This?
I knew it was a Riley.
But I had to ask the cheerful gentlemen sitting inside what sort.
It is a 1952 Riley MRE.
Riley was a real company until it was swallowed(like most of the rest) by Austin-Morris(BMC) in that tragic orgy of Marxist obeisance in the sixties.
It went from building real cars like this to being a badge on the front of a bastardised Mini in the early sixties, designed to appeal to snob value.
It didn't work then(with the Riley 'Elf'), just as calling all the rump companies 'Rover', didn't work; they have all disappeared too.
For now at least.
Anyway, doesn't Nero Wolfe ride in one of these on TV?
Or is that a Daimler?(British Daimler, not Daimler-Benz).
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