's I've owned in the past had panels mostly made out of bog, so I guess they were pretty close to driving around in a clay model

heres an interesting article from motor mag, Dated Feb 1960, the top right pix was shot in Aug - 1959, & states its a prototype... it still has the indent on the top of doors, so does the illustration & Im pretty sure so does the wagon on left page????? zoom in to see

interesting ????

makes u wonder when they decided not to do it???

samprinci wrote:heres an interesting article from motor mag, Dated Feb 1960, the top right pix was shot in Aug - 1959, & states its a prototype... it still has the indent on the top of doors, so does the illustration & Im pretty sure so does the wagon on left page????? zoom in to see

interesting ????

makes u wonder when they decided not to do it???

Um...doesn't every FB/EK have doors like that?

MeFB wrote:

samprinci wrote:heres an interesting article from motor mag, Dated Feb 1960, the top right pix was shot in Aug - 1959, & states its a prototype... it still has the indent on the top of doors, so does the illustration & Im pretty sure so does the wagon on left page????? zoom in to see

interesting ????

makes u wonder when they decided not to do it???

Um...doesn't every FB/EK have doors like that?

every one i've owned or seen does

samprinci wrote: makes u wonder when they decided not to do it???

EJ

Look how low the standard sedan is .... Brochure Hight !

So do we now go from chasing LHD cars to chasing prototypes.. Oh bugger it, why not...

I was told by a GMH man they were supposed to crush the
prototypes but the 48/215 and FJ are still around....

So is the Premier prototype. Saw it a couple of weeks ago in NSW (the Jackson's collection). It's a very, very interesting car.

WayneXG95 wrote:So do we now go from chasing LHD cars to chasing prototypes.. Oh bugger it, why not...

I was told by a GMH man they were supposed to crush the
prototypes but the 48/215 and FJ are still around....

Some of them are

I think if GMH knew how much drama all these prototypes were causing 60 odd years later, they'd have crushed the whole lot

WayneXG95 wrote:
I was told by a GMH man they were supposed to crush the
prototypes but the 48/215 and FJ are still around....

And the FB................................



GP

GreyPride wrote:

WayneXG95 wrote:
I was told by a GMH man they were supposed to crush the
prototypes but the 48/215 and FJ are still around....

And the FB................................



GP

Yeah, yeah, yeah...FB, the well known prototype for the EK