Noble P4 Ferrari Replica.

[Yazza54]

Nice car, didn't realise it was near as damn it the same as an ultima chassis under that body. My dad has been building a Maserati/Ferrari F136 V8 Ultima with 360 Ferrari 6spd box for quite some time but it's finally coming together, recognised the chassis straight away.

[Dave Hedgehog]

Yazza54 said:

Nice car, didn't realise it was near as damn it the same as an ultima chassis under that body. My dad has been building a Maserati/Ferrari F136 V8 Ultima with 360 Ferrari 6spd box for quite some time but it's finally coming together, recognised the chassis straight away.

what a fab platform to build on

[Noble P4]

As far as I'm aware the dimensions of the Noble P4 rep are as the original car...the body moulds were taken off David Piper's original. The only change was higher bodywork over the roll hoop to give more headroom and make it more useable however some owners have remodelled this area to factory dimensions.

[DKL]

I remember seeing a Noble P4 replica in one of the mags in the late 80s/early 90s. I'll see if I still have it.

[Noble P4]

DKL, if you have that mag I would be interested in the details...

[P4Replica]

EFA said:

Neither (Noble or Foreman).

Its a P4 recreation called a Nova Automobili 412P.

EFA said:

Correct, Neither Paul Skett nor Google know anything of this.

Sorry no pics of the car until its built.

Or almost built, perhaps Arnie ?

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/f...

I dunno which sounds worse: 'Nova Automobili' or 'Glickenhaus Replica'. LOL !!

And of course, no parts of the chassis or fibreglass bodywork in any way resemble a Foreman P4.

Edited by P4Replica on Tuesday 20th December 18:58

Edited by P4Replica on Tuesday 20th December 19:00

[P4Replica]

It's surprising what Google knows. I'd also known about this car several years ago - before August 2009, when Arnie Webb posted this on GT40's com:

http://www.gt40s.com/forum/rcr-forum-rcr40-slc-917...

"Hi, I'm building one of the last Foreman P4 replicas and now its at a rolling chassis stage I'm looking at the bodywork.

I've made quite a few changes to the Foreman design in order to get it at least making something closer to the right noise (flat plane V8 and tranny from an F355) and a few other modes to get it so it should turn in some reasonable lap times given its power to weight ratio."

[Furyblade_Lee]

I went to Neil Foremans house years ago and he was was building a helicopter (!) and had a Ferrari engined V12 P4 in build... I think it had 6 Weber carburetters on it and he had it running but the deal was for the new owner to get the engine dialled in. Was an absolute monster of a car , and exquisite up close