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Title: GTCC #785
Post by: Colin on February 25, 2012, 05:51:06 AM
Try this one:

(http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r139/colinrear/Historic%20Silverstone%202009/P1090543.jpg)
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: cawimmer430 on February 25, 2012, 10:25:49 AM
Hmmm...some type of Lotus Elan concept car?
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: Colin on February 25, 2012, 10:41:24 AM
No, sir.
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: cawimmer430 on February 25, 2012, 10:42:02 AM
A Rover?

Definitely British.
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: Colin on February 25, 2012, 11:06:34 AM
Not a Rover.
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: Rupert on February 25, 2012, 01:09:04 PM
Looks like a chopped up Lagonda wagon.
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: Colin on February 25, 2012, 01:16:31 PM
No, not that.
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: cawimmer430 on February 25, 2012, 01:37:28 PM
Triumph!
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: Colin on February 25, 2012, 01:45:01 PM
Not a Triumph.
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: cawimmer430 on February 25, 2012, 01:46:07 PM
Bristol?
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: Colin on February 25, 2012, 01:58:22 PM
Come now, would Bristol really come up with something looking like that?

That means "no".
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: Rupert on February 25, 2012, 02:05:30 PM
Some weird TR-7/8?
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: Colin on February 25, 2012, 02:09:53 PM
No, no connection to a TR7/8......... I did say it's not a Triumph.
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: Rupert on February 25, 2012, 02:36:21 PM
*ahem* So you did, so you did.  :tounge:

TVR?

I'm grasping at straws. Sure looks British.
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: Laconian on February 25, 2012, 02:52:43 PM
Citroen BX Break? :huh:
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: cawimmer430 on February 25, 2012, 03:32:55 PM
Is this perhaps the Colin 5000? The car you were building in your basement?  :lol:
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: Colin on 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.
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: cawimmer430 on 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?
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: Colin on February 27, 2012, 01:28:29 AM
I'd continue to focus on British if I were you........
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: cawimmer430 on February 27, 2012, 10:01:14 AM
Jaguar?
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: 2o6 on February 27, 2012, 12:28:46 PM
Is it in the British Leyland at all?
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: Colin on 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.
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: cawimmer430 on February 27, 2012, 05:24:21 PM
DAIMLER!
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: Colin on February 27, 2012, 11:54:31 PM
Jaguar is relevant, but not the answer. Daimler does not advance you any further.
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: Laconian on February 28, 2012, 01:35:47 AM
Rapport Fort?
(http://www.aronline.co.uk/images/rappforte_07.jpg)

(http://classiccars.brightwells.com/images/lots/R1_33.jpg)

(http://www.myfacewhen.net/uploads/961-aww-yeah.jpg)
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: Rupert on February 28, 2012, 01:45:58 AM
It's a what now? :confused:
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: cawimmer430 on February 28, 2012, 05:40:31 AM
 :praise:
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: Colin on 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/
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: 93JC on 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. :lol:

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.
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: Cookie Monster on February 28, 2012, 11:29:02 AM
(http://www.aronline.co.uk/images/rappforte_03.jpg)

That is crazy!!! Better not try and raise/lower the roof when underneath something. :mask:
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: Colin on February 28, 2012, 11:29:13 AM
I have to say, Mark, my money was on you identifying it!

Yes, aronline is a treasure trove of interesting info............ and a mix of "thank god, they did not build that" along with a few "gosh, I wish they had the money and had been able to build that one.........."

That Rapport Forte picture is from when I saw it at the Silverstone Classic festival in 2008. I did not know what it was, and it looked a bit tatty. Definitely unique, and that's probably a Good Thing!
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: 93JC on February 28, 2012, 11:50:05 AM
Quote from: Colin on February 28, 2012, 11:29:13 AM
I have to say, Mark, my money was on you identifying it!

I couldn't cheat quickly enough. :lol:
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: Laconian on February 28, 2012, 01:56:43 PM
While browsing British shooting brakes, I found that some that were quite sexy, and others that were unimaginably hideous.
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: 93JC on February 28, 2012, 02:42:48 PM
There's a difference between

(http://www.seriouswheels.com/pics-abc/Aston-Martin-DB5-Superleggera-Shooting-Brake-fa-lr.jpg)

and that... thing.
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: Laconian on February 28, 2012, 05:02:03 PM
I'll try and take a walk when it stops raining and see if I can find an interesting car.
Title: Re: GTCC #785
Post by: cawimmer430 on February 29, 2012, 06:43:56 AM
Quote from: Laconian on February 28, 2012, 05:02:03 PM
I'll try and take a walk when it stops raining and see if I can find an interesting car.

Post a rare Plymouth Volare Coupe Shooting Break!  :praise: