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SOLVED - What car #11 - Il Tempo Gigante
« on: November 04, 2007, 05:54:02 PM »
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Re: What car #11
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2007, 11:20:46 AM »
Well, I'll move this to the Experts section, although I know that at least one of you will be able to tell me what it is right away. But maybe he'll leave it for a day or so to give the others a chance? Or not...  ;D
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Re: What car #11
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2007, 02:21:56 AM »
I remember seeing this somewhere - if I'm not wrong it was built for (an European) movie in the seventies.
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Re: What car #11
« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2007, 08:50:21 AM »
You're not wrong.

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Re: What car #11
« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2007, 10:24:07 AM »
Well, what do you know!
My mother subscribed to Auto Motor und Sport for me to (try and) improve my German. I have about four or five of these left, amongst which was the 28 Sept 1977 issue, and, on page 162 there is a story about the car built for the 'Hintertupfigen Grand Prix'.
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Re: What car #11
« Reply #5 on: November 19, 2007, 12:06:01 PM »
This car is from Pinchcliffe Grand Prix movie, this car is called Il Tempo Gigante (the giant time)...more on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%A5klypa_Grand_Prix
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Re: What car #11
« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2007, 10:22:53 AM »
The original idea of the name of the car was probably "great speed", not "giant time" :) but yes, this is the full scale version of the car that raced in the Norwegian cult puppet movie "Flåklypa Grand Prix" from 1975. It's based on a Cadillac chassis, is road legal, and can be seen on display in an amusement park near Lillehammer, Norway. The English movie title is, quite correctly: "Pinchcliffe Grand Prix". I'll award Mr. Jaray the point for the name of the car - and just because I'm such a nice guy I'll give a point to Pieter as well for providing the nice pic from Auto Motor und Sport (Although I have to say that if you had bothered reading it you would probably have caught the name of the car, which is what this is all about - or, at least, figured out that it was Norwegian

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Re: SOLVED - What car #11 - Il Tempo Gigante
« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2012, 10:40:29 AM »
A rear view of this monstrosity:

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Re: SOLVED - What car #11 - Il Tempo Gigante
« Reply #8 on: October 23, 2015, 03:47:58 PM »
The movie model:
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