Rapier or Sceptre?

[lemansvk]

Anyone know anything about this car?

http://good-times.webshots.com/album/561736172YLKzYN

Humber Scepter Mk 1 body, but badged as a Sunbeam Rapier. LHD with metric speedo, suggesting European. Not a Sceptre dash, much more like an Audax Rapier.

Of course, the Scepter was originally planned as a replacement for the Audax Rapier (and was even going to take the name) until a last minute decision to keep building the Audax Rapier and call the new one a Humber.

Suggestions so far are for a prototype ore pre-production car, possibly for display in Europe.

 

[sunbeamowner]

I would say Humber Sceptre. Rapiers were Two door vehicles untill at least 1977

 

[alpine_64]

the interesting thing is the speedo is the later style post 65 with the smaller font, the tacho is the early style pre 1965.. so perhaps the speedo was a later addition. IIRC there is a book that showed the scepter being examined as a rapier replacent, had the grill and badging... might be the robson book.

 

[moonstone SIV]

One of the most stylish and un-Rooteslike features of the pre Arrow series Humber Sceptres is the facia design, which bears an uncanny resemblance to that in a 1959 Chev.

Why this tragic example seems to have received a transplant from a series V Rapier is anyone's guess. And once again the horn ring is MISSING...... (sigh).