Name The Car

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Humber super snipe?

[KenD]

Humber super snipe?

Good enough - it was actually the Imperial, but no external differences with the field of view I provided

All yours.

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Here we go

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No takers?
Here\'s a clue, Le Mans

[jinx]

The Rover/BRM gas turbine prototype?  

If I\'m right - yet more evidence of the engineering milestones toppled at Solihull and then forgotten about.  No wonder Audi\'s engineers were gobsmacked when they toured \'the rover\' and saw all the stuff its management never did anything with!

Carl - You\'ll remember the mid engined V8 sports coupe with the unstyled bodywork that Bill Boddy drove and pronounced spectacularly good only for Rover\'s top team to ignore the effect it might have had on sales.  Now there was a lesson learned well in Ingolstadt! LOL

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Spot on Andrew.
I do remember the v8 mid engine car yes.
Here is the Rover/BRM Le Mans race car.

[jinx]

Too flamboyant to be very difficult but also a \'house style\' familiar on different chassis.  (FOS attendees beware!)

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Is it Facel ?

[jinx]

Sorry Nigel, not a Facel and not French.

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Is it a Willment Cobra ?

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Good man - absolutely on the right track but not the right chassis.  The chassis and body share the same nationality and you recently saw the chassis wearing different clothes, parked next to the bodystyle on a different host....think side lawn FOS

[jinx]

No interest? It\'s the Supersonic body style from Ghia - a signature design for the firm from 1953. It was first shown on an Alfa Romeo but subsequently translated to other chassis. This is one of the eight Fiat V8\'s to get the rocket ship treatment when Fiat could not shift enough of their standard offering.  Goodwood showed a standard Fiat version next to one of the Jaguar XK120\'s that wore the Ghia body.

Clearly out of synch again - so I\'d suggest Nigel takes the honours as there was indeed a Cobra that got the supersonic treatment as late as 1965.

[clive]

"Supersonic body style from Ghia"

Stayed out of this one as we had this discussion at Goodwood , Ghia obviously believed one size fits all etc :Giggle

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I didn\'t see these cars at the show as from about 2pm I had my Accident

Will post a photo up in due course................

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Here you go