Supercars spotted, some rarities (vol 7)

[Matt_T]

Saw this beauty at Goodwood MM over the weekend...

[thegreenhell]

Matt_T said:

Saw this beauty at Goodwood MM over the weekend...

That's a rebodied 330 owned by former McLaren team manager Alistair Caldwell. It's a regular at Goodwood events.

[RSTurboPaul]

Froomee said:

The modern number plate font needs changing to correct, in-period font!

[wobert]

droopsnoot said:

Froomee said:

You were at Combermere too!

[LotusOmega375D]

Froomee said:

That’s the BMW UK Heritage Fleet car. It was featured in the media for the 50th anniversary celebration recently.

[LARK F1 GTR]

This beauty at lunch time. It was so tiny!! (this picture was from 2019 at Ace Cafe) there are other pictures of it online and a magazine article I came across too.

[Matt_T]

thegreenhell said:

Matt_T said:

Saw this beauty at Goodwood MM over the weekend...

That's a rebodied 330 owned by former McLaren team manager Alistair Caldwell. It's a regular at Goodwood events.

Thanks, I did some digging and found this:

On a summer trip to New Zealand, I noticed a magazine article about a company in Auckland NZ who had built a Ferrari GTO replica. I went to see this car and was most impressed by it; after making some enquiries decided to have my 330 GT made into a GTO replica by this company. Sadly after over a year’s work and lots of money, they went bankrupt on me so I was left with an unfinished badly done car which had cost me a lot of money.

I then decided to do the job myself. I found the premises and hired 3 young men, one of whom was the original bodywork man from the bankrupt company – Gavin Tindell — and after a further eighteen months or so and another considerable amount of money, a tool room perfect 250 GTO replica emerged. They did a great job and the car is now back in England ready for action.

Edited by Matt_T on Tuesday 16th April 08:59

[jdw100]

Bumped in to this the other week.

Has to be the perfect colour.

[TopTrump]

slopes said:

Cool story bro

Quite. Never before have I been so underwhelmed by a story.

[TopTrump]

Froomee said:

Love these - 0-60 in 6.4 or whatever was staggeringly quick for the day and what it was.

Is the No. plate covering the reversed-font 'Turbo' sticker on the front though?

[droopsnoot]

TopTrump said:

Is the No. plate covering the reversed-font 'Turbo' sticker on the front though?

Now you've mentioned it, I'd forgotten about that from my old Observers book of cars. Google images suggests that some have it, some don't, and those that do have "2002" on one side, and "turbo" on the other, inside the blue stripe, so the number plate wouldn't cover it.

[addey]

Mansory Urus Venatus Wide Body apparently. Sounded epic, was epically ugly 900hp and 1,100Nm

Driver looked about 20 so guessing footballer (wasn't far from the Chelsea training ground)

[Dapster]

jdw100 said:

Bumped in to this the other week.

Has to be the perfect colour.

I would have agreed with you until I saw this for sale at Macari. Found under a pile of cardboard in a warehouse and then fully restored. Ex Saudi Royal family and reputedly the lowest mileage SV in the world




https://www.joemacari.com/stock/1972-lamborghini-m...

[Agent57]

Dapster said:

I would have agreed with you until I saw this for sale at Macari. Found under a pile of cardboard in a warehouse and then fully restored. Ex Saudi Royal family and reputedly the lowest mileage SV in the world




https://www.joemacari.com/stock/1972-lamborghini-m...

Lovely.

Loving the fire toggle too. Seem to recall some have caught fire.

[Filibuster]

Dapster said:

I would have agreed with you until I saw this for sale at Macari. Found under a pile of cardboard in a warehouse and then fully restored. Ex Saudi Royal family and reputedly the lowest mileage SV in the world




https://www.joemacari.com/stock/1972-lamborghini-m...

Imagine the sound you hear from those 4 triple Weber carburetors right next to your ear on full chat

[CountyAFC]

You mean 6 of them (with another 6 just behind them).

[Filibuster]

CountyAFC said:

You mean 6 of them (with another 6 just behind them).

No, I mean 4. These are triple Weber carbs. A quick google search brought up this:

https://www.instagram.com/peakgarage/p/CkNaY8JIYUc...

[Doofus]

12 carburettors would be a bit of a pain...

[CountyAFC]

Filibuster said:

CountyAFC said:

You mean 6 of them (with another 6 just behind them).

No, I mean 4. These are triple Weber carbs. A quick google search brought up this:

https://www.instagram.com/peakgarage/p/CkNaY8JIYUc...

[maxdb]

It's probably cheating as it was a car show but I've never seen an F50 in the flesh before.