NorfolkNWeigh Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 V8 FE,killed by OPEC Oil Embargo weeks before launch at the motor show . If Vauxhall had made this Ford would have had to make V8 Granadas and Triumph put the Stag V8 in the 2000, maybe even a 318 Chrysler 180. The Saudis have got a lot to answer for . Dick Longbridge, RichardK, Banger Kenny and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warren t claim Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 V8 Granada and Capri. Mk3 Granada coupe. NorfolkNWeigh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spike60 Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 The Corvette estate looks ok in a Scimitar kinda way, the one in the pic is a UK car I think On the other hand the rear engined Corvette from 1964 was the leery pig it was going to be! A large amount of the styling survived to become the front engined Corvette C3 in 1967 Banger Kenny and Junkman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 A large amount of the styling survived to become the front engined Corvette C3 in 1968 EFA. The '67 'vette was gleefully C2. They did another mid-engined concept in the mid-Seventies called "1980 Corvette": It was supposed to have a four-rotor Wankel. mercedade, dugong, face and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Ford Granada Altair by Ghia: I bet it would have sold better than the MK3. DVee8, Banger Kenny, NorfolkNWeigh and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asimo Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Jaguar Mk10 and then XJ with Daimler's 4.5 V8 engine instead of the XK engine. Issigonis' Metro with the straight six engine / torque converter only transmission. Banger Kenny, Low Horatio gearbox, Junkman and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Zantimisfit, mouseflakes, Uncle Jimmy and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr A Lawrence Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Sheefag, mouseflakes, cms206 and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDuke Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 1967 Pininfarina 'Landcrab' prototype, pre-dating the CX and SD1 by several years. All stock 1800 running gear. mouseflakes, NorfolkNWeigh, Dick Longbridge and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Almost perfect, except for that kink at the back. If they'd kept the window base line straight and slightly sloped the roof down, it would've been awesome. Although needing different rear doors would've made it even more improbable. Let's not forget that these are prototypes. There is a long way of development ahead until they'd be ready for production.I was still at BMW when they started to develop the e30 Touring, so it must have been 1985. The idea was born because BMW employee Max Reisböck had modified his saloon (this is NOT an urban legend!) and his car served as the first prototype. It still took them until 1991 to develop it for production. dugong, forddeliveryboy, garethj and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doobietoo Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Bammmmm..... Uncle Jimmy, Sheefag, vulgalour and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Imagine how much these would be worth had they built them.......... There has been a re-creation, I believe..... Zantimisfit, Junkman, Vince70 and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Bammmmm..... Isn't that a standard Autobianchi Primula, or am I missing something? Vince70 and dugong 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 DVee8, Banger Kenny, Asimo and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted November 5, 2015 Author Share Posted November 5, 2015 Let's not forget that these are prototypes. There is a long way of development ahead until they'd be ready for production.I was still at BMW when they started to develop the e30 Touring, so it must have been 1985. The idea was born because BMW employee Max Reisböck had modified his saloon (this is NOT an urban legend!) and his car served as the first prototype. It still took them until 1991 to develop it for production.Imagine that happening today. Or not. It's a shame the whole design and make process has become so clinical. Never knew that's how the E30 touring started. Lacquer Peel and Junkman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 mouseflakes, mercedade, Aston Martin and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 One of these lived near me...... forddeliveryboy, NorfolkNWeigh, Banger Kenny and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doobietoo Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Isn't that a standard Autobianchi Primula, or am I missing something? Yep ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dugong Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 This is what I wanted when I had Minis Oooh, Radford DeVille. There was a very serious Rover Group proposal to give the original Mini a hatch, called the MinKi (K for K-Series) - in fact, a hatch was but one of several improvements the team wanted to implement, along with a new dash, different seats and a K series Because of crash test issues, concerns about torsional rigidity (and because type approval would have meant spending money), the project never went anywhere. There was also this mad one off thing a Redditch coachbuilder converted for a customer. It was on eBay last year. Of course, there was a hatchback Mini built by British Leyland - but not in the UK: This was the 1974 'Bertone' Mini, a reshelled hatch using Mini floor pans and running gear, built by Innocenti (a BL satellite) in the old Lambretta works in Milan. If you look carefully, some of the ADO88 Metro clay proposals used Bertone Mini wheels. You could buy them in the UK via an importer but they were never available through Austin dealerships. Why BL didn't use it as a stopgap before the Metro in 1980 I've no idea. Later Daihatsu engined cars (built under Alessandro DeTomaso's control when he purchased Innocenti from BL) were actually craftilty re shelled Daihatsu Charade G11s. That's how hot Japanese Domestic Market Charade G11s ended up badged as DeTomasos - a reverse licensing agreement. Fat_Pirate, forddeliveryboy, Sheefag and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scruff Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 There's a few RR Classic convertibles around, I think Freddie Mercury had one that was sold at auction a few years ago and I once met a rather strange man who had spent an awful lot of money trying to find the brown one Roger Moore drove in Octopussy. Can't find the picture now but dugong (I think) posted a two door 405 coop that looked stunning dugong 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDuke Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Isn't this prototype the one that had a vent on the O/S pillar, and a porthole on the N/S, as they couldn't decide which looked better? andrew e 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dugong Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Imagine how much these would be worth had they built them.......... 001_Saxon.jpg There has been a re-creation, I believe..... Yeah, a Mk1 Cortina specialist showed it at the London Classic Car Show last year. He did most of the fabrication work with a cutting torch in one hand and that picture in the other. He used a 1500GT as a donor - and it was quite a nice one, as well. He ended up parading it because the organisers were supposed to have club stands in the other hall in the ExCeL - but it didn't happen. He ended up doing the moving motorshow as a conciliatory gesture. Having laid out a lot of money to get several cars ready for the show, he suddenly had nowhere to display them. He ran it with and without hardtop, which he also fabricated. This is Dave, a Ford factory apprentice. He walked up to the owner and said: "This is how I remembered seeing the Saxon back in the 'Sixties." I'd take that as a compliment. Quite a few times, groups of anal concours types pored over it, and began snorting because there was a bit of loose paint on the B pillar - completely missing the fact that the owner had bloody fabricated the thing using nothing but an old jig and a press photograph. vulgalour, Vince70, chaseracer and 16 others 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dugong Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Can't find the picture now but dugong (I think) posted a two door 405 coop that looked stunning The Heuliez one? It had two different side window treatments. And Mi16 running gear. And it sold for 12,000 euros. It didn't have any identity papers mind - it would have been a sod to get through an SVA. Probably would have ended up on a Q plate. Truth be told, I found the Artcurial Heuliez sale more interesting than the rest of LMC 2012. Artcurial seemed to own this rather mental X300 XJR estate, too: Banger Kenny, Junkman, mercrocker and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 mouseflakes, Uncle Jimmy, cms206 and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Low Horatio gearbox, dugong, cms206 and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 ^^ Has that Jaaaaaaaaaag got the top back end of a Camry XV20...? Aston Martin and Uncle Jimmy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 robinmasters, RichardK, dugong and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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