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SOLVED: Djetset #560 - Viking Cars Viking 2+2
« on: October 25, 2011, 03:13:14 AM »
Please excuse the awful photo quality, but this was taken from a magazine with very poor-quality images.  

Anyway, for a point, can you name this car? (there are two views to make it easier!).
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Re: Djetset #560
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2011, 02:10:51 PM »
Do the Experts have the foggiest idea?
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Re: Djetset #560
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2011, 04:07:17 PM »
Do the Pros have a clear view of this car?
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Re: Djetset #560
« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2011, 12:01:30 AM »
Is it a shortened Audi 80?

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Re: Djetset #560
« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2011, 05:31:57 AM »
Anything to do with Dutton?
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Re: Djetset #560
« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2011, 06:42:49 AM »
No connections that I know of with either Audi or Dutton.
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Re: Djetset #560
« Reply #6 on: December 15, 2011, 02:39:01 PM »
British?

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Re: Djetset #560
« Reply #7 on: December 15, 2011, 03:09:24 PM »
As an Englishman I am embarrassed to say yes, sadly it is British! :-\
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Re: Djetset #560
« Reply #8 on: December 15, 2011, 03:11:10 PM »
Ford-based?

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Re: Djetset #560
« Reply #9 on: December 15, 2011, 03:12:05 PM »
Yes  ;)
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Re: Djetset #560
« Reply #10 on: December 15, 2011, 03:40:40 PM »
Could it be Astron?

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Re: Djetset #560
« Reply #11 on: December 15, 2011, 03:49:53 PM »
It could be an Astron, but it's not  :P
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Re: Djetset #560
« Reply #12 on: December 23, 2011, 05:03:20 AM »
vaguely it resembles the Razzo from ZA, but as you said it's British...

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Re: Djetset #560
« Reply #13 on: December 23, 2011, 05:58:11 AM »
I see your point with the Razzo, but this one is British, so not that I'm afraid!
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Re: Djetset #560
« Reply #14 on: December 29, 2011, 03:08:19 PM »
Could this be a very obscure Sintera from 1995?

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Re: Djetset #560
« Reply #15 on: December 29, 2011, 03:14:00 PM »
Sorry but not a Sintera.
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Re: Djetset #560
« Reply #16 on: February 17, 2012, 02:20:44 PM »
Next stop BH!
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Re: Djetset #560
« Reply #17 on: February 21, 2012, 06:47:03 AM »
And in to BH it goes...
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Re: Djetset #560
« Reply #18 on: March 18, 2012, 03:15:06 PM »
Any relation to the Quantum 2+2?

I also thought about an early-80s Cavallo Estivo but that wasn't Ford based.

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Re: Djetset #560
« Reply #19 on: March 18, 2012, 03:28:08 PM »
Could it be a Viking, a 2+2 built in 1986-87 by Viking Cars, Thundersley?

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Re: Djetset #560
« Reply #20 on: March 19, 2012, 12:56:34 PM »
Yes it is the Viking. Well done PJ, another point to you.

I'm not sure if a certain new book may have helped here, as this had originally been left out, and I filled in this gap just before publication. ;)
« Last Edit: March 19, 2012, 01:07:47 PM by Djetset »
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Re: SOLVED: Djetset #560 - Viking Cars Viking 2+2
« Reply #21 on: March 19, 2012, 03:05:52 PM »
Does somebody (maybe Quiller) have a better photo of this car.
A certain new book ;) only shows this car in an unfunished state.
Thanks for putting this car back on the map (and in this book), it was completely unknown to me.

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Re: SOLVED: Djetset #560 - Viking Cars Viking 2+2
« Reply #22 on: March 19, 2012, 03:15:19 PM »
I took this photo on my Blackberry (which I now know has a poor-quality lens, unlike my earlier model) from an advert for the Viking in an old kit car magazine. 

I will try and find the magazine again (may take a while) and get a better photo of the car.  I've never seen any other images of this sorry-looking car though.
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Re: SOLVED: Djetset #560 - Viking Cars Viking 2+2
« Reply #23 on: March 19, 2012, 03:32:22 PM »
Yes it is the Viking. Well done PJ, another point to you.

I'm not sure if a certain new book may have helped here, as this had originally been left out, and I filled in this gap just before publication. ;)
that is exactly where I found it...great, great book!