Help identifying a strange little car
Discussion
dickyweed said:
ZETA ZS - posts up to January 2016 - came across these posts this weekend.
Can any one help?? We have been trying to locate this car for years. It was built in Langley 1971 by my father, based on a 1200 beetle chassis donated from nearly new beetle which had been rolled. Any info on where it is now would be really appreciated.
HiCan any one help?? We have been trying to locate this car for years. It was built in Langley 1971 by my father, based on a 1200 beetle chassis donated from nearly new beetle which had been rolled. Any info on where it is now would be really appreciated.
My father Tony along with Chris helped Dick to make this car!
I remember coming up from Aldershot in my summer holidays and helping.
Also remember the Bee Gees getting them to power up their go carts. Dick drove me up and down the Cul de Sac on the back of one of them.
Spoke to. This this morning and he’s found evidence of the car out side a hotel in France in disrepair.
All the best
Marc Chappell.
I hadn’t even seen the pic the thread starter posted as the google image brought me in at page 11 on the thread so thought it was the black and white image of the Jupiter on page 11 that needed identifying , I’m short sighted but not blind but admittedly hasty in my keenness to solve one of these
BarbaricAvatar said:
I now think the car is one of those that's already been mentioned. It's just this particular car is a crashed example; which is why it's parked in a peculiar place.
A crash bad enough to break the windscreen, crumble the offside wing half way up the bonnet, put creases in nearside back quarter, a gap at the front of the bonnet and bend the front bumper, but zero sign of any damage along the whole of the nearside or across the rest of the bonnet?BarbaricAvatar said:
I now think the car is one of those that's already been mentioned. It's just this particular car is a crashed example; which is why it's parked in a peculiar place.
Even though all of the cars previously mentioned, have been ruled for having various differences to the car shown, hardly any of which have anything to do with any alleged accident damage? 
It looks like some crumpling at the rear and the front end looks a little misshapen. The “gap” at the bonnet doesn’t look like one consistent with or caused by any damage though. Nothing conclusive about the other side being damaged, just the colouring blends in with the background and nothing to conclude that the screen is damaged.
But either way, as above, there is no way that the damage on the car even comes close to altering any of the features that have ruled out every car mentioned.
But either way, as above, there is no way that the damage on the car even comes close to altering any of the features that have ruled out every car mentioned.
Ferodocastrol said:
How the heck have I missed this thread? Well, I have been a tad busy since before Xmas.The Hotel de France is and has been famous for decades, for competitors and fans of Le Mans - just up the road.
First and foremost I don't have a clue what the mystery car is, this is just hopefully added help.
Aston Martin used this Hotel regularly back in the day to stay there, drivers, team and fans.
Leaving UK in 1963 for Le Mans (and Hotel de France).
So I would say that the mystery car has to be the mid/late 50s or very early 60s.
The photo below was taken outside the Hotel in the car parking (and transporter) area in 1964
and, yes, I realise the car is NOT the mystery car, its just to depict what I've said above.
If you are unsure it's the same hotel area, there is the weird looking 'tree monster' to the left mentioned above.
And yes, of course I know what the said car is in pic. Please refrain from copying it, thanks.
I could add more but can't sadly, bar that the marque is fascinating. As is the story behind this model.
I think the guy looking inside (normally isn't it a schoolboy?
) thinks the same: 'Gosh, I'd bloody love one of these.' So would I!
dandarez said:
How the heck have I missed this thread? Well, I have been a tad busy since before Xmas.
The Hotel de France is and has been famous for decades, for competitors and fans of Le Mans - just up the road.
First and foremost I don't have a clue what the mystery car is, this is just hopefully added help.
Aston Martin used this Hotel regularly back in the day to stay there, drivers, team and fans.
Leaving UK in 1963 for Le Mans (and Hotel de France).
So I would say that the mystery car has to be the mid/late 50s or very early 60s.
The photo below was taken outside the Hotel in the car parking (and transporter) area in 1964
and, yes, I realise the car is NOT the mystery car, its just to depict what I've said above.
If you are unsure it's the same hotel area, there is the weird looking 'tree monster' to the left mentioned above.
And yes, of course I know what the said car is in pic. Please refrain from copying it, thanks.
I could add more but can't sadly, bar that the marque is fascinating. As is the story behind this model.
I think the guy looking inside (normally isn't it a schoolboy? ) thinks the same: 'Gosh, I'd bloody love one of these.'
So would I!
MEU 636 has an interesting history.The Hotel de France is and has been famous for decades, for competitors and fans of Le Mans - just up the road.
First and foremost I don't have a clue what the mystery car is, this is just hopefully added help.
Aston Martin used this Hotel regularly back in the day to stay there, drivers, team and fans.
Leaving UK in 1963 for Le Mans (and Hotel de France).
So I would say that the mystery car has to be the mid/late 50s or very early 60s.
The photo below was taken outside the Hotel in the car parking (and transporter) area in 1964
and, yes, I realise the car is NOT the mystery car, its just to depict what I've said above.
If you are unsure it's the same hotel area, there is the weird looking 'tree monster' to the left mentioned above.
And yes, of course I know what the said car is in pic. Please refrain from copying it, thanks.
I could add more but can't sadly, bar that the marque is fascinating. As is the story behind this model.
I think the guy looking inside (normally isn't it a schoolboy?
) thinks the same: 'Gosh, I'd bloody love one of these.' So would I!
Period picture of my GT, taken in '67, and of the car as restored this year.
Edited by Keep it stiff on Thursday 13th August 07:34
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