The Numbers Game

[moffspeed]

Innes, Targa Florio, Cobra 289, it gets no better…

Edited by moffspeed on Friday 19th January 21:13

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soxboy said:

Elddis Encore 295

Hmmm - we’ll let it go just this once.

The only classic tin tents eligible for this thread are the Bailey Maestro and the Bailey Prima. When people were stupid enough to go caravan racing/road rallying in the 70’s they were apparently the most stable and best handling (?) ‘vans.





Allegedly you would fail scrutineering if you didn’t carry a full set of cutlery.

[moffspeed]

The magnificent Honda RA301 and the forgettable (for multiple reasons) RA302.

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An engine that, in various forms, stayed in production for 40 years.

The 1949 Oldsmobile Rocket “small block” .

303 cu in.

[moffspeed]

One of many fine 312 Ferraris :

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1963, the first ever victory for a mid/rear engined car at Le Mans, the 250P Ferrari.

Compared to the previous front-engined leviathans that had won at Le Mans this was a thing of delicate beauty and you can see the design cues that carried over into the prototype cars of the following couple of decades.

Scarfiotti & Bandini covered 339 laps to win that year….

[moffspeed]

Volvo 340.

Sweden's answer to the Lotus Sunbeam.





Seriously though I once owned a 360GLT which I rescued from a scrap yard. It was surprisingly entertaining (particularly in the wet). It did remind me a little of my old Lotus Sunbeam - with the emphasis on the little.

Edited by moffspeed on Saturday 20th January 20:48

[moffspeed]

With my Lanciaphilia hat on -

The type 342 engine as fitted to the Fulvia Coupe 1.3HF. If you've never driven one - beg, steal or borrow one, you deserve it.



342 cms was also the wheelbase of the pre-war Lancia Lambda.

[moffspeed]

Not entirely sure about this but I reckon - if you exclude cycle cars, microcars, bubble cars and 3 wheelers - the Honda N360 was the volume produced/4 wheeled production car with the smallest capacity engine.

354cc.

[moffspeed]

163 backwards (into a barrier) = 361.

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WPA said:

Ferrari 365 GTB-4

Not forgetting that it's less than a week to the Daytona 24h and the return of proper motor racing…

[moffspeed]

The glorious and often-overlooked 1999 BMW V12 LMR.

5990cc/366 cu in.

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Fast forward here - Dallara F3 cars - 386>387>388>389>390>391>392>393>394>395>396>397>398>399.

[moffspeed]

Quite naturally and deservedly Project 400 :

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Dan Gurney’s Chevy Impala 409.

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Lightweight E replica anyone ?

[moffspeed]

7 mins 19 secs, Jackie Stewart’s pole time for the German GP (Nurburgring) 1971 - 439 seconds.

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Turbobanana said:

Piero Taruffi, winner of the 1955 Giro di Sicilia in Ferrari 118 LM #438



The race was 1,088km and Taruffi's time of 10h 11m was 8m ahead of second-placed Umberto Maglioli's similar car, but a staggering 5hrs faster than the last classified finisher Gino De Santis' Fiat 600

Edited by Turbobanana on Monday 22 January 09:17

I suspect that driving nearly 1100kms non-stop (ish) around Sicily in a Fiat 600 whilst averaging 45mph+ was just as heroic (and terrifying) an experience !!

[moffspeed]

Matchless G50 from 1960.

496cc.

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Unusual one this.

McLaren C8 Group C car run in 1982 by Peter Hoffman.

Ran with no real success. Nothing to do with McL really - a 10 year old M8F dressed up with a fairly typical GpC body.

Chevy 496 cu in at the blunt end.