Name The Car

[clive]

Here you go,

First was a Jaguar MKII 3.8 MOD, that I paid the princely sum of £80 at the age of 17 from a Bowater Scot director who took the car with him when he retired , still remember it cost me £75 to insure  

Beautiful condition car, chauffeur driven all its life and at the time worth nothing (then) !, didn\'t  go bad though as I was told it had the E-type engine in it.

Had a bizarre rear suspension set up with a panard rod that for some reason kept ripping itself out of the chassis till I beefed it up,

No idea why it tore itself out as this was a rot free car, maybe, just maybe I cornered a little too fast with it :driving

Couldn\'t find an identical XJ6 Daimler Jag, mine was a 3.6, green sand with a brown vinyl roof and green velor interior, sounds hideous but it was actually a gorgeous looking car, sold it after an offer I couldn\'t refuse :cool.

[jinx]

Hi Ken... Yes Unipower GT - now often referred to as a kit car but sold fully built.  Amazingly they closed the factory doors after the first 75 with a bulging order book and deposits taken.  The original partners having disagreed and split up, the remaining ones decided car production was just a distraction and pulled the plug.  

Photos really don\'t do it justice and as (Mk IV Zephyr\'s aside!) it is easier to design a big car well, the Unipower was all the more impressive.  This picture makes the roof look tall and the tail heavy but seen for real it was a very sleek little thing. Many sprouted enormous wheel arches to accommodate ever-wider rims for racing, which makes those original 10" alloys (Dunlops or Cosmics?) even rarer and just right!

Your ball.

[jinx]

I don\'t know why you don\'t like MkII\'s Clive....OK, apart from the Moss gearbox, heavy steering, indifferent standard brakes and [lest we forget] the rust.  That said, I saw one parked among modern super cars outside a posh foreign hotel and it looked right at home. I would have taken it as my first choice.  By chance I met the owner and he told me my opinion was shared by others because he\'d already turned down more than he paid for it at the auction he was on the way home from!

[clive]

I don\'t know why you don\'t like MkII\'s

Ahh, never said I didn\'t like it indeed I wish it was still in  garage in the same as I bought it condition, like you say though, heavy steering, truck box and little to no brakes, plus horrible understeer leading into snap oversteer also used to make my back ache like mad on a journey , BUT huge charisma as did the series 2 Daimler at the time,

One Jag I wouldn\'t want again was the series 3 which was a badly put together tin can by comparison, made by an almost dead British Leyland it really should not have sported a Jag badge, they recon that one of the last was inspected as it came off the line and 170 snagging faults were found !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[KenD]

Thanks jinx.  I always wondered what would have happened had the GT been developed further.  As you say it was proving itself to be in demand yet they closed the doors on it.  Oh well....

Here is the next one:

[jinx]

Armstrong Siddeley?...Typhoon or Hurricane?  Hard to tell without more.

[KenD]

Armstrong Siddeley?...Typhoon or Hurricane?  Hard to tell without more.

Not from the Armstrong Siddeley stable jinx.

Here\'s a little more:

[jinx]

Aha...bonnet side vent and curved chrome.... that\'ll make it a Lea Francis 2.5?

[KenD]

Aha...bonnet side vent and curved chrome.... that\'ll make it a Lea Francis 2.5?

That\'s the one jinx.  Quite a performer in its day developing 120 bhp with a top speed over 100.  Somewhat overshadowed (and outsold) by the Jaguar XK series.

Over to you.

[jinx]

Interesting to note how far ahead of the rest, Lyons was with the XK but looking back now the LeaF looks rather classy whereas, in the wrong light, an XK can look almost tarty...but maybe that\'s the owners! :Laugh  Years ago I helped  to drop dirt-cheap Mk10/S-Type engines in more than one XK to keep them running. Damned if I know where the seemingly endless supply of matching numbers cars has come from today but maybe if you have the current purchase price, originality is easy to arrange.

I\'ve got man-flu...a really serious case mind you...none your limp-wristed, 24-hour, hairdresser\'s man-flu.  Anyway, I\'m stuck here feeling particularly sorry for myself so somebody has to pay - hence this devious puzzle posted without so much as a single clue as to its country of origin.....

[KenD]

Good to know I\'m not the only one who gets proper flu as opposed to some short lived imitation which used to be called "a cold"!

I\'ve been running round in circles on this one, but I think I now have it.  My assumptions went...Italian, Ferrari but which model....looked at the 365 GTC, 330 GTC, 500 Superfast and 275 GTB.  The light arrangements weren\'t quite right on the first 3, and all the pictures of the latter show it with headlight covers.....but take away the covers and....bingo.  

So I reckon it\'s the Ferrari 275 GTB?

[jinx]

Did I not warn you it was devious?  Clearly the mind and pen behind this had a soft spot for those you list and probably even the bloke they got in afterwards to sort it out too, though he never worked for Ferrari, but no...it is none of them.  

I\'ll be polishing my \'Devious\' merit badge while you think again. Muhahaha

[clive]

Hmmmmmm, I thought Ferrari straight off but a quick search killed imediatly that because of the quarter bumpers

I suspect something plastic now :rolleyes:

[jinx]

Ker-pow....No. You are looking at cold hard metal....and not just the car. (What, no smiley for steely-hearted resolve? )

[Skifledanabit]

alfa romeo spider.