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Justayellowbadge
29,479 posts
111 months
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Still going with Fiore. If there are Triumph oily bits, that would fit too. 
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Flying Toilet
2,890 posts
80 months
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If it's from the 70's and based near Rushden then it maybe a Kit Car with a one off body.
A old drag racing team called Fibreglass Repairs used to have a unit in Poddington and did some crazy fibreglass bodies in the 70's for various projects including John Dodd's Beast if any of you remember that?
Dan
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marshalla
8,038 posts
70 months
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Flying Toilet said: If it's from the 70's and based near Rushden then it maybe a Kit Car with a one off body.
A old drag racing team called Fibreglass Repairs used to have a unit in Poddington and did some crazy fibreglass bodies in the 70's for various projects including John Dodd's Beast if any of you remember that?
Dan The Beast Mk1 (before the Rolls Royce lawsuit)  Images are hard to come by, but there are definitely some similarities around the rear quarters in particular. Maybe this mystery car is an unfinished Paul Jameson project ?
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Justayellowbadge
29,479 posts
111 months
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Beast body design was originally based upon that of a Capri, I beleive.
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16VJay
145 posts
88 months
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hidetheelephants said: 16VJay said: Doing as LeoZwalf suggests and playing around with the contrast/brightness on the enlarged version posted earlier, I'm pretty sure you can see a Triumph trunnion/upright assembly. You can make out the trunnion and it's seal quite well.
So the front suspension is Herald/Spitfire/TR/Scimitar depending on the size of the thing. Looking at the headlamps, if they are 5 3/4 inch units, I reckon the car's small enough for it to be a Herald/Spitfire front end. If that's true I'll be bloody amazed; all you can see is that it has suspension, with a blurry trackrod end. When you've worked on as many of those set-ups as I have, you get pretty familiar with how they look! 
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Crusoe
2,649 posts
100 months
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marshalla said: The Beast Mk1 (before the Rolls Royce lawsuit) Images are hard to come by, but there are definitely some similarities around the rear quarters in particular. Maybe this mystery car is an unfinished Paul Jameson project ? Was in Evo not that long ago, similar but different enough not to be the one shown IMO. http://www.evo.co.uk/features/features/228789/the_... 
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Justayellowbadge
29,479 posts
111 months
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Crusoe said: marshalla said: The Beast Mk1 (before the Rolls Royce lawsuit) Images are hard to come by, but there are definitely some similarities around the rear quarters in particular. Maybe this mystery car is an unfinished Paul Jameson project ? Was in Evo not that long ago, similar but different enough not to be the one shown IMO. http://www.evo.co.uk/features/features/228789/the_... First body caught fire. Those are the same car a few years apart.
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Crusoe
2,649 posts
100 months
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Justayellowbadge said: First body caught fire. Those are the same car a few years apart. yes but not the car the OP posted
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Flying Toilet
2,890 posts
80 months
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The car is still on the road now in Marbella and gets bought back here yearly for the MoT as the rules are tighter in Spain.
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Flying Toilet
2,890 posts
80 months
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Crusoe said: Justayellowbadge said: First body caught fire. Those are the same car a few years apart. yes but not the car the OP posted It is the same car. The first body was lost in a fire like JAYB said on the Autobahn.
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Crusoe
2,649 posts
100 months
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Not the unknown car the OP posted though. rear looks quite marcos mantis  
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Flying Toilet
2,890 posts
80 months
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That will teach me not to read properly!  OP, I live locally and would love to take a look. I have had informal SAS training from Rory down the Black Swan. He was in WW2, Vietnam and the Falklands. He worked freelance for the Navy Seals and the SAS during the 70's. He has a photo of Andy McNab in a safe in a undisclosed location that he can use as bargaining power if the authorities ever find out what he did in Poland in 1982. Apparently him and Andy had a mission so dangerous and inhumane that if the public ever found out what they did there would be outcry. He had to retire and now delivers Bettawear catalogues. So overall, I can get in take photos, leave, upload them and never be traced.
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VinceFox
14,284 posts
41 months
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Crusoe said: marshalla said: The Beast Mk1 (before the Rolls Royce lawsuit) Images are hard to come by, but there are definitely some similarities around the rear quarters in particular. Maybe this mystery car is an unfinished Paul Jameson project ? Was in Evo not that long ago, similar but different enough not to be the one shown IMO. http://www.evo.co.uk/features/features/228789/the_... MY EYES!!
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saaby93
11,493 posts
47 months
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The badge is Furia  unless I'm mistaken 
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HowMuchLonger
2,605 posts
62 months
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VinceFox said: MY EYES!! Trust me it will be your ears not your eyes.
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marshalla
8,038 posts
70 months
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saaby93 said: The badge is Furia unless I'm mistaken And there are a lot of Vauxhalls with M3 badges around. Your point being ?
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VinceFox
14,284 posts
41 months
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I tell you what, there's more than a touch of the saab sonnets about it.
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B Huey
4,881 posts
68 months
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Crusoe said: Not the unknown car the OP posted though. rear looks quite marcos mantis No, nothing is that minging.
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B Huey
4,881 posts
68 months
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The T Boy said: I'm fairly sure that it's a 1970's kit with a Ford V6 but I can't for the life of me remember what it's called.
10 or 15 years ago one of the kit car mags ran a series of articles following a bloke restoring an old kit car which (from memory) looked like this one.
The bloke was called Guy something or other and I recall it was posh sounding, maybe double barrelled.
Google searches using this limited information are surprisingly unsuccessful. I think I've seen it somewhere before, I read a lot of kit car mags in the early eighties and went to a fair few shows.
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4key
3,959 posts
17 months
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After spending way too much time on this I've come to the conclusion that its a concept car knocked up for a stand at a show. Its about the right quality, obscure enough to have us all confused and this appears to be the only digital picture of it ever, anywhere.
Im going to go crazy until theres a definitive answer though.
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