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Q295 - solved - Killeen K4
« on: February 13, 2009, 02:30:45 PM »
What's the name and model designation of this car?

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Re: Q295
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2009, 06:32:53 PM »
Expert noses?

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Re: Q295
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2009, 07:41:01 PM »
Related to Egon Brütsch? Has an air of Burgfalke/ Victoria Spatz about it.

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Re: Q295
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2009, 01:57:35 PM »
Related to Egon Brütsch? Has an air of Burgfalke/ Victoria Spatz about it.

There is one way (that I'm aware of) that this car is related to Brütsch - but it's not a Brütsch

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Re: Q295
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2009, 01:59:38 PM »
German?

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Re: Q295
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2009, 02:03:49 PM »

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Re: Q295
« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2009, 02:05:36 PM »
European?

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Re: Q295
« Reply #7 on: March 11, 2009, 08:06:04 PM »

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Re: Q295
« Reply #8 on: March 12, 2009, 01:28:42 AM »
British?

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Re: Q295
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Re: Q295
« Reply #10 on: March 12, 2009, 03:07:43 PM »
Frazer Nash project, perhaps?
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Re: Q295
« Reply #11 on: March 12, 2009, 03:28:35 PM »
I knew I had seen it somewhere. This car is K4 designed by Tom Killeen in 1959/1960  ;)

It may has never been built.

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Re: Q295
« Reply #12 on: March 12, 2009, 04:45:06 PM »
I knew I had seen it somewhere. This car is K4 designed by Tom Killeen in 1959/1960  ;)

It may has never been built.

Well done sir! A well deserved point.

And do you know the connection between Killeen and Brutsch?

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Re: Q295 - solved - Killeen K4
« Reply #13 on: March 12, 2009, 04:49:08 PM »
My source has no word about Brutsch  :)

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Re: Q295 - solved - Killeen K4
« Reply #14 on: March 13, 2009, 08:42:51 AM »
The connection is that they were both early monocoques. Brutsch made an entirely glassfibre monocoque in the early 1950s (with predictable results ending in a court action) while Tom Killeen claimed to make the first-ever monocoque design (long before the K4)