GTCC #785

Colin · February 25, 2012, 05:51:06 AM

Try this one:

cawimmer430 · February 25, 2012, 10:25:49 AM

Hmmm...some type of Lotus Elan concept car?

Colin · February 25, 2012, 10:41:24 AM

No, sir.

cawimmer430 · February 25, 2012, 10:42:02 AM

A Rover?

Definitely British.

Colin · February 25, 2012, 11:06:34 AM

Not a Rover.

Rupert · February 25, 2012, 01:09:04 PM

Looks like a chopped up Lagonda wagon.

Colin · February 25, 2012, 01:16:31 PM

No, not that.

cawimmer430 · February 25, 2012, 01:37:28 PM

Triumph!

Colin · February 25, 2012, 01:45:01 PM

Not a Triumph.

cawimmer430 · February 25, 2012, 01:46:07 PM

Bristol?

Colin · February 25, 2012, 01:58:22 PM

Come now, would Bristol really come up with something looking like that?

That means "no".

Rupert · February 25, 2012, 02:05:30 PM

Some weird TR-7/8?

Colin · February 25, 2012, 02:09:53 PM

No, no connection to a TR7/8......... I did say it's not a Triumph.

Rupert · February 25, 2012, 02:36:21 PM

*ahem* So you did, so you did.

TVR?

I'm grasping at straws. Sure looks British.

Laconian · February 25, 2012, 02:52:43 PM

Citroen BX Break?

cawimmer430 · February 25, 2012, 03:32:55 PM

Is this perhaps the Colin 5000? The car you were building in your basement?

Colin · February 25, 2012, 11:50:33 PM

Credit me with more taste than to build something that looks like this.............

The stylist was British, I'll give you all that.

cawimmer430 · February 26, 2012, 05:38:53 AM

Ok. So it might not be British after all even though the designer was British.

Some kind of Bertone concept car styled by a non-Italian?

Colin · February 27, 2012, 01:28:29 AM

I'd continue to focus on British if I were you........

cawimmer430 · February 27, 2012, 10:01:14 AM

Jaguar?

2o6 · February 27, 2012, 12:28:46 PM

Is it in the British Leyland at all?

Colin · February 27, 2012, 03:24:18 PM

Quote from: 2o6 on February 27, 2012, 12:28:46 PM
Is it in the British Leyland at all?

I don't understand what that collection of words means..........

Keep going with the Jaguar thought, Herr Wimmer.

cawimmer430 · February 27, 2012, 05:24:21 PM

DAIMLER!

Colin · February 27, 2012, 11:54:31 PM

Jaguar is relevant, but not the answer. Daimler does not advance you any further.

Laconian · February 28, 2012, 01:35:47 AM

Rapport Fort?

Rupert · February 28, 2012, 01:45:58 AM

It's a what now?

cawimmer430 · February 28, 2012, 05:40:31 AM

Colin · February 28, 2012, 10:55:22 AM

Correct.

The Jaguar XJ-based Rapport Forte.

If you want the story behind the Rapport Forte, it is well related here: http://www.aronline.co.uk/blogs/2011/09/25/rapport-forte/

93JC · February 28, 2012, 11:15:24 AM

I confess I was scouring the depths of ARonline.co.uk (a fantastic site for info on all manner of British cars, if anyone here hasn't looked at it before; their articles tend to be very good reads, if not a little too biased) for any info on this thing. Obviously I didn't find it before Kevin did.

What a ridiculous car. The coupe-cabriolet doesn't look too bad with the top stowed, in a cheesy '70s wedge kind of way. The one-off estate looks... I can't imagine why anyone thought that was a good idea.

Either way you've got to love the headlights. Certainly a unique solution to integrating them into a wedge front end.

Cookie Monster · February 28, 2012, 11:29:02 AM

That is crazy!!! Better not try and raise/lower the roof when underneath something.