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Motors Guess the car

Discussion in 'General' started by lex90, 31 Jan 2009.

  1. Double Mac

    Double Mac Outdoor Miner

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    Good job, alastor. Please, continue. :)
     
  2. Teelzebub

    Teelzebub Up yours GOD,Whats best served cold

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    could it be the Renault 17 gordini
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  3. alastor

    alastor Minimodder

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  4. sesterfield

    sesterfield What's a Dremel?

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    Reliant Scimitar?
     
  5. Captain Haddock

    Captain Haddock Blistering Barnacles

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    I don't think so; there are a couple of things that seem wrong to me for it to be a Scimitar :-
    • The B-pillar seems much too small.
    • AFAIR the Scimitars didn't have opening rear side windows and you can clearly see the catch on R/H one.
     
  6. PureSilver

    PureSilver E-tailer Tailor

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    Shooting brake? Looks almost like John Dodd's Beast :hehe:
     
  7. alastor

    alastor Minimodder

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    More than half the length and you're not far off :lol:

    It's also smaller and more foreign than a Scimitar...
     
  8. Teelzebub

    Teelzebub Up yours GOD,Whats best served cold

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    Just for interest I found this
    "In the 1960s John Dodd of Kent, England put a Merlin engine (some say it actually was a Rover Meteor tank engine, but then this is a Merlin minus superchargers) in a car called "The Beast". Originally it had a grille from a Rolls Royce, but after complaints from them he had to change it. According to himself he once drove by a Porsche driver on the autobahn and this person then called Rolls Royce asking about their "new model". The Beast was once listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's most powerful road car. The engine came from a Boulton Paul Balliol training aircraft and gave 1262 bhp (941 kW) at 8500 feet (2,600 m). In the car the supercharger was removed so it "only" gave about 850 bhp (630 kW). The chassis was custom made with a fibreglass body and used a gearbox from a GM 400. The car was later restored by John Dodd's son Paul Dodd and he also has a 2050 bhp (1530 kW) twin-supercharged Rolls-Royce Griffon 37 litre engine from a late-model Spitfire he is willing to put in a car if somebody would be interested in buying it
     
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  9. Xir

    Xir Modder

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    Doh! I looked through all alpine and matra's and didn't look at the renault 17 coupe... Grrr
     
  10. Captain Haddock

    Captain Haddock Blistering Barnacles

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    Stab in the northern dark, Volvo P1900ES ?
     
  11. alastor

    alastor Minimodder

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    Nope, bit less northern. Have a bit more:

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  12. oasked

    oasked Stuck in (better) mud

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    Some kind of Jenson?
     
  13. alastor

    alastor Minimodder

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    Noooope much less exotic. Not that a Jensen is overly exotic :lol:
     
  14. deaglecat

    deaglecat What's a Dremel?

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    Datsun Cherry (estate) ?
     
  15. alastor

    alastor Minimodder

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    Pretty much: Datsun F10, presumably the estate version.

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  16. Teelzebub

    Teelzebub Up yours GOD,Whats best served cold

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    Just a quick one
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  17. Xir

    Xir Modder

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    NSU Ro80
     
  18. Teelzebub

    Teelzebub Up yours GOD,Whats best served cold

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    Yep said just a quick one , They were a right flop we used to put ford V4 engine's in them.
     
  19. Xir

    Xir Modder

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    Argh!
    Classic rotary engine and you put V4's in them? :duh: *howlsatmoon*
     
  20. Teelzebub

    Teelzebub Up yours GOD,Whats best served cold

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    here's a interesting one
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