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...

Mystery Car

Any thoughts?

-Josh2

custom built!

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

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

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


Or it's a Jaguar copy...

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

Zach

It looks like something you would run at Bonneville.

Buzz-bomb

Looks like a modified OPEL GT from 69-73.

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

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.


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Ferarri replica ?

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

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

C

Hey look who's slumming....

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


Reventlow Scarab below....

It's not a kit.

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

Ken

Looks like a Ferrari 250 TR late 50's

early lister vette

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

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...

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