<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Larry,<br><br></div>I spoke with John Wheatley about this car very at the Lake Tahoe meet back in 2002. This was the prototype and the only body built by Tickfords, versus all subsequent cars that were built by Jensen. Thus the rarest of the rare car being the first, a one off car built by Tickfords, the car that started the legend, and unfortunately according to John, scraped many years ago. Very sad indeed that no one saw to save this piece of automotive history.<br><br></div><div>The oldest known surviving 100 is AHX-3 owned by a member of our Concours Committee.<br></div><div><br></div>Cheers,<br><br></div>Curt<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 1:03 AM, Larry Varley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:varley@cosmos.net.au" target="_blank">varley@cosmos.net.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Its interesting to note that there does not appear to be front
shroud supports at the front of the chassis rails in the right hand
photo. The car is purported to be<b> </b>Chassis number J4001<b> </b>
Is anything known of what happened to this car and the other
prototypes?? If you look at the following page on my website you
will also see the very early chassis design part way down the page
with some explanation of the prototype sequence.<br>
<a href="http://www.acmefluid.com.au/larry/45.html" target="_blank">http://www.acmefluid.com.au/larry/45.html</a><br>
Clearly there were prototype chassis designs before production
began, it would be very interesting to know more history.<br>
Regards<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Larry Varley<br>
<a href="http://www.acmefluid.com.au/larry/" target="_blank">http://www.acmefluid.com.au/larry/</a><br>
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