SOLVED: Djetset #560 - Viking Cars Viking 2+2

Djetset · 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!).

Djetset · November 17, 2011, 02:10:51 PM

Do the Experts have the foggiest idea?

Djetset · December 14, 2011, 04:07:17 PM

Do the Pros have a clear view of this car?

SeaLion · December 15, 2011, 12:01:30 AM

Is it a shortened Audi 80?

Carnut · December 15, 2011, 05:31:57 AM

Anything to do with Dutton?

Djetset · December 15, 2011, 06:42:49 AM

No connections that I know of with either Audi or Dutton.

Arunas · December 15, 2011, 02:39:01 PM

British?

Djetset · December 15, 2011, 03:09:24 PM

As an Englishman I am embarrassed to say yes, sadly it is British! $:-\$

Arunas · December 15, 2011, 03:11:10 PM

Ford-based?

Djetset · December 15, 2011, 03:12:05 PM

Yes

Arunas · December 15, 2011, 03:40:40 PM

Could it be Astron?

Djetset · December 15, 2011, 03:49:53 PM

It could be an Astron, but it's not

Allemano · December 23, 2011, 05:03:20 AM

vaguely it resembles the Razzo from ZA, but as you said it's British...

Djetset · 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!

Arunas · December 29, 2011, 03:08:19 PM

Could this be a very obscure Sintera from 1995?

Djetset · December 29, 2011, 03:14:00 PM

Sorry but not a Sintera.

Djetset · February 17, 2012, 02:20:44 PM

Next stop BH!

Djetset · February 21, 2012, 06:47:03 AM

And in to BH it goes...

Sandie · 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.

Paul Jaray · March 18, 2012, 03:28:08 PM

Could it be a Viking, a 2+2 built in 1986-87 by Viking Cars, Thundersley?

Djetset · 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.

autospeurder · 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.

Djetset · 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.

Paul Jaray · March 19, 2012, 03:32:22 PM

Quote from: Djetset 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.

that is exactly where I found it...great, great book!

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SOLVED: Djetset #560 - Viking Cars Viking 2+2