The rare 1 and between 1000 ever made car thread A to Z

[madrod]

GTRene said:

slowly slowly said:

madrod said:

I owned 1 of 2 imported into the UK in the mid 1960's. Does anyone know what model it is & where its from.
Note the Split rear screen which had a 'D' Type Jag Fin.

Edited by madrod on Thursday 5th October 12:59

It's right hand drive, its imported, and it's small so it must have come from Japan.
It looks like one of those Honda 800 sports.

Don't know what that car is? it has the grilles almost of the BMW Z8 nice car though...but I see not a Honda sports 800 in it...or its heavely modified?
GTRene

Its imported & RH drive & comes from South AFrica its a GSM Flamingo & very rare. Based on Ford Mechanics the engine was a 1500GT engine when new. Mine was later fitted with a 1600 Mexico engine, Twin DCOE 40, Kent Cam & Modded Head it was fast in its day with a genuine 125mph possible.

[gopher]

jeremyc said:

gopher said:

Jeremyc - the green one on the right, you wouldn't know if it's the ex car of a Pher do you? If so I think my neighbour may now own it.

I beleive it is still owned by a guy in London who isn't around on PH.

Ah fair enough, my neighbour also doesn't vist here, but he has (had?) a pistonhead's sticker in the back that was there when he bought it. Awesome car nonetheless.

[r5gttgaz]

madrod said:

GTRene said:

[quote=slowly slowly][quote=madrod]I owned 1 of 2 imported into the UK in the mid 1960's. Does anyone know what model it is & where its from.
Note the Split rear screen which had a 'D' Type Jag Fin.

Edited by madrod on Thursday 5th October 12:59

Wheels!

Edited by r5gttgaz on Thursday 5th October 19:53

[mattbvw]

Jankels...

The Hunting/Hawking 6x6 Range Rover. 15 built, mainly for Middle Eastern clients. IIRC it was featured in Jeremy Clarkson's Motorworld programme about Dubai.



The Tempest. Around 30 built. 0-60 in 3.89 in 1992. Reviewed in Performance Car, May 1992.

[zed sump]

Parrot of Doom said:

Oh yeah, only one of these ever made. I wonder why?

i'm moving to this forum - so much funnier!!!
"WTF is going on with the fcking seat motiffs ?? Fcking Paella munching Sangria swilling Garlic smelling diego dogface lowlife hairy armpit licking bullfighting cockjockey !!!

This car alone should be enough reason never to give Gibtraltar back to the spanish!!"


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ok i'm back....

Edited by zed sump on Thursday 5th October 20:26

[zed sump]

1 of 3 Sunbeam Tiger LeMans 'Mule' variants

atleast 1 remains - a road legal, occasional show piece at car events in USA and UK.
http://sunbeamtiger.co.uk/

[GTRene]

Good find madrod about that unknown car...never heard about it that GSM Flamingo from South Africa? funny...
and those wheels indeed does not do that car justice....

Also Zed, very nice found...also never seen one of those Sunbeam Tiger Lemans cars...though I knew the Sunbeam Tiger also the V8 cars...nice...
GTRene

[HAB]

1970 MB C111/2 4 Rotor Wankel-1 of 2.






1970 Ford GT70 rally car-1 of 3.



BMW M1-1 of 456.



Porsche 959 - < 300 built

Edited by HAB on Thursday 5th October 22:54

[GTRene]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm nice M
and nice want to have list

Edited by GTRene on Thursday 5th October 22:59

[danielgray]

mercedes C111, they put a 500 hp petrol in it and set a speed record of 250 mph. (after putting a diesel in it and setting all kinds of distance records.)



www.pistonheads.com/doc.asp?c=103&i=6730

Edited by danielgray on Thursday 5th October 23:32

[Polarbert]

If your talking about specifics then mine is only 1 of 5 in the same colour and trim level.

[apache]

madrod said:

I owned 1 of 2 imported into the UK in the mid 1960's. Does anyone know what model it is & where its from.
Note the Split rear screen which had a 'D' Type Jag Fin.

it looks frightened

[4WD]

My common S3 is presently in a 1 off specification, with a unique arrangement of bird poo on the passenger side door and a special arrangement of ply wood dust in the boot. A commemorative dashboard plaque is on the way.

[slowly slowly]

Is this the same car.

[LuS1fer]

The 254mph Callaway Sledgehammer - 1 of 1

The Callaway Speedster- 10 produced

Callaway C12 - not many


Then there's the Lingenfelter Twin Turbo Corvette

Or the 650hp version:

Edited by LuS1fer on Friday 6th October 07:53

[richardlw]

Gordon Keeble GT - 99 made and 65 left

[GTRene]

richardlw said:

Gordon Keeble GT - 99 made and 65 left

Thats going fast when only 99 made and just 65 left...but then its back from the 60's so stil 65...never seen one i the real world only in books and internet.
GTRene

[GTRene]

hmmm..and what about this classic AC 428, only 86...its a 4 seater and looks a bit the same as a Maserati Mistral, my twin sisters have such Maserati Mistral Alubody 4.0L...very nice car but this AC has a V8 7.0L and 350hp...slurp...





ATS 2500 GT/GTS (V8 2467cc 210<>245ps) only 12...





GTRene

[jwyatt]

It's nothing like as rare/special as this lot, but I'm pretty sure I'm driving around in a car (below) of which less than a thousand were made. This gues is on the basis that only 107 were sold in the UK, It's not sold in the US, It's not German so wouldn't have sold well there, and taxes would have cripped it's salesin most of the rest of Europe (3.2l petrol):

[GTRene]

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