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Solved - MJW #163 - Keeble K3 Special
« on: December 26, 2010, 01:01:17 PM »
Marque and model for a point
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Re: MJW #163
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2010, 06:14:03 PM »
I wonder if the experts know
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Re: MJW #163
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2011, 04:54:48 AM »
Experts don't seem to know - Pros?
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Re: MJW #163
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2011, 05:11:30 AM »
Is it a one-off creation?
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Re: MJW #163
« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2011, 07:33:04 AM »
It is a "one-off"

A small clue - it was designed in the 1980s and the build had started but was never completed owing to the builder/designer's ill health. He died in 2003.
The car was then finally completed by one of his best friends.
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Re: MJW #163
« Reply #5 on: January 03, 2011, 07:40:16 AM »
French?
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Re: MJW #163
« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2011, 05:25:43 AM »
Apologies Arunas I missed your reply.
Not French.
The original builder had constructed quite a few luxury GT coupes in the past.
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Re: MJW #163
« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2011, 06:20:28 PM »
Is there a Monteverdi connection?
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Re: MJW #163
« Reply #8 on: January 20, 2011, 03:11:30 AM »
Not Monteverdi (and not Swiss)
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Re: MJW #163
« Reply #9 on: January 29, 2011, 02:35:04 AM »
Owing to the lack of any further guesses, time for a clue (or two)

The car is British and the name is two words (the surnames of the constructors who built quite a number of luxury coupes back in the 1960s)
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Re: MJW #163
« Reply #10 on: January 29, 2011, 04:04:28 AM »
Any relations to Gordon Keeble?
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Re: MJW #163
« Reply #11 on: January 29, 2011, 07:06:31 AM »
Quote from: pnegyesi on January 29, 2011, 04:04:28 AM
Any relations to Gordon Keeble?
It is a Gordon Keeble.
Any idea on what the model name may have been?
Locked for you until your next reply.
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Re: MJW #163
« Reply #12 on: January 29, 2011, 07:22:55 AM »
Unbelievable!
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Re: MJW #163
« Reply #13 on: January 29, 2011, 07:37:32 AM »


Jim Keeble's K3 Special
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Re: MJW #163
« Reply #14 on: January 29, 2011, 08:13:53 AM »
Well done Pal - good picture too!

I guess it should be the Keeble K3 (not Gordon Keeble)
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Re: MJW #163
« Reply #15 on: January 29, 2011, 08:16:07 AM »
A back-view that I found today:
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Re: Solved - MJW #163 - Keeble K3 Special
« Reply #16 on: January 29, 2011, 08:57:14 AM »
How I like Autopuzzles!
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Re: Solved - MJW #163 - Keeble K3 Special
« Reply #17 on: January 29, 2011, 09:07:17 AM »
Just to add a little more information -

After production of the Gordon-Keeble car ceased in 1967 in Southampton, Jim Keeble went on to be involved in many different engineering projects.
In the 1980s he designed and started to build a space-framed high performance three-wheeler capable of 125 mph but, due to illness he was unable to complete it. He sadly passed away in 2003.
The K-3 was bequeathed to the Hampshire Industrial & Social History Museum 'Milestones' in Basingstoke, Hampshire.
Jim's great friend Derek Baker eventually completed the car.
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