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aeronca65t

aeronca65t

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Guess what this is?
Extra points if you know what the orange thingy is under the hood.

<span style='font-size: 8pt'>Banjo is excluded, since he may have seen this thing up close. </span>

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Beautiful!!
 
Looks like a Glasspar body.

I'll take a wild guess on the orange thing and say it's a McCullogh (sp?) supercharger.

Must be an oldie since Glasspar was one of the first GRP bodies made - also one of the first volume GRP boat manufacturers.
 
Ashamed to admit: I'd no recollection. The supercharger wasn't a total mystery but the car... sheesh. The Darrin I do know of but didn't know it was a "modified" G2. Wild.

Thanks Nial!

And well done, John.
 
aeronca65t said:
Yes, Mike...there's a lot of XK-120 in the Glassbar.
(but the Jag is smaller and somehow, has a nicer proportion to my eyes).
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/bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/iagree.gif 100% Jaguar did it right! The grill on this car is too 50s US for my taste!! Put a Jag-type grill on it andit would make all the difference! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
 
bugimike said:
aeronca65t said:
Yes, Mike...there's a lot of XK-120 in the Glassbar.
(but the Jag is smaller and somehow, has a nicer proportion to my eyes).
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/bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/iagree.gif The grill on this car is too 50s US for my taste!!
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I agree - but it's not too 50's, it's too 1750's /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
I saw it flying around the track, hefting with the Healeys, but he dropped out not too long into the race. I never did get a chance to go and find it up close. I shoulda. that's one unique car!
I was watchin the Carrara Panamericana Healey 100-4! that was a nice car too.
 
Hello Mike,

"Does anyone think that maybe the folks at Jaguar might have taken a close look at the styling (for the XK series)?? Change the grill and the similarity is uncanny!!"

Maybe it was the other way about as the XK 120 series started in 1947\48?

Alec
 
I thought the XKs were 1950s era cars!? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rolleyes.gif
 
Thanks Doc.!! I will give you one knee on that, as the article does state that the "production models of 1950...steel bodies...etc." Which is what I was thinking! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbsup.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cheers.gif Those earlier ones would be like saying that new "retro" Chevy Camaro would be a 2006/7 since it was shown at the auto shows then, not a 2008/9 (if they build it at all!!) /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rolleyes.gif
 
Hello Mike,

you miss the point, the car was produced in 1948 so it's design is quite a bit earlier than the Glasspar. How could Jaguar have taken that design as a basis for their XK120?

Alec
 
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