What is this car?

[Mary Lindsay]

Can anyone identify this car? The venue is the Brackenhurst hillclimb in Kenya, probably in the late 1950s or early 1960s.

[TonyLees]

Bond?

[Bob Bull]

No idea Mary, but I am carrying out some research into the picture.

Saga Noren.

[Bob Bull]

Bond?

Did you mean Berkely?

[Mary Lindsay]

No idea Mary, but I am carrying out some research into the picture.

Thank you Saga.....

[colin sumner]

morris 1000 front wings don't know about the rest

[Bob Bull]

morris 1000 front wings don't know about the rest

Well spotted Colin, the look of the side panels suggests homemade, but linked to a production rear end of some sort, while he bonnet is almost certainly from some other production car. All in all Mary I reckon it is a 'one-off' but it would be nice to track down the type of chassis. The reference number on the photo also indicates it comes form some official library (stick it in Google and get a map of Mombasa). More information from your source might help track it down MQC.

Saga

[Bob Bull]

http://bucklercars.com/cjk132-built-in- ... ming-home/

[Bob Bull]

Mary the picture was probably taken at the Brackenhurst Hill climb near Nairobi in the mid fifties, may be your source can find out more.

[Mary Lindsay]

Wow Bob, many thanks for your clever detective work!

We will get in touch with the Buckler register to see what else we can learn from them.

[Bob Bull]

Mary the picture was probably taken at the Brackenhurst Hill climb near Nairobi in the mid fifties, may be your source can find out more.

Oops! You already told us that!

[Bob Bull]

The number plate indicates that the car was first registered in 1956 in the Nairobi district of Kenya, and I have been advised that the car never raced at Nakuru circuit.

[Bob Bull]

Mary a Google search says the Brackenhurst Hill Climb ran between 1959 and 1963.

[Mary Lindsay]

Thanks Bob!