What happened to the 'keating' supercar????
What happened to the 'keating' supercar????
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jonnbb

Original Poster:

24 posts

191 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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Anyone remember this joke outfit from a few years ago?

Came out with a something called the skr a few years back. Did a PR thing on an airstrip and the car shat itself. Seem to remember it having an ls1 in the rear.


j44esd

1,237 posts

245 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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jonnbb

Original Poster:

24 posts

191 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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Yes!

Wonder if they have sold any?

j44esd

1,237 posts

245 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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Erm...

No idea! smile

They seem to be trading and have just launched a new variant though - I'm sure someone more knowledgeable will be along shortly to point out one for sale though! smile

Frances The Mute

1,816 posts

263 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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jonnbb said:
Anyone remember this joke outfit from a few years ago?

Came out with a something called the skr a few years back. Did a PR thing on an airstrip and the car shat itself. Seem to remember it having an ls1 in the rear.

The last I saw, they had a Nelson equipped 'TKR' doing a world record attempt at Pendine Sands last year.
The driver lost control and spun it - losing the n/s door and some associated bodywork.

JR

14,064 posts

280 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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j44esd said:
Latest news is back in April.

sday12

5,066 posts

233 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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7L 2000 BHP eek

egomeister

7,507 posts

285 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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Keating Website said:
The TKR’s ultra modern fixed head two seat GT coupe bodyshell demanded extreme creative skills to translate the CAD design into a finite form and produce the body buck. Forced to turn to professionals outside of the UK, Keating finally contracted the crucial task of translating the CAD drawings into beautiful bodywork to specialists in the Philippines. Almost a year later the buck, mould and first complete shell arrived in the UK
rolleyes

"Forced" to turn to professionals outside the uk...

j44esd

1,237 posts

245 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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JR said:
Latest news is back in April.
Hibernating? hehe

Civpilot

6,247 posts

262 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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"quick we need a track variant of our car for some more column inches"

"no worries, take the red one over there and shove some stickers on it"

"what about modifications to the spec?"

"nah, just make some st up, nobody will notice"

I've seen better looking TR7 based F-40 kit cars than those things. Some of the panel gaps look to be visible from space.

JR

14,064 posts

280 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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egomeister said:
Keating Website said:
Forced to turn to professionals outside of the UK, Keating finally contracted the crucial task of translating the CAD drawings into beautiful bodywork to specialists in the Philippines. Almost a year later the buck, mould and first complete shell arrived in the UK
rolleyes

"Forced" to turn to professionals outside the uk...
Yes but I like this bit:
Keating Website said:
Keating finally contracted the crucial task of translating the CAD drawings into beautiful bodywork to specialists in the Philippines. Almost a year later the buck, mould and first complete shell arrived in the UK
Those specialists in the Philippines took a year to build one body from a CAD drawing. Good job they're only on 10p/hour.

anonymous-user

76 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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It was sh*t, only a clinically insane lunatic would want one, no one was that mad.......... ;-)

egomeister

7,507 posts

285 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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JR said:
egomeister said:
Keating Website said:
Forced to turn to professionals outside of the UK, Keating finally contracted the crucial task of translating the CAD drawings into beautiful bodywork to specialists in the Philippines. Almost a year later the buck, mould and first complete shell arrived in the UK
rolleyes

"Forced" to turn to professionals outside the uk...
Yes but I like this bit:
Keating Website said:
Keating finally contracted the crucial task of translating the CAD drawings into beautiful bodywork to specialists in the Philippines. Almost a year later the buck, mould and first complete shell arrived in the UK
Those specialists in the Philippines took a year to build one body from a CAD drawing. Good job they're only on 10p/hour.
The timeframe isn't so bad (assuming what they were provided with was a styling model, not engineered parts), but I'm offended at the suggestion that this couldn't be achieved locally.

I never realised that the Philippines was such a hotbed of body engineering skills....

JR

14,064 posts

280 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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egomeister said:
The timeframe isn't so bad (assuming what they were provided with was a styling model, not engineered parts)
Hold on that's shell, not car. I'd give them a month.

EDLT

15,421 posts

228 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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egomeister said:
Keating Website said:
The TKR’s ultra modern fixed head two seat GT coupe bodyshell demanded extreme creative skills to translate the CAD design into a finite form and produce the body buck. Forced to turn to professionals outside of the UK, Keating finally contracted the crucial task of translating the CAD drawings into beautiful bodywork to specialists in the Philippines. Almost a year later the buck, mould and first complete shell arrived in the UK
rolleyes

"Forced" to turn to professionals outside the uk...
Its true. All the vaguely competent people in the UK wanted paying in money instead of hopes and dreams.

egomeister

7,507 posts

285 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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JR said:
Hold on that's shell, not car. I'd give them a month.
Even with the parts fully engineered you'd struggle to turn around patterns, moulds and parts in a month!