The I'm Bored Guess The Car Quiz (No Googling allowed)
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Equus said:
The smaller car is a Jomar. Essentially a rebodied TVR, I think.
Correct, not too difficult for PH.April 5, 1959: Action during the 1000km of Daytona USAC Road Racing Championship race at Daytona International Speedway has the Holman-Moody Ford Thunderbird driven by Fireball Roberts, Ralph Moody, Chuck Daigh and Dick Rathman passing the much smaller Jomar 7C 113 of Ray Saidel and Paul Mansen. The Jomar was built on a TVR chassis and powered by a supercharged Climax 1220 cc engine. Alloy body work was custom fabricated.
moffspeed said:
Rats, I was not quick enough! I remember looking at this at Farnborough, it was the test bed both for the rear steer and the concept of the wheels being off-set. I think it got sold when the project was wound up.Just to keep the ball rolling as no one seems to be chipping in at the moment.
As a kid in the 60's the exploits of this car/driver always fascinated me. Chichester might have been doing it on the Ocean but not too many cars were circumnavigating the globe then (or now), yet alone one this size.
So what is it and what macabre history did it hide ??
If you have been to the Brooklands museum a dusty exhibit in the corner would help you...[url]
|https://thumbsnap.com/YJ7ZgdAJ[/url]
Incidentally - if there had been camera phones in those days all of those dudes would have been snapping away, no ?
As a kid in the 60's the exploits of this car/driver always fascinated me. Chichester might have been doing it on the Ocean but not too many cars were circumnavigating the globe then (or now), yet alone one this size.
So what is it and what macabre history did it hide ??
If you have been to the Brooklands museum a dusty exhibit in the corner would help you...[url]
|https://thumbsnap.com/YJ7ZgdAJ[/url]Incidentally - if there had been camera phones in those days all of those dudes would have been snapping away, no ?
Edited by moffspeed on Friday 29th May 18:12
nicanary said:
That's a Rytecraft Scootacar. Think the guy was Jim Somebody-or-other. Either crossed the USA or round the world or summat. No idea what macabre secret.
Impressed..Jim Parkinson. The Rytecrafts were fairground dodgem cars but the company decided to equip some of them with small scooter engines to use as micro-road cars. Somehow young Jim managed to circumnavigate the globe in this one.His car was previously owned by J.H.Christie AKA the "acid bath murderer". A particularly unpleasant - sounding individual who murdered at least 6 people and destroyed the evidence in a sulphuric acid bath. Pierrepoint put an end to his antics in 1949.
OK, someone else take the baton.
Equus said:
moffspeed said:
Gladiator ??
That's the one.I defy anyone to now look at a picture of that car without thinking of Charton Heston posing for a gay bondage magazine centrefold.
Different times, I guess...
Equus said:
moffspeed said:
It was due to enter production in 1963 but I think they were too busy lining their pockets with Cobra money.
...after a couple of beers you could mistake it for an S series TVR
Even easier to mistake it for the AC Frua 428, which was put into production in both convertible and coupe form, from 1965-73:...after a couple of beers you could mistake it for an S series TVR
I wonder why they decided to go with the Frua design, instead of their own, in-house attempt, given that they are visually so similar?
Edited by Equus on Tuesday 26th May 13:36
moffspeed said:
...owned by J.H.Christie AKA the "acid bath murderer". A particularly unpleasant - sounding individual who murdered at least 6 people and destroyed the evidence in a sulphuric acid bath. Pierrepoint put an end to his antics in 1949.
[pedant]The acid bath murderer was a chap named John Haigh. John Christie was the serial killer who hid the bodies around the house at 10 Rillington Place, dramatised so well in the film featuring Richard Attenborough and John Hurt [/pedant] Back to the cars....
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