What's this thing on eBay?

What's this thing on eBay?

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hairykrishna

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13,183 posts

204 months

Tuesday 30th March 2021
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Mid engined thingy, alfa badges? Seems to be getting a lot of bids for a non-runner, non registered project.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Unknown-Kitcar/23393859...

Equus

16,977 posts

102 months

Tuesday 30th March 2021
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Ooh, interesting...

It's not one I recognise, and the fact that it's listed as being with body moulds suggests that it's a one-off.

The engine and transaxle appears to be Alfa 33 (the horrible boxy hatchback, not the V8 race car, sadly), and the wheels are Alfa too (AlfaSud Sprint).

The plenum on the engine is non-standard, though, I think - and it's not quite a good enough photo, but if that's an intercooler at the top right corner of the engine bay, maybe it's turbocharged?

hairykrishna

Original Poster:

13,183 posts

204 months

Tuesday 30th March 2021
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Intriguing isn't it? I'd misread in that in runs, but badly, rather than a non runner.

I quite like the look of it. Strong money though really as I suspect the IVA would be a pain in the arse .

Skyedriver

17,891 posts

283 months

Tuesday 30th March 2021
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Side view I'd have said a Bonito
But then I got to thinking there was a VW based car in the early 1970's but I cannot recall it's name. The rear buttresses were similar but not the front.as it had fixed headlights IIRC
There were two VW based cars features in an edition of Hot Bra one was called a Sillouette (spelling?) think the other began with a C. Not one of those charger things.

Desiderata

2,386 posts

55 months

Tuesday 30th March 2021
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Looks a lot like an MR2 (MK1) based kit that one of my mates built. Sorry I can't remember who made the kit.

Gareth9702

370 posts

133 months

Wednesday 31st March 2021
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This looks more like a modified RV Dynamics Nemesis.