What is this car?

[D18OCK]

Hey

I need help identifying a beautiful car we saw yesterday at the Triumph international. Basically it was a black roadster no larger than the Spitfire and I would have guessed that it was straight out of the 60's perhaps slightly earlier. This is the best picture we could get of it. It is not a Cobra!

It had a winged badge on not disimilar to Aston Martin but I don't know that it could be any Aston I know of. It sounded like it had a straight 6 in and it was bloody quick!

It had bullet style rear lights and a lozenge shaped rear end.







Have fun.

Daz

[niagra]

I would say a Vincent Hurricane. It was a Spitfire based car and the badge is very Aston like.

Dario

[D18OCK]

niagra said:

I would say a Vincent Hurricane. It was a Spitfire based car and the badge is very Aston like.

Dario

Hmm, good shout i forgot that these even existed, front looks quite similar but the back isn't right. The search continues...

[trackerjack]

There is one about that has a 5.7 litre V8 shoved in it.NICE
Vincent Hurricane kit car

[locogeoff]

If it looked a bit like a mini Cobra it may have been a Sammio Spyder.

[D18OCK]

Good call, it could well have been one of those, would make sense if based on a Triumph afterall.

It didn't have a raised pod behind the driver though but I suppose there could be several variations.

We had thought that we had sussed out what it was, though I forget what we decided it was now - helpful.

[//j17]

D18OCK said:

It didn't have a raised pod behind the driver though but I suppose there could be several variations.

RICE FOR BODY SHELL
Complete one piece body tub (with or without headrest), one piece flip front, dashboard and cill finishers
£795

From that sounds like the headrest/hump was optional.

[toast boy]

Swallow Doretti?

[D18OCK]

//j17 said:

RICE FOR BODY SHELL
Complete one piece body tub (with or without headrest), one piece flip front, dashboard and cill finishers
£795

From that sounds like the headrest/hump was optional.

Well spotted. Think that is probably the culprit then! Was a very pretty car and astonishingly quick!

[dave de roxby]

D18OCK said:

Hey

I need help identifying a beautiful car we saw yesterday at the Triumph international. Basically it was a black roadster no larger than the Spitfire and I would have guessed that it was straight out of the 60's perhaps slightly earlier. This is the best picture we could get of it. It is not a Cobra!

It had a winged badge on not disimilar to Aston Martin but I don't know that it could be any Aston I know of. It sounded like it had a straight 6 in and it was bloody quick!

It had bullet style rear lights and a lozenge shaped rear end.









Have fun.

Daz

Almost certainly a Vincent Hurricane! Check out the right hand side bonnet hump.

Edited by dave de roxby on Tuesday 29th March 09:15

[simon3000]

if the car was a kit then the badge could be misleading.i cant see your photos clearly but could it have been one of these

[simon3000]

and a front view

[Spitfire2]

dave de roxby said:

Almost certainly a Vincent Hurricane! Check out the right hand side bonnet hump.

Edited by dave de roxby on Tuesday 29th March 09:15

In fact it is probably the very car in the pic you posted which is now on the road and was built by a chap called Toby. There is a build thread over on the club triumph forum

http://club.triumph.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum10/Blah.pl...

I've got some pics of it in my camera from when he took part in the recent Round Britain Reliability Run, but as that's not handy here's one showing how it looks now from the build thread

[D18OCK]

Spitfire2 said:

In fact it is probably the very car in the pic you posted which is now on the road and was built by a chap called Toby. There is a build thread over on the club triumph forum

http://club.triumph.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum10/Blah.pl...

I've got some pics of it in my camera from when he took part in the recent Round Britain Reliability Run, but as that's not handy here's one showing how it looks now from the build thread

That's it definately it! I looked on CT first but couldn't find it!

Well done that man!

[goodwoodweirdo]

Spitfire2 said:

I've got some pics of it in my camera from when he took part in the recent Round Britain Reliability Run, but as that's not handy here's one showing how it looks now from the build thread

Wooow where in the UK was that pixs taken, looks more like the Alps !!!

[Spitfire2]

That pic is from the Club Triumph 10 Countries Run which takes place every couple of years.

So quite likely is the Alps.

[Hurricane1500]

only just found this

[LordBretSinclair]

goodwoodweirdo said:

Spitfire2 said:

I've got some pics of it in my camera from when he took part in the recent Round Britain Reliability Run, but as that's not handy here's one showing how it looks now from the build thread

Wooow where in the UK was that pixs taken, looks more like the Alps !!!

Or it could be the Picos mountains in northern Spain. I was there last week - some of the best driving roads I've been on - like the Alps but absolutely no other traffic.

[Spitfire2]

LordBretSinclair said:

Or it could be the Picos mountains in northern Spain. I was there last week - some of the best driving roads I've been on - like the Alps but absolutely no other traffic.

Believe its the Alps but Hurricane1500 can confirm. Its his car :-)