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Full name of this car for a point please.
A car is for life, not just for Christmas.

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Re: Djetset #601
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2012, 01:48:20 PM »
Ariel Atom?

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Re: Djetset #601
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2012, 05:41:03 PM »
No, not an Ariel Atom.
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Re: Djetset #601
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2012, 02:25:38 PM »
On the up...
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Re: Djetset #601
« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2012, 02:46:09 PM »
Subaru-powered SDR V-Storm?

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Re: Djetset #601
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2012, 04:12:39 PM »
Not an SDR V-Storm.
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Re: Djetset #601
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2012, 04:27:31 PM »
Wrightspeed X1 Electric?

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Re: Djetset #601
« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2012, 05:41:57 PM »
Not Wrightspeed.
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Re: Djetset #601
« Reply #8 on: October 18, 2012, 06:10:02 PM »
Hmm it is running very skinny tyres for a modern kit car, and it looks like a bike engine as well.

It is still British though?
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Re: Djetset #601
« Reply #9 on: October 18, 2012, 06:32:23 PM »
Yes, it is British.
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Re: Djetset #601
« Reply #10 on: November 13, 2012, 06:59:50 AM »
Climbing up the scaffolding again.
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Re: Djetset #601
« Reply #11 on: November 13, 2012, 07:01:51 AM »
Lightweight Sports Car built by Coventry University.
I suppose the picture shows the car at NEC show in Birmingham, 1996.
Builders: John K. Owen, C.S. Porter, and S.J. Saunders.
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Re: Djetset #601
« Reply #12 on: November 13, 2012, 07:05:10 AM »
Spot on!  Simon Saunders was a lecturer at Coventry University ansd led this project, which evolved into the now famous Aerial Atom  Well done, another point to you.
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