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Speedwell made fiberglass fastback hard tops and one piece noses for the Sprite, and the Speedwell Sprites were succesful racecars. They also did a one off streamliner based on the Sprite ( designed by Frank Costin ), that set a record at 132MPH.   |
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A later MG attempt at Bonneville gave us this ZT-T estate, which ran a top speed of 225.609 mph.  |
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This car is related to the above by BL/rover group and setting land speed record. In the case of the bonneville mini cooper it was for under 1000cc Road cars, managing an impressive average run of 156mph at 2012 speed week  |
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jpsmit
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James Bond's DB5 also had a machine gun protruding from next to the grille.  |
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JB's guns were hidden well. Britt Reid and Kato's car stood out a bit more Green Hornet's Black Beauty, complete with machine guns ... This Green Hornet was based on a 1966 Chrysler Imperial  |
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The original Black Beauty was built by Dean Jeffries. He also built the Mantaray ( which was based on a Maserati Single Seater chassis. The Maserati was used in the Kirk Douglas movie "The Racers")   |
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rodharris83
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Dean Jeffries was also a Stuntman in the Blues Brothers, which uses a 1974 Dodge Monaco Sedan...   |
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Like the Bluesmobile, the doors also fall off in the end:  |
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Last Edit: Mar 5, 2020 11:36:31 GMT by MkX
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jpsmit
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OK not exactly a car though by the end of the movie it was. AND no doors AND the driver wore leather helmet and googles I give you the Mad Max Gyrocopter.  |
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Last Edit: Mar 5, 2020 13:26:43 GMT by jpsmit
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I think I see a VW engine back there. So for the next link, Inch Pincher. Inch Pincher was a '56 bug driven by Dean Lowry and Darrell Vittone, of EMPI fame. Inch Pincher's dragracing career is well known, but maybe less known is that it was raced by Dan Gurney in a VW only race at the Nassau Speed Week.  d |
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Dan Gurney also piloted this Ford Galaxie  Which is one of my favouritest looking race cars, ever. |
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Del
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There was a band in the 80s called Galaxie 500. And there was also an 80s band called Pantera.  |
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'I come not from Heaven, but from Essex'.
The Retro Rider formerly known as Silvermac.
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Cars and rock bands, rock bands and cars... They go together like a horse and carriage This I tell you, brother You can't have one without the other.... Therefor one of my favorite "Band" car;  ZZ Top frontman Billy Gibbons is no stranger to the automotive world with a car collection like no other, including cars like “CadZZilla”. But there is one car owned by Gibbons that is by far his most famous ride to-date and that car is none other than the chopped 1933 Ford coupe known as “Eliminator”. |
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The American Ford above took its styling queues from the smaller British Ford Model Y. However, since that doesn't take us out of the Ford family, I'm going to haul us back over to the Soviet Union for this, the GAZ M1.  Both the 33 Ford and the GAZ M1 are based on the Ford Model B. There had been a technology sharing agreement signed between Ford and GAZ in 1932 which is how GAZ was able to use the Model B as the basis for their new car, just as they had with the Model A before it. This new car, the M1, was developed with lessons learned from the shortcomings of the GAZ A that preceded it, namely that it was no longer an open-topped touring car. It was found the Model A, generally considered robust enough everywhere else, wasn't robust enough for Russia, nor was it at all suitable for use in the winter, being far too exposed to the elements. So, the new car would solve this with an all steel body with an enclosed cabin, Ford's suspension would be revised with suspension of GAZ's own devising to deal with the much harsher roads, and the usual wire wheels replaced with more robust pressed steel ones instead. The result was a car that was as iconic to the Russian automotive scene as the Ford would be to the American one, and while the GAZ M1 to my knowledge didn't have a notorious police murder to pump up its reputation, it did appear on a stamp in 2012 (thanks, Wikipedia!).  |
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Before you posted that I was going to put a more obvious link to the 33 Ford but I'm glad I didn't because I've learned something I never new before. Anyway, the GAZ M1 shares a name (though presumably nothing else) with BMW.  |
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BMW M1's were used for the Procar Championship. Which was open for professional race car drivers of several different classes ( F1, Touringcars, etc )  So not unlike the IROC ( international Race of Champions ), that used 911 RSR's.  |
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Sticking with the VAG group, and the many colours that are on those cars, I give you, the polo Harlequin  |
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