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Title: Solved - NEH 652: Mini Hatchback designed by Marcos for Autocars Israel 1969
Post by: Carnut on August 13, 2010, 07:31:39 PM
1 point for this car's correct identification:
Title: Re: NEH 652
Post by: DeAutogids on August 16, 2010, 10:43:42 AM
 :lurk: :lurk:
Title: Re: NEH 652
Post by: Carnut on September 01, 2010, 07:38:52 AM
Have a feeling some Experts know...
Title: Re: NEH 652
Post by: barrett on September 01, 2010, 10:21:57 AM
This is a prototype of a Mini-based GRP car built by Marcos in 1969, under the direction of BLMC, for a proposed new car to be built in Israel by Autocars. After 4 prototypes were built, the project was cancelled and BLMC sold it's stake in Autocars to Rom Carmel.
Title: Re: NEH 652
Post by: Carnut on September 01, 2010, 11:23:24 AM
That's about the long and the short of it, yes!
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 652: Mini Estate designed by Marcos for Autocars Israel 1969
Post by: Oswald on September 01, 2010, 02:37:54 PM
This is not the estate, but the later hatchback version.
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 652: Mini Estate designed by Marcos for Autocars Israel 1969
Post by: Carnut on September 01, 2010, 06:08:27 PM
Quote from: Oswald on September 01, 2010, 02:37:54 PM
This is not the estate, but the later hatchback version.

Yes, that's technically right.
4 prototypes were built on the Mini Estate platform, which is why it got that heading.
Only 3 of them were actually estate cars with the puzzle car being the 4th, a hatchback.
The hatchback design was apparently sold on to a firm in America who made an electric-engined variant of it.
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 652: Mini Hatchback designed by Marcos for Autocars Israel 1969
Post by: barrett on September 02, 2010, 10:11:15 AM
Here's the estate version, for the curious