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Puzzle #1782 - RQ (Robert Quelch) Jaguar-based Custom
« on: November 12, 2010, 03:26:36 AM »
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Re: Puzzle #1782
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2010, 04:48:45 AM »
Wow!
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Re: Puzzle #1782
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2010, 05:11:49 AM »
Wow!
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Re: Puzzle #1782
« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2010, 05:11:16 AM »
Time for the Experts to have a go.
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Re: Puzzle #1782
« Reply #4 on: November 27, 2010, 05:45:26 AM »
Not even one guess?  :-\

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Re: Puzzle #1782
« Reply #5 on: November 27, 2010, 06:53:49 AM »
It's the RQ built by Australian Robert Quelch. More pics and info follow soon..
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Re: Puzzle #1782
« Reply #6 on: November 27, 2010, 07:09:30 AM »
It's a Jaguar powered special built from the scratch by Robert Quelch from 1964 to 1974. The wheels and the whole interior incl. seats and steering wheel were made by him. The overall styling refers to cars of the sixties like period Maserati racing cars. The car is 40" high same as the GT40. Visibility is poor due to the height of the XK engine. The overall styling is very much a product of the 1960s a little like the racing Maserati of that time. The number plate was picked out by staff at the local motor registry office and kept for this car, it wasnt Bobs idea it just happened when they found out about what type of car was to be registered. The gull wing doors are hydraulically operated. It took him 700 hrs to get them work perfectly.















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Re: Puzzle #1782
« Reply #7 on: November 27, 2010, 07:54:26 AM »
Nothing more I can add - nicely done!
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Re: Puzzle #1782 - RQ (Robert Quelch) Jaguar-based Custom
« Reply #8 on: November 27, 2010, 03:34:20 PM »
...'cept, totally bitchin' ride
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Re: Puzzle #1782 - RQ (Robert Quelch) Jaguar-based Custom
« Reply #9 on: November 28, 2010, 05:42:50 PM »
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on November 27, 2010, 03:34:20 PM
...'cept, totally bitchin' ride


Couldn't agree more, and those handmade wheels are things of beauty!
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Re: Puzzle #1782 - RQ (Robert Quelch) Jaguar-based Custom
« Reply #10 on: July 21, 2011, 02:51:24 AM »
I have seen and photographed this car some years back in a shed northern NSW left with flat tyres etc.
moulds for wheels falling apart
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Re: Puzzle #1782 - RQ (Robert Quelch) Jaguar-based Custom
« Reply #11 on: July 21, 2011, 02:53:31 AM »
Do you still have these pics? It may be a sad sight, though..  :-\
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Re: Puzzle #1782 - RQ (Robert Quelch) Jaguar-based Custom
« Reply #12 on: July 23, 2011, 06:09:39 AM »
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I have seen and photographed this car some years back in a shed northern NSW left with flat tyres etc.
moulds for wheels falling apart
terry

IŽd like to see them, too!
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