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SOLVED: Djetset #451 - Tarquin TC Sports
« on: December 05, 2010, 07:47:02 AM »
Do you know what this is for a point?
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Re: Djetset #451
« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2010, 09:54:42 PM »
I'm fairly certain it started life as an Abarth 1100, but that front end is different.  The snout drops more, the normal Abarth 1100's  had a wider grille with lights inside them.  But the rear fenders seem the same, the dimensions seem the same, and the fairing for the driver's head seems the same.  Very odd.  Is it some rebodied Abarth special?

quick edit: here's an Abarth 207A 1100cc.  Not quite the same but so close it leads me to believe the above picture is a derivative?



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Re: Djetset #451
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2010, 03:10:39 PM »
Hi No_b00st, welcome to Auto Puzzles, and good to have you on board.

I can see the similarity with the Abarth you mention, but sadly this one is not the same car.  Don't let that put you off answering this and other puzzles though.  :)
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Re: Djetset #451
« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2010, 09:08:23 PM »
 :P DERP I am quite sure I know what it is now.

Would it be a Lotus 11?  I doubt it's the modern Westfield kit equivalent.  These look like a 99% match.  It can't be that simple though...?



^^Lotus 11 (XI)

edit: crud, that's not it either, the 11's rear fenders are considerably taller.  Hmmm... this is going to bug me till I get it.  Sure looks like an 11 from the front.
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Re: Djetset #451
« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2010, 02:58:27 AM »
It does look like a Lotus 11, but it's not  :-\
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Re: Djetset #451
« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2010, 08:36:16 AM »
A Devin?
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Re: Djetset #451
« Reply #6 on: December 08, 2010, 02:27:23 PM »
Sorry, not a Devin ddyke, but a warm welcome to AutoPuzzles anyway  ;D
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Re: Djetset #451
« Reply #7 on: December 18, 2010, 11:19:50 AM »
Experts...
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Re: Djetset #451
« Reply #8 on: December 18, 2010, 02:18:43 PM »
Is this photo in Australia?
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Re: Djetset #451
« Reply #9 on: December 18, 2010, 02:38:37 PM »
Just found it I think
John Read's Tarquin TC Sports at Adelaide International Raceway in 1976
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Re: Djetset #451
« Reply #10 on: December 19, 2010, 06:35:52 AM »
Well done Woodinsight, you managed to answer your own question before I did!  Another point to you.
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Re: Djetset #451
« Reply #11 on: December 20, 2010, 06:51:17 PM »
Quote from: No_b00st on December 06, 2010, 09:08:23 PM
:P DERP I am quite sure I know what it is now.

Would it be a Lotus 11?  I doubt it's the modern Westfield kit equivalent.  These look like a 99% match.  It can't be that simple though...?



^^Lotus 11 (XI)

edit: crud, that's not it either, the 11's rear fenders are considerably taller.  Hmmm... this is going to bug me till I get it.  Sure looks like an 11 from the front.
I don't know what this is but no Lotus XI was ever built with left hand drive!
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Re: SOLVED: Djetset #451 - Tarquin TC Sports
« Reply #12 on: December 21, 2010, 04:48:55 PM »
Westfield has built some Elevens with LHD I believe, although I'm not 100% sure that this is a Westfield!
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Re: SOLVED: Djetset #451 - Tarquin TC Sports
« Reply #13 on: December 22, 2010, 01:05:26 PM »
There have been approx. 25 different manufacturers of Lotus XI clones, replicas, kits, etc.
I can't tell you what this particular car is without spending a great deal of time on research.
If it was a separate puzzle on the other hand...........
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