What's this six wheeler?

[untakenname]

Hi, while watching some poor tv program the camera panned out for a split second and revealed this




Just wondered if it was stock as you don't see many six wheelers around?

[Tyre Smoke]

It looks like a Ford Granada estate from mid/late seventies with another bit of Granada estate grafted onto the back.

Definitely not standard!

[mgtony]

Appeared on here a couple of weeks ago.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[LuS1fer]

Remember the mad 70's Panther Six:

[Hooli]

LuS1fer said:

Remember the mad 70's Panther Six:

Spary it pink?

Yes M'lady

[a8hex]

Would never do now for a show car
It would be impossible to fill that wheel arc without moving the ultimate in low profile tyres... caterpillar tracks.

[Hooli]

I do hope it was RWD, all that rubber on the front should make it dead easy to drift

[LuS1fer]

Hooli said:

I do hope it was RWD, all that rubber on the front should make it dead easy to drift

The car is powered by a twin turbocharged 500 CID (8 litre) Cadillac V-8 lifted from the then current Eldorado. The Transaxle was also used and the entire drivetrain was placed behind the driver.

[Hooli]

LuS1fer said:

Hooli said:

I do hope it was RWD, all that rubber on the front should make it dead easy to drift

The car is powered by a twin turbocharged 500 CID (8 litre) Cadillac V-8 lifted from the then current Eldorado. The Transaxle was also used and the entire drivetrain was placed behind the driver.

<Mr Burns>
Excellent
</Mr Burns>

[tapkaJohnD]

I don't think it was real.
Look at the pic closely - click on the small image.
There is a definite difference in image quality at the level of the 'original' C-post, the two wheels are not aligned and the point between the two wheel arches comes to a misty, indeterminate end. There is a line down the brickwork of the building behind as well. It's not a gutter downpipe; no other house in the view has one, it's a mislaignment of the bricks. See also the dashed white line in the road; the dash next to the 'rear' of the two wheels is also mislaigned , whne all the others are straight. Either this is the product of a TV film glitch, or it has been Photoshopped!

'untakenname' is a suspiciuous username to use - are you pulling a jape?
Did you have a prvious go at this, whith a picture of another Granada estate?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/philsimpson1973/53803...
Yes, you did! It's in the same street!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simoit/5328427344/
If any Granada had a roofline kink in it like that, I fear it would fall apart!
John

Edited by tapkaJohnD on Friday 11th May 08:39

Edited by tapkaJohnD on Friday 11th May 08:40

Edited by tapkaJohnD on Friday 11th May 08:47

[esso]

LuS1fer said:

Hooli said:

I do hope it was RWD, all that rubber on the front should make it dead easy to drift

The car is powered by a twin turbocharged 500 CID (8 litre) Cadillac V-8 lifted from the then current Eldorado. The Transaxle was also used and the entire drivetrain was placed behind the driver.

Think they only made 3 of these,with all that engine out the back i bet it handled like a tea-trolley!!....anyone remember the `Hustler?`...it was a 6 wheeled mini-moke lookalike.

[Redwing]

I remember working on a Hustler, absolute mess! Anyone remember the 6 wheel XJS pick up.... International wheels had it made...anyone got a photo?

[Gaspode]

For some unfathomable reason I quite fancied a Hustler when I was younger. Maturity, thankfully, has dissuaded me from the notion. Quite why anyone would want to drive around in a 6-wheeled greenhouse is now beyond my understanding.

[Hybrids]

Redwing said:

I remember working on a Hustler, absolute mess! Anyone remember the 6 wheel XJS pick up.... International wheels had it made...anyone got a photo?

I remember that in Street Machine magazine

[bigblock]

tapkaJohnD said:

I don't think it was real.
Look at the pic closely - click on the small image.
There is a definite difference in image quality at the level of the 'original' C-post, the two wheels are not aligned and the point between the two wheel arches comes to a misty, indeterminate end. There is a line down the brickwork of the building behind as well. It's not a gutter downpipe; no other house in the view has one, it's a mislaignment of the bricks. See also the dashed white line in the road; the dash next to the 'rear' of the two wheels is also mislaigned , whne all the others are straight. Either this is the product of a TV film glitch, or it has been Photoshopped!

'untakenname' is a suspiciuous username to use - are you pulling a jape?
Did you have a prvious go at this, whith a picture of another Granada estate?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/philsimpson1973/53803...
Yes, you did! It's in the same street!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simoit/5328427344/
If any Granada had a roofline kink in it like that, I fear it would fall apart!
John

I think you will find it is real.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/granada-uwe/714579702...

[marcosgt]

Panther 'claimed' the Six would 200MPH, but I don't think anyone ever tested it to roundly rubbish that claim

M.

[Hooli]

Hybrids said:

Redwing said:

I remember working on a Hustler, absolute mess! Anyone remember the 6 wheel XJS pick up.... International wheels had it made...anyone got a photo?

I remember that in Street Machine magazine

Is it bad to rather like that?

[Bobo W]

6 wheels was all the rage at the time. I remember thinking the Wolfrace Sonic was just the bees knees...www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWWoa7xTut8

[Redwing]

Hybrids said:

I remember that in Street Machine magazine

I can't believe you actually had a photo of this! That is awesome! I haven't seen it for thirty years, I was taken round Silverstone in it all those years ago and fell in love with it! Does anyone know what happened to it?

[tapkaJohnD]

bigblock said:

I think you will find it is real.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/granada-uwe/714579702...

Well there you go!
Thank you, bigblock, I'm convinced!
John