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Name This Race Car - Solved! 1937 Sparks "Big Six" Thorne-Sparks Race Car
« on: August 22, 2007, 06:12:11 AM »
Name This Race Car!
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Re: Name This Race Car - 22 Aug 2007
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2007, 06:45:52 AM »
Maserati 8C?
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Re: Name This Race Car - 22 Aug 2007
« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2007, 07:18:28 PM »
Talbot?


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Re: Name This Race Car - 22 Aug 2007
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2007, 05:56:51 AM »
None of the above.
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Re: Name This Race Car - 22 Aug 2007
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2007, 07:43:01 AM »
Derby-Maserati?
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Re: Name This Race Car - 22 Aug 2007
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2007, 09:49:02 AM »
Quote from: D-type on August 23, 2007, 07:43:01 AM
Derby-Maserati?
It won't be that: it was front-drive with swing-axles suspension! OK for a Track car, but quite interesting at Oulton Park where I saw it win its only race.
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Re: Name This Race Car - 22 Aug 2007
« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2007, 05:35:53 AM »
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Re: Name This Race Car - 22 Aug 2007
« Reply #7 on: August 25, 2007, 10:04:00 AM »
The twin-cam engine in this car gave it record-breaking performance without it ever having run on a dynamometer.
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Re: Name This Race Car - 22 Aug 2007
« Reply #8 on: October 08, 2007, 08:27:06 AM »
From the USofA?
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Re: Name This Race Car - 22 Aug 2007
« Reply #9 on: October 08, 2007, 12:37:42 PM »
Yep.
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Re: Name This Race Car - 22 Aug 2007
« Reply #10 on: October 08, 2007, 02:48:12 PM »
1939 Thorne Engineering Special?  Driven by Jimmy Snydeer at Indy, it was the first car to average over 130 mph in qualifying, if that's what it is...I only have a small picture of the car.


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Re: Name This Race Car - 22 Aug 2007
« Reply #11 on: October 08, 2007, 04:51:27 PM »
Why suffer with a little picture when you can purchase the life-sized 3D version? I imagine that it's not cheap.

http://www.finecars.cc/en/detail/car/11658/index.html?no_cache=1&cHash=6e18ff52ee
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Re: Name This Race Car - 22 Aug 2007
« Reply #12 on: October 09, 2007, 06:45:33 AM »
Quote from: Tifosi on October 08, 2007, 02:48:12 PM
1939 Thorne Engineering Special?  Driven by Jimmy Snydeer at Indy, it was the first car to average over 130 mph in qualifying, if that's what it is...I only have a small picture of the car.


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