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Mystery car spotted in old London photo

19 pointsby hackerbeatover 1 year ago

8 comments

petercooperover 1 year ago
Disclaimer: I know next to nothing about 1960s cars :-D<p><i>Little is known about this concept, although the original Sunbeam Tiger is a popular classic V8 sports car that was designed by racing driver Carroll Shelby.</i><p>Maybe there&#x27;s a connection? The rest of the rear looks nothing like it but the upper rear quarter-panel has a distinct notch shared by hardtops put on the AC Cobra (a.k.a. the <i>Shelby</i> Cobra) <i>and</i> the front of the car has Cobra-like &quot;snout&quot; and fenders.<p>This is total guesswork that smarter people could probably destroy in a heartbeat, but could it be a camouflaged prototype? The Cobra was prototyped (and being built at Thames Ditton) in early 1962 – <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.supercars.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;1962-ac-shelby-cobra-prototype&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.supercars.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;1962-ac-shelby-cobra-prototyp...</a> – and the arches look oddly rough&#x2F;plain in that photo. Could it be a prototype with the flared arches removed and a hardtop stuck on?
haunterover 1 year ago
Pisthonheads forum has 124 pages long topic about it (started in 2015) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pistonheads.com&#x2F;gassing&#x2F;topic.asp?h=0&amp;f=140&amp;t=1555306&amp;i=0" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pistonheads.com&#x2F;gassing&#x2F;topic.asp?h=0&amp;f=140&amp;t=15...</a>
reboot81over 1 year ago
London 1960 busy street photorealitic grainy photo custom speedcar 4K.
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globular-toastover 1 year ago
The Sun? Really? This should come with a NSFW link.<p>Also this just doesn&#x27;t seem interesting at all. Is it really hard to believe someone made a car slightly different from mass produced models and that was caught on camera one time?
mysterydipover 1 year ago
I&#x27;m going with kit car or customized&#x2F;one-off. Fiberglass fabrication wasn&#x27;t uncommon then.
brucethemoose2over 1 year ago
I acidentally mashed the flag button, sorry! I immediately unflagged, but its still marked.<p>I dunno what this is, but there are tons of older cars with a very similar body.
walthamstowover 1 year ago
Link to original tweet<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;bo66ie29&#x2F;status&#x2F;1715436993784467946" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;bo66ie29&#x2F;status&#x2F;1715436993784467946</a><p>X has its problems but it is preferable to what is quite simply the most evil newspaper in Europe. Outing homosexuals, hacking phones, warmongering, Hillsborough, AIDS misinformation, the list goes on. I wouldn&#x27;t wipe my arse with it.
croisillonover 1 year ago
Emma Peel&#x27;s Lotus