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OBC Mantorp
« on: November 23, 2007, 06:41:48 PM »
who knows this one?
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Re: old edge design
« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2007, 06:54:36 AM »
Please be telling - is from Eastern bloc, comrade?
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Re: old edge design
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2007, 07:06:47 AM »
Njet!
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Re: old edge design
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2007, 07:11:34 AM »
Japanese?
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Re: old edge design
« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2007, 07:56:28 AM »
Or maybe Austrian?
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Re: old edge design
« Reply #5 on: November 24, 2007, 04:04:52 PM »
None of those.

It comes from a european country where there were and are only two major national car companies.
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Re: old edge design
« Reply #6 on: November 24, 2007, 05:13:43 PM »
Volvo ESV "something"?
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Re: old edge design
« Reply #7 on: November 25, 2007, 05:41:26 AM »
right country!

but not one of those two manufacturers, of course...
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Re: old edge design
« Reply #8 on: December 01, 2007, 08:44:15 AM »
That is an OBC Mantorp.

OBC (sometimes called BCS for Beckmann Cars Sweden AB) or Ottmar Beckman Cars AB was a car manufacturer in Mantorp, Sweden. In 1974 they presented a two seated mid engined sports car called OBC Mantorp (named after the Mantorp Park race track). The design was somewhat similar to the Lotus Elan, but with a more rounded front. It was powered by a BMW engine mated to a Porsche gearbox. Both the chassis and bodywork was in fibreglass. The company planned a production rate of five a day with 100 employees, but it never entered production.
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Re: old edge design
« Reply #9 on: December 01, 2007, 01:57:15 PM »
Quote from: KarnUtz on December 01, 2007, 08:44:15 AM
The design was somewhat similar to the Lotus Elan, but with a more rounded front.
You are just kidding, right? :lmao:
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Re: old edge design
« Reply #10 on: December 02, 2007, 01:54:47 AM »
Those aren't my comments; they came from the site that ID'd the car.
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Re: old edge design
« Reply #11 on: December 02, 2007, 06:04:28 PM »
Wow, you did it!

Well the Lotus comparison.... :headache:
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Re: old edge design SOLVED: OPC Mantorp
« Reply #12 on: December 04, 2007, 02:39:34 PM »
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The design was somewhat similar to the Lotus Elan, but with a more rounded front

Well, maybe there were more than one prototype...

This is the original version of the OPC Mantorp scan posted above:

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Re: old edge design SOLVED: OPC Mantorp
« Reply #13 on: December 04, 2007, 03:19:49 PM »
I was puzzled by the licence plate, which is clearly a German clone. Problem is, no German district has 'GD' registrations, that's why I suggested Austrian. But it was a red herring all along. A great, big, red, boxy herring...
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Re: old edge design SOLVED: OPC Mantorp
« Reply #14 on: January 22, 2013, 07:43:35 AM »
This was a 'Gugelot Design' product.
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Re: old edge design SOLVED: OPC Mantorp
« Reply #15 on: January 22, 2013, 10:04:19 AM »
Judging by some of the comments, I would have expected "Gulag Design'
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Re: old edge design SOLVED: OPC Mantorp
« Reply #16 on: February 11, 2013, 04:48:11 PM »
Searching on this one to potentially post it as a new puzzle, I noticed that it is incorrectly titled, as it is an OBC Mantorp, not an OPC.  Thanks.
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Re: old edge design SOLVED: OBC Mantorp
« Reply #17 on: March 13, 2013, 09:08:39 AM »
I'd say this looks like quite a few different cars, but a Lotus is not one of them...!
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Re: OBC Mantorp
« Reply #18 on: November 04, 2024, 02:50:46 PM »
A side view:
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