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SOLVED: Djetset #521 - Road & Track XK120-based coupe
« on: May 23, 2011, 05:24:04 PM »
I can not find this one on a search, but I'd be surprised if it hasn't been featured before.

If it is a re-post I will change the image, but assuming it's not, a full and detailed answer to gain a point please.
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Re: Djetset #521
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2011, 06:37:42 PM »
I expected more activity for this one, but nothing so far, so up a level.
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Re: Djetset #521
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2011, 02:51:54 AM »
I cannot find this particular Victress Lemans coupe...using google(I waste my #@#%%$ time). So I will guess this to be a Strother MacMinn LeMans Coupe or possibly a Briggs Cunningham version. Either way, hopefully someone else has the resource that you used for this car. Hopefully, least been able to point others in the right direction..to solving this puzzle.

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Re: Djetset #521
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2011, 03:06:19 AM »
(Slightly) close-ish, but no cigar! ^-^
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Re: Djetset #521
« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2011, 05:50:42 AM »
ockelbo?

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Re: Djetset #521
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2011, 11:45:43 AM »
John Bond 1960 ?

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Re: Djetset #521
« Reply #6 on: June 14, 2011, 05:49:58 PM »
None of the above so far.
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Re: Djetset #521
« Reply #7 on: June 14, 2011, 09:59:10 PM »
I have looked for this car on the internet..using a keyword Victress. I have not found this car..so this leads me to believe that your particular puzzle car is not under the name or base model name of Victress. If this is the case..I do not like fabricators who build cars & do not acknowledge the base model or claim that is entirely from them. Please tell me if this car can be found on the internet using a keyword of Victress..to pull this car up? :)
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Re: Djetset #521
« Reply #8 on: June 15, 2011, 02:10:47 AM »
It's not a Victress, and not taken from the internet.
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Re: Djetset #521
« Reply #9 on: June 22, 2011, 07:36:37 AM »
MacMinn's Lemans Coupe ?

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Re: Djetset #521
« Reply #10 on: June 22, 2011, 07:37:21 AM »
Not MacMinn's.
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Re: Djetset #521
« Reply #11 on: June 22, 2011, 08:28:36 AM »
German ?

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Re: Djetset #521
« Reply #12 on: June 22, 2011, 08:30:40 AM »
Nein!
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Re: Djetset #521
« Reply #13 on: June 22, 2011, 03:24:46 PM »
There is one  " D " on the trailer   ???

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Re: Djetset #521
« Reply #14 on: June 22, 2011, 03:59:54 PM »
Panhard-based?

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Re: Djetset #521
« Reply #15 on: June 22, 2011, 04:33:07 PM »
Not Panhard-based, and although the car in the photo might be registered in Germany, it is not German.
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Re: Djetset #521
« Reply #16 on: June 23, 2011, 02:44:48 AM »
R&T made body c late 1950's fitted to Jaguar XK120 chassis, engine is fitted with 4 SU carbs and the car survives in Europe.
They may have made more than 1 body
I will provide more details when I get home
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Re: Djetset #521
« Reply #17 on: July 28, 2011, 05:02:36 PM »
Well done Terry, it is Road and Track magazine's XK120-based coupe.  Another point to you, and any further information you have will be most welcome.
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Re: SOLVED: Djetset #521 - Road & Track XK120-based coupe
« Reply #18 on: July 29, 2011, 04:43:42 AM »
But it looks like a repost to me (http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=11021.0) Although it is in a slightly different guise here, it is the same car, isn't it?
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Re: SOLVED: Djetset #521 - Road & Track XK120-based coupe
« Reply #19 on: July 29, 2011, 04:45:41 AM »
I understand that more than one version was made, and each one differed slightly to the other.
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Re: SOLVED: Djetset #521 - Road & Track XK120-based coupe
« Reply #20 on: July 29, 2011, 04:54:27 AM »
Anyway, I believe that SACO ( his Strother Mc Minn and John  Bond replies) was right and found it first. He should have the point.

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Re: SOLVED: Djetset #521 - Road & Track XK120-based coupe
« Reply #21 on: July 29, 2011, 05:06:15 AM »
This one is Jaguar XK120 based, thus different. I guess Djetset decided right!

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Re: SOLVED: Djetset #521 - Road & Track XK120-based coupe
« Reply #22 on: July 29, 2011, 06:28:29 AM »
Ray - no links!

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Re: SOLVED: Djetset #521 - Road & Track XK120-based coupe
« Reply #23 on: July 29, 2011, 07:08:22 AM »
Sure, but here is what it says on the main page (and not "no links here, please"):
Solved AutoPuzzles
The library of esoteric automobiles. Please regale us with info about these cars.


I wondered before why links should be allowed in the solved puzzles and not in the others, but that's what it says.
Still, no problem with me if we want to change this.
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Re: SOLVED: Djetset #521 - Road & Track XK120-based coupe
« Reply #24 on: July 29, 2011, 09:11:30 AM »
As for Djetset decision, I abide about the point. But the replies by SACO were correct enough, even if uncomplete, so maybe you should have locked it for him as the habit goes.
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