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Name that car

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Any ideas what this one is

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It's an Oldsmobile Toronado.
Front-wheel-drive, 7 litre V8 engine. Chain drive from engine to gearbox.
A beautiful young woman named Dianne Durose drove one of these in Derbyshire in the 70s. Heads turned.
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Nice one, interesting rear end shape almost trans am-ish. Interesting looking car front wheel drive too. My picture from the UFO series again.
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There's a reason to hate the guy who created this car.
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That will be a Peerless GT, Triumph TR based, later became the Warwick. I believe one of the original founders was Mr Gordon, who went on to produce the Gordon Keeble, the car I lust after more than a Jensen.
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Just noticed the scary guy with no head!!
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Right Kevin.
There was also a Peerless Motor Company in the USA.
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Tony's three headlight teaser - 1948 GATSO 400 Aero designed by Maus Gatsonides, The Netherlands. He had more success in inventing the GATSO speed sensing camera, hence " There's a reason to hate the guy who created this car".

In searching for the GATSO (which wasn't easy!) I came across these two, amongst many more cars with three headlights -

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Rover 75 and the Tucker. Above.
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AH1951 wrote:There's a reason to hate the guy who created this car.
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Gatso but I am not sure of the type.
In the late 40's or early 50's Maus Gatsonides tried to make his fortune in the manufacturing of cars, based on Ford Zephyr/Consul if I am not mistaken.
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My best guess? An american Camaro/Firebird based kit car.....
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Fibrefab Jamaican kit car, late '60s. Bill Spohn, ex 104/2300, has one with a GM V6 3.4ltr engine.

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http://www.britishv8.org/mg/billspohn.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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So the Fiberfab was based on a MGA, or Triumph or even Beetle. I can understand why Bill chose a modern(ish) GM V6, but not why he made an effort to inscribe the MG emblem to the top. It is not a MG engine, there never was a MG V6 (or maybe the ZT had one?) and the Fiberfab is a bitsa car so why the trouble?
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