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The good thing About the Abruzzi was that it was so fast you could easily miss it if you blinked - oops - that's GONE so fast.
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I think the Abruzzi might be the last true "oddball" GT car, at least as far as top-level sports car racing goes.
Stringent homologation rules have been a good thing for the sport, on the whole - but there's something sad about the world that has died, where a couple of blokes could accidentally build a brilliant car in the garden shed. I'm not saying the Abruzzi was one of those cars (though some of the cars in this thread could certainly be described that way), but it wasn't exactly built in the numbers of the 911... I miss cars like the Abruzzi. At Le Mans, it now even seems a tall order to expect a slightly quirky manufacturer like Spyker. |
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I wonder if the new GT regs in a couple of years time will encourage more 'oddball' cars? Anyway, a few more oddball cars: http://www.racingsportscars.com/phot...-04-04-075.jpg http://www.racingsportscars.com/phot...-04-04-073.jpg http://www.racingsportscars.com/phot...-05-21-006.jpg http://www.britishgt.com/gallerypic....=2006&event=51 Would the TVR T400Rs count? They were small in number but definitely made a great impact! |
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Probably been mentioned already but anyway, no list of oddball cars would be complete without a Morgan:
http://www.gtdreams.com/_FIAGT_Nogar...o2008_0849.jpg |
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I see some McLaren F1 cues in that...
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I posted something about this in another thread, but I think it probably qualifies here too... the Marcos G70 GT. Interesting in that it belonged to (and was raced by) F1's Dr. Jonathan Palmer. As seen here, it's being run in a VARAC vintage racing event (on the Toronto IndyCar circuit) by John Coome, back in 2009.
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Now that's a ducktail!
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That's a garage door.
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That car has to be saying something in that second shot..... That air intake 'mouth' at the front and the puffed out 'cheeks' are straight out of 'Cars' surely!!
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Looks like a Viper with a different bumper.
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It's the Rover 3.9L V8, said to be 300hp.
http://johncoomeracing.com/ The information on that website seems pretty old so I don't know if it's still racing or not. EDIT - some nice photos of it (not mine) in this set, also from 2009: http://www.myracingimages.com/photo-...009/Group%207/ Last edited by rwintle; 11 Jan 2014 at 19:21. Reason: found some pics |
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I like the original. No silly screw on wheel arch extensions, and it was surprisingly quick, with 1600cc (As I recall it?)...
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Trident Iceni GT!
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