About Tough to crack car puzzle #156: Peerless GT + Peewick

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Many answers on last week’s car puzzle and the majority of them was right, too. Very well. But still this was a tough one after all, or so it seems. We’ll explain. The car on the photograph was the Peerless GT. Most of you knew that. And most of you also knew it was closely related to the Warwick GT. So far so good. But then we asked about a third incarnation, and that’s when most of you went wrong: Michael Robinson, John Jarrett, Fried Stol, Paul Czajka, Bert Tressel, Tobias Wenzel, Steve Kupferman, John Krabbendam, Mark Dawber and Don Siemers: sorry - the Gordon GT prototype and later Gordon-Keeble production car were not the variants we were after. These really are cars on their own. And even the car that followed the Gordon-Keeble was not the one we meant, Don Siemers! Don wrote: “That makes three brands for the same car. But wait, there's more! In 1968 John De Bruyne attempted to revive the car. Two cars appeared at the 1968 New York Auto Show. One was powered and the other was static.” Douze points for that, but it’s still not what we needed here!

But fortunately there was 1 (one!) of you who did know exactly what we were talking about. Congratulations Celia Stevens, for cracking this tough to crack car puzzle. Celia wrote: “It is a 1959 Peerless GT Phase Two. There is also a Peerless GT Phase One (1958/59.) Made in Slough by Bernie Rodger and his crew. From that came the Warwick GT which was the 3rd variation after Peerless went bust. Indeed there was a 4th, a Warwick GT350 of which very few were made. (still not the one we meant but she’s getting there-Ed…) Then there were a couple of other variants after that, MFI (the furniture people) built about 10 when they bought old stock. And as late as 1964 Chris Lawrence built a few and there were some manufactured in Ireland. (Very few!).” Excellent, Celia. As a matter of fact we did not know about the MFI-variant and also not about the Irish built cars ourselves! However, we do know about the new old stock Chris Lawrence-built version, which came with a new tubular space frame chassis using a 4-inches shorter wheelbase and used the best bits of the Warwick and the Peerless to form a car named Peewick (Warless would have sounded just a bit too odd, we think). It’s good to learn something every day, isn’t it?

(Words and photographs Jeroen Booij)

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