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Posted by: jhadler Oct 1 2008, 12:53 PM

A fellow on the local autox forum posted a mystery car question, and I knew that this would be the right group of folks to figure it out...

http://s263.photobucket.com/albums/ii127/GingerGSR/Misc%20RMSOLO/Mystery%20Car/

Any thoughts?

-Josh2

Posted by: Jeffs9146 Oct 1 2008, 12:58 PM

custom built!

We would need to see the drive train to make a "powered by" judgment!

Posted by: the4u2 Oct 1 2008, 01:13 PM

it is a old kit car around late 60's or 70's
good luck on find it's name looks Cool

Posted by: mikez Oct 1 2008, 01:59 PM

Looks like something Herr Hitler would have turned into a bomber....


Or it's a Jaguar copy...

Posted by: Vacca Rabite Oct 1 2008, 02:10 PM

my guess was a Jag copy as well. Whatever it is, its a kit.

Zach

Posted by: So.Cal.914 Oct 1 2008, 02:20 PM

It looks like something you would run at Bonneville.

Posted by: Mark Henry Oct 1 2008, 02:23 PM

Buzz-bomb

Posted by: 914Sixer Oct 1 2008, 02:38 PM

Looks like a modified OPEL GT from 69-73.

Posted by: turboman808 Oct 1 2008, 03:29 PM

I have to say it reminds me of a maserati tipo 61 only it's a single seater.

Posted by: So.Cal.914 Oct 1 2008, 03:44 PM

It just looks like, with the tall skinny tires, suspension that does not look like it would corner very well and the style of body, that it would be for the salt flats.
But in the 60's skinny tires were in so it could be anything.

Posted by: ws91420 Oct 1 2008, 05:07 PM

Ferarri replica ?

Posted by: Twystd1 Oct 1 2008, 07:24 PM

It is very close to a Reventlow Scarab or a Lister Jag... But not quite.

Me thinks it's a salt car.......

C

Posted by: mikez Oct 1 2008, 07:43 PM

Hey look who's slumming....

I think it's a BAD Batman (Movie not the series) replica....


Reventlow Scarab below....

Posted by: kwales Oct 1 2008, 07:54 PM

It's not a kit.

Aluminum bodies are WAY too expensive and time consuming to make.

Ken

Posted by: ws91420 Oct 1 2008, 08:15 PM

Looks like a Ferrari 250 TR late 50's

Posted by: sean_v8_914 Oct 1 2008, 11:03 PM

early lister vette

Posted by: Dave_Darling Oct 2 2008, 12:58 AM

Transverse leaf spring front suspension? Let's see.... Vettes have used it, but so did other cars. I'm thinking it's a "special" based on more standard British mechanicals. Didn't the Spridgets also have transverse leaf-spring fronts? Or was it the MGB that had that?

--DD

Posted by: Mugs914 Oct 2 2008, 01:43 AM

Chassis kinda looks like one of those 50s era Cooper (750?) formula cars with sports racer bodywork added. They used transverse leaf springs up front and JAP, Triumph, BSA, etc. motors out back.

Also looks ike something Speed Racer would have knocked over a cliff in the old cartoon...

Posted by: Wes V Oct 2 2008, 09:56 AM

I've just got a couple thoughts;

Aluminum body rules it out as a "kit" (as already said).

The idea of it being a "land speed" custom also came into my mind, but would you bother making up the headlight buckets?

The finned (front) drum brakes look european, not domestic.

I wonder why no photos were taken, or posted, that show the engine compartment?!?!?!?!

Regardless of what the original owner was thinking, he (or she) put a lot of money in having the body done.

Wes