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Mystery car spotted in old London photo

19 points by hackerbeat 3y ago

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reboot81 3y ago
London 1960 busy street photorealitic grainy photo custom speedcar 4K.
- zadler 3y ago
  Would be easy to identify with the text and other artifacts.
- icepat 3y ago
  > Custom speedcar Most likely, could be a car someone built out of a junk yard for fun.
walthamstow 3y ago
Link to original tweet https://twitter.com/bo66ie29/status/1715436993784467946 https://twitter.com/bo66ie29/status/1715436993784467946 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't wipe my arse with it.
croisillon 3y ago
Emma Peel's Lotus
petercooper 3y ago
Disclaimer: I know next to nothing about 1960s cars :-D 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. Maybe there'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 Shelby Cobra) and the front of the car has Cobra-like "snout" and fenders. 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 – https://www.supercars.net/blog/1962-ac-shelby-cobra-prototype/ https://www.supercars.net/blog/1962-ac-shelby-cobra-prototyp... – and the arches look oddly rough/plain in that photo. Could it be a prototype with the flared arches removed and a hardtop stuck on?
globular-toast 3y ago
The Sun? Really? This should come with a NSFW link. Also this just doesn'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?
mysterydip 3y ago
I'm going with kit car or customized/one-off. Fiberglass fabrication wasn't uncommon then.
haunter 3y ago
Pisthonheads forum has 124 pages long topic about it (started in 2015) https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=140&t=1555306&i=0 https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=140&t=15...
brucethemoose2 3y ago
I acidentally mashed the flag button, sorry! I immediately unflagged, but its still marked. I dunno what this is, but there are tons of older cars with a very similar body.

19 points by hackerbeat 3y ago

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reboot81 3y ago

London 1960 busy street photorealitic grainy photo custom speedcar 4K.

zadler 3y ago
Would be easy to identify with the text and other artifacts.
icepat 3y ago
> Custom speedcar Most likely, could be a car someone built out of a junk yard for fun.

walthamstow 3y ago

Link to original tweet https://twitter.com/bo66ie29/status/1715436993784467946 https://twitter.com/bo66ie29/status/1715436993784467946 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't wipe my arse with it.

croisillon 3y ago

Emma Peel's Lotus

petercooper 3y ago

Disclaimer: I know next to nothing about 1960s cars :-D 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. Maybe there'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 Shelby Cobra) and the front of the car has Cobra-like "snout" and fenders. 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 – https://www.supercars.net/blog/1962-ac-shelby-cobra-prototype/ https://www.supercars.net/blog/1962-ac-shelby-cobra-prototyp... – and the arches look oddly rough/plain in that photo. Could it be a prototype with the flared arches removed and a hardtop stuck on?

globular-toast 3y ago

The Sun? Really? This should come with a NSFW link. Also this just doesn'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?

mysterydip 3y ago

I'm going with kit car or customized/one-off. Fiberglass fabrication wasn't uncommon then.

haunter 3y ago

Pisthonheads forum has 124 pages long topic about it (started in 2015) https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=140&t=1555306&i=0 https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=140&t=15...

brucethemoose2 3y ago

I acidentally mashed the flag button, sorry! I immediately unflagged, but its still marked. I dunno what this is, but there are tons of older cars with a very similar body.