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Re: OP #1633
« Reply #25 on: May 28, 2010, 12:48:30 PM »
Quote from: Paul Jaray on May 28, 2010, 12:17:07 PM
Looks like a Maserati...

Race cars of this type and era look a lot alike. This car - not a Maserati - bears a strong resemblance to the Lotus Allemano named previously. In fact, if one were to see them side by side  ;) an untrained eye might think they were the same car, or at least from the same designer's pen. But they are not.
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Re: OP #1633
« Reply #26 on: May 28, 2010, 01:07:36 PM »
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on May 28, 2010, 04:54:21 AM
Yes!

Damn it! I really need a vacation.

Not from the US - From our neighbor to the North.
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Re: OP #1633
« Reply #27 on: May 29, 2010, 04:19:18 AM »
A Cooper "Monaco"? (still don't know if it's from Canada, though)
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Re: OP #1633
« Reply #28 on: May 29, 2010, 04:22:29 AM »
Not that car.
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Re: OP #1633
« Reply #29 on: May 29, 2010, 05:15:56 AM »
The first Cooper Monaco mated to a Chevy engine underwent that transformation in 1964, IIRC, so that's too new.

This was the last racer from this designer's drawing board for a very long time. He went on to engineer very different items.
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Re: OP #1633
« Reply #30 on: May 29, 2010, 05:20:26 AM »
Do forename and surname of this person start with the same character?
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Re: OP #1633
« Reply #31 on: May 29, 2010, 05:29:04 AM »
No sir.
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Re: OP #1633
« Reply #32 on: May 29, 2010, 05:48:39 AM »
It could be the Sadler MK V..
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Re: OP #1633
« Reply #33 on: May 29, 2010, 06:23:14 AM »
It is!

Conceived and built in late 1960, the MK 5 was Bill Sadler's first rear mid-engined racer. Comstock Racing founder Chuck Rathgeb spied the car in Sadler's shop, and commissioned him to build a second example, and put up the money to sponsor both in the 1961 season. Seeing the compromises to his quality of life - his wife had left him during his 8-year building and racing stint, and citing differences with Rathgeb, Sadler closed up shop, and went back to work at Westinghouse as an electrical engineer. Moving to the US, he eared a master's degree in electrical engineering from MIT in 1966. Only many years later did Sadler return to cars, building a Formula V for himself, and participating in the vintage racing community.

Here's a shot of Sadler MkV reproduction (left) with a Lotus 19.

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Re: OP #1633
« Reply #34 on: May 29, 2010, 06:27:06 AM »
And a fully finished MK5. The resemblance to the Lotus is even stronger here - they even share a number!

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Re: OP #1633 - Sadler MK V
« Reply #35 on: May 29, 2010, 06:56:46 AM »
I like how he arranged the exhaust pipes.

The engineers of the Cooper Monaco did it later quite similar:




I'm always wondering about the two seat configuration since I've never seen those cars co-piloted.
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Re: OP #1633 - Sadler MK V
« Reply #36 on: May 29, 2010, 07:14:42 AM »
From the 'great minds think alike' department.
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Re: OP #1633 - Sadler MK V
« Reply #37 on: May 29, 2010, 08:16:51 AM »
Quote from: Allemano on May 29, 2010, 06:56:46 AM
I'm always wondering about the two seat configuration since I've never seen those cars co-piloted.

That was done to give girls a ride.
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Re: OP #1633 - Sadler MK V
« Reply #38 on: May 29, 2010, 08:22:28 AM »
Aaha!  :eyebrow:
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