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Special Cars...

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by Exige, Jan 8, 2019.

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  1. Wonder if it will be in the Targa rally, going right past our door on oct 16th?
     
  2. Probably not, it usually sits in a museum nowadays.
     
  3. 1970 908/3
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  4. This lives on same street as Birds Mini.

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  5. Took the Mrs to see the Shlumph collection in Mulhouse a few years ago, seriously that is what it is called!
    Knocks spots off of Beaulieu, for the collection of cars.
    Amazing that the family managed to hide the 100+ Bugattis from the nazis during WW2.
     
  6. IMG_20201018_122447.jpg IMG_20201018_122548.jpg Saw this while out on a walk.
    Never heard of a Facel Vega. French 1959.
     
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  7. Facel Vega. Choice of pop stars, royalty and Hollywood actors. Ringo Starr, Ava Gardner to name a few.
     
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  8. See post #1 on this thread.
     
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  9. The Facellia was a bit of a disaster though. A small sportscar with a 1.6 engine isn't in the same league as the bigger cars - and difficult to charge coachbuilt prices for. The original engine was unreliable so the later ones had Volvo engines - nothing wrong with that as such and although the B18 was reliable and performed well they weren't renowned for refinement. All the rust and cost of an HK500 without the value and kudos!

    If they'd done the smaller car and kept a Chrysler V8 (maybe the smaller 318ci?) it could have been a good alternative to a Cobra or Tiger........
     
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  10. I sold this a few years ago. Not one of the best decisions I've made in recent years:sob::weary_face:

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  11. I did a full re-paint on one of those a couple of years ago.
    Wasn’t the engine developed by Yamaha?
     
  12. Yeah. Ford/Yamaha developed the 1.6 engine for the standard Puma.
    The FRP was a Tickford tuned version making 153 bhp.
     
  13. That was the Duratec and Zetec

    Tickford turned them for the Racing Pumas.
     
  14. My mistake...the 1.7 Puma engine had the Yamaha collaboration.
    The 1.6 was the Zetec.
     
  15. Yamaha also done the 1.6 Zetec-s.
     
  16. And the 1.25 Fiesta in the mid nineties - I'll get me coat :bucktooth:
     
  17. I know, I was working for FMC as an evaluation driver at the time :)
     
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  18. We had a corolla with a 180hp 1.8l motor with a Yamaha head on it. Man that thing could scream!
     
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