Name the car..

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Dubs, Aug 8, 2021.

  1. vinnyboy

    vinnyboy Supporter

    Has anyone noticed it has gull wing doors ??
    It does seem to have caused a lot of interest on many forums.
     
  2. It’s already been answered
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  3. What's the answer?
     
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  4. Meltman

    Meltman Sprout Lover

    Put them out of their misery :)
     
  5. I don't know what it is.
     
  6. Insomnia + reverse image search =
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  7. docjohn

    docjohn Supporter

    I'm very likely to be wrong, but I think that is a rendered 3D virtual model. It's very well done by someone with enormous talent. The TS4 thing again, is a bit of an internet myth. But, as I said, I am probably completely wrong :)
     
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  8. That's the best solution I've seen yet, thank you.
     
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  9. There's a 120 page thread on Pistonheads, what makes you think we stand a cat-in-hells chance?
     
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  10. docjohn

    docjohn Supporter

    I'd like the car in the original photograph to be real, it would have been a big task to insert it by some sort of photo montage, and to what effect?
    I've discarded the Austin Healey Sprite hypothesis largely because the sills are too deep. I can't imagine a coachbuilder deliberately raising the height of the sills especially as they had put a roof on it that was strong enough to take the loads from the doors. If it was a standard Ford 10/E93A/Austin 7 chassis it would be again been odd to put such deep sills on it and have tiny doors hinged from the roof. I'm much more inclined to think that it is a purpose built chassis by someone like Buckler. Derek Buckler made tube frame chassis for just about everyone in the 1950s and early 60s, in a variety of wheelbase lengths. The frames were characterised by the deep side sections, rather like the current Westfields and Caterhams.
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    Contemporary cars with gullwing doors, such as the Mercedes 300SLR, the rather odd Marcos Xylon and its successor, the slightly less odd Marcos Luton Gullwing,
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    all had very deep and wide sill boxes and the doors allowed taller drivers to get in and out; Jem Marsh, by all accounts, was quite a tall chap.
    So, we shall probably never know what it is, but it's fun speculating.
     
  11. ginger ninja

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  13. Chrisd

    Chrisd Supporter

    Any easy one to identify along with a guess where I am all in one...:)
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  14. docjohn

    docjohn Supporter

    Didn't somebody already identify this as the VW W12 Syncro concept from 1997?
     
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  16. docjohn

    docjohn Supporter

    Bedford OB in Malta? Got to be warmer than Derbyshire :)
     
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  17. Faust

    Faust Supporter

    When i was there 6 years back ...there was an old chap who was still driving a Bedford ex ww2 army truck carrying all sorts had a big Union Jack painted on his front grill . I will have to have a delv and find the pic i took of it .
     
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  18. Ittiz not neses sarri to ave tha four wheelnuts when we make tha latter one :D
     
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  19. Chrisd

    Chrisd Supporter

    That's the one and the place. They only use them as tourist special buses now as they have moved over to more modern buses. I lived here (Malta) in the 70s and I miss all the colours, each route had its on colour....and character!

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