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Barrett's #342 - Colin Rule's half-scale 'Healey' Junior 3000
« on: October 30, 2012, 09:00:59 PM »
Not quite what it seems? For a point, please tell me what this is and who is responsible for its creation

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Re: Barrett's #342
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2012, 10:47:33 AM »
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Re: Barrett's #342
« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2012, 11:44:48 AM »
Is it perhaps a Cavaliere 3000 made by CRD, Port Charlotte, Florida?
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Re: Barrett's #342
« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2012, 12:54:58 PM »
Not that

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Re: Barrett's #342
« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2012, 01:23:15 PM »
Possibly Sebring 5000 by Classic Roadsters? I can imagine one turned out this nicely, but this would be the most tasteful of the ones that I've seen.

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Re: Barrett's #342
« Reply #5 on: November 10, 2012, 03:26:23 PM »
Not that either...

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Re: Barrett's #342
« Reply #6 on: November 10, 2012, 03:46:15 PM »
is from Usa?
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Re: Barrett's #342
« Reply #7 on: November 11, 2012, 02:04:10 AM »
Belgium origin judging by the plates
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Re: Barrett's #342
« Reply #8 on: November 11, 2012, 06:18:50 AM »
Not from the USA or Belgium

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Re: Barrett's #342
« Reply #9 on: November 11, 2012, 09:42:13 AM »
From South Africa?
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Re: Barrett's #342
« Reply #10 on: November 11, 2012, 06:46:47 PM »
Haldane?
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Re: Barrett's #342
« Reply #11 on: November 12, 2012, 03:52:45 AM »
Funny one, this. It's a replica of John Chatham's infamous Big Healey racer, but... in a 1:2 scale. The guy who built it is Colin Rule from Australia. It uses an electric motor but when you open the bonnet you'd swear there's a full working inline-6 under the bonnet, too. The detail is really amazing. Mr. Rule built several more. Unforunately he's not allowed to use the Healey name, so he calls them Junior 3000's.

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Re: Barrett's #342
« Reply #12 on: November 12, 2012, 05:41:14 AM »
Great puzzle!   :applause:

They look full size!
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Re: Barrett's #342
« Reply #13 on: November 20, 2012, 07:00:04 AM »
Correct! It really does look like a full size car at first glance, but of course once you know....

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For a point, who made this and where, and remember that this is AutoPuzzles, so things are not always as they might seem  ;)
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« Reply #15 on: June 19, 2019, 06:22:44 PM »
No Rookie responses, so up to the Experts...
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« Reply #16 on: June 20, 2019, 04:40:34 AM »
Well someone has to point out that, whatever it is, it's pretending to be David Dixon's ex-works A-H 3000 registration DD300.
That actually looked like:
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Re: Djetset 970
« Reply #17 on: June 20, 2019, 06:08:55 AM »
This is a half scale Austin Healey made by Australian Colin Rule around 2000

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Re: Djetset 970
« Reply #18 on: June 25, 2019, 05:02:14 PM »
This is a half scale Austin Healey made by Australian Colin Rule around 2000
Spot on, and sorry for the slow response; exceptionally busy at the moment. Here's another photo of this half-scale electric Austin-Healey to give you a sense of its size. Another point to you.
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Re: Barrett's #342 - Colin Rule's half-scale 'Healey' Junior 3000
« Reply #19 on: June 26, 2019, 03:07:58 PM »
Merged.
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