Jump to content

Recommended Posts

Advertisement (gone after registration)

They made a sports car in the 1930's called a Jowett Weasel. That must have sold a lot of cars to young men looking to impress the opposite sex. "Like to come out for a run in my Weasel darling?"

 

Wilson 

Link to post
Share on other sites

They made a sports car in the 1930's called a Jowett Weasel. That must have sold a lot of cars to young men looking to impress the opposite sex. "Like to come out for a run in my Weasel darling?"

 

Wilson 

To which the reply might've been "No dear, I'll stay put and toy with my Ferret" (Daimler, of course).

 

S..

Link to post
Share on other sites

I used to drive Ferrets at university OTC. They were quite fun. The Daimler armoured car was much less fun to drive with incredibly heavy steering and being very slow. I made myself very unpopular during summer exercises at Catterick, by getting the the armoured car bogged down halfway up to the turret by taking a "short cut" across a marsh. 

 

Wilson

Link to post
Share on other sites

Advertisement (gone after registration)

I have never driven one of the four cylinder Fiat ones (750/850/1000) but certainly fun to drive. I went to buy a Steyr Puch 650SS (very similar to the 2 cyl Abarth 695) once but probably wisely decided against it and bought a BRM Lotus Elan instead. My father decided to buy my mother a Simca Abarth 1300 in the early 1960's but she just could not drive it (he thought it was great). Sadly it was sold the year before I learnt to drive, so I never had a go of it but it was replaced by a Mini Cooper, so that was OK. It was one of the first road cars to produce 100bhp/litre but you had to keep it between 5 and 7000 RPM all the time. 

 

Wilson

Link to post
Share on other sites

Better late than never.....

 

Here is the following mystery car. Answers on a postcard to the usual address......

 

 

Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here…

Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!

Link to post
Share on other sites

Not a Dodge, but it is American. Let's see if the following shot helps....

Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here…

Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!

Link to post
Share on other sites

Yes, Wilson has it. Willys Jeep. Not sure of the exact year. The Dutch licensing body says 1960 but it's obviously older than that - presumably it entered the Netherlands for the first time then, 1942 is probably about right. Photo taken during the 70th anniversary of Dutch Liberation in Amstelveen earlier this year.

Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here…

Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!

Link to post
Share on other sites

Here is your next one. Don't bother Googling for a nine cylinder broad arrow engine, that will not get you anywhere  :D

 

Wilson

 

 

Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here…

Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!

Link to post
Share on other sites

Well done Dunk. It is a GT40 originally MkI but now more a MkIII in spec, with a 5 litre engine, big brakes etc but still compared with that of a well known F1 designer, whose GT40 is made from titanium and carbon fibre, pretty genuine. It was in the next pit garage to us in the 2008 Old Timer GP Marathon at the Nurburgring, where they use a combination of both the old Nordschleife and the modern GP circuits. The GT40 was leading for most of the race but succumbed to fuel flow problems late on.

 

The race was red flagged just before the scheduled finish time due to a rain delayed start and therefore, exceeding the evening noise limits at the village at the bottom of the circuit. We came over the line in the lead in our Porsche 904/6 GTS but the organisers said the result would be the order in the lap before, where a lightweight E-Type was ahead of us but had crashed on the last lap. Technically it should have to have been running at the red flag and should therefore not have been counted in the results but it was German and we weren't, so the rule got waived. 

 

This is quite a scary race due to the wide variation in car types. We were overtaking cars like the Steyr Puch 650 along the straight with an 80-90 MPH speed differential and it would have been more for the GT40. 

 

Wilson

 

 

Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here…

Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!

  • Like 2
Link to post
Share on other sites

Here's the next mystery car which is fairly well known so no clues … 

 

Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here…

Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!

 

 

 

Good luck

 

dunk

Link to post
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...