A prolific designer.
Chris Humberstone was a versatile designer with many innovative designs in car categories ranging from Mini kits, low volume specialist such as Owen Sedanca and onwards to Group C racing.Chris Humberstone was capable of creating cars from the functional to the crazy.
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Scorpion Sovereign 616M – 616MS – 620M
With Triumph Vitesse drivetrain and a Williams & Pritchard body the car looked great. In my opinion. Tragically, it was […]
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Mini Scorpion
The inspiration for the Mini Scorpion came from Chris Humberstone (CH) seeing a Broadspeed Mini. This vehicle had a normal […]
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Scorpion Saluki – Early version?
Not looking much, as far as I can see, the 1971 H R Owen Saluki this Saluki was displayed as […]
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Scorpion Car Company Quartette
The Chris Humberstone designed Scorpion Car Company Quartette was displayed as a model at the Earl’s Court Motor Show in […]
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Humberstone Sports 408 – Hillman Imp based kit
The date given in the timeline is a guess based on the mention of the Humberstone Quartette that was displayed […]
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Scorpion Savannah
Dated from reference to Savannah in 408 Imp leaflet that also mentions the Quartette being on the IBCAM stand at […]
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H R Owen – Saluki proposal
Chris Humberstone worked for H R Owen, a prestige car garage, as a salesman briefly during 1971. He proposed the […]
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Owen Sedanca
In Chris Humberstone’s own words, he was asked to join H R Owen to sort out problems with a Rover […]
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Triplex Ten Twenty Special
Presented at the London Motor Show in 76 and again at the 77th Geneva Motor Show, Ten Twenty was a […]
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Humberstone Midi
Exhibited at the 1977 Motorfair. In Chris Humberstone’s own words the car was “actually just a mock-up that I did […]
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Chris Humberstone Design exhibit at Earls Court Motorfair
Chris Humberstone Design Ltd exhibited a number of vehicles including a modified Range Rover, Triplex 10-20 Special, Dee Type Replica […]
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Chris Humberstone Design brochure c1978
Undated brochure, but probably from 1978 as spans period from when the Humberstone Midi was shown and Humberstone Design morphing […]
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Hermes APV
Most of information is from a Chris Humberstone (CH) interview by Giles Chapman (GC) for Classic and Sportscar in September […]
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3001 – A Space Oddity
Created by Chris Humberstone Design and featured in Street Machine – July 1979.
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Cartel TIGER
The Cartel TIGER. TIGER is an acronym for Turbo Inter-cooled Ground Effect Roadster. Described in Classic and Sportscar “as a […]
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Jaguar XJ40 XJ6 Estate
Created circa 1988.