The Numbers Game

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AMGSee55

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Porsche Type 64


AMGSee55

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Chinese Light Tank Type 65


AMGSee55

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OK, I’m probably stretching the rules now biggrin


Turbobanana

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202 months

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Ferrari 312 F1-67



Sadly best known as the car in which Lorenzo Bandini died in Monaco.

Stick Legs

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166 months

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1968 Oldsmobile 442.
This entire body style was referred to as the ‘Olds 68’ .


Turbobanana

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The number 69 car in NASCAR:



It has a chequered history all of its own, and is the second least used number in NASCAR (after #65), not least because sponsors are reluctant to be associated with its sexual reference.

Read about it here

Back on an even keel, Ford GT70.


gt40steve

709 posts

105 months

Wednesday 17th January
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The mighty Club Cadet 71.

moffspeed

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An unusual colour scheme - a yellow Lotus 72 as entered by Herbie Muller in the Italian GP at Monza in 1971. It didn’t get to race..


moffspeed

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..and the obscure Lotus 73 F3 car - basically a scaled-down 72. Pictured in conventional form (pretty) and also in stubby inboard-wing 1972 Monaco spec (not so pretty)…





Tony Trimmer at the wheel. He won Monaco F3 in a Brabham in 1970 and piloted the JPS to runner-up spot in 1972. Patrick Depailler was the winner that year, F3 was savagely competitive in those days - James Hunt and Tony Brise didn’t even make it out of the qualifying heats…

Edited by moffspeed on Wednesday 17th January 09:09

Turbobanana

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I was going to go with the Mitsubishi Type 73 Light Truck



but the Lotus is prettier (at least the non-Monaco spec one is).

thegreenhell

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220 months

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Hyundai N Vision 74 concept car


thegreenhell

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gt40steve

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Another Leyland flop, the P-76.

WPA

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Aston Martin One-77


Turbobanana

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Beat me to it, but I'll post anyway: Tatra 77


moffspeed

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Tatra T77 :




ETA - oops double beaten to it...

Turbobanana

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Ford Model 78


thegreenhell

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Porsche 935/78 'Moby Dick'


Turbobanana

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thegreenhell said:
Porsche 935/78 'Moby Dick'

Damn, forgot about that. Was at the Le Mans Museum back in summer, too.

Turbobanana

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You choose:



I have vague recollections that Lotus lost the leather-bound type numbers book for a while, leading to duplications such as Type 79 referring both to the original Esprit and the successful F1 car.

Also, Ford Cortina 80