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Solved - NEH 1564: MAX lightweight economy sports car
« on: February 20, 2012, 07:41:03 AM »
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Re: NEH 1564
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2012, 05:44:48 AM »
Experts?
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Re: NEH 1564
« Reply #2 on: February 29, 2012, 10:01:13 PM »
Except for the left hand drive, it looks like a copy of a Lola Mk. I.
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Re: NEH 1564
« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2012, 04:17:04 AM »
Quote from: Tackitt on February 29, 2012, 10:01:13 PM
Except for the left hand drive, it looks like a copy of a Lola Mk. I.

No relation to Lola!
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Re: NEH 1564
« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2012, 02:40:07 PM »
BEGRA MK2 ?
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Re: NEH 1564
« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2012, 02:44:54 PM »
Quote from: M630 on March 01, 2012, 02:40:07 PM
BEGRA MK2 ?

No, it's not a Begra.
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Re: NEH 1564
« Reply #6 on: March 12, 2012, 05:32:07 AM »
Professionals?
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Re: NEH 1564
« Reply #7 on: March 14, 2012, 04:51:04 AM »
Bobsy?
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Re: NEH 1564
« Reply #8 on: March 14, 2012, 07:31:20 AM »
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Re: NEH 1564
« Reply #9 on: March 14, 2012, 11:19:24 AM »
Crosley-based?
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Re: NEH 1564
« Reply #10 on: March 14, 2012, 11:43:33 AM »
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Re: NEH 1564
« Reply #11 on: March 30, 2012, 06:26:14 AM »
I think I've seen this car or one like it on the 'net before.
I don't think it's a conventional sports racer but may be electric powered?
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Re: NEH 1564
« Reply #12 on: March 30, 2012, 07:17:16 AM »
Quote from: woodinsight on March 30, 2012, 06:26:14 AM
I don't think it's a conventional sports racer
- It's not.

Quote from: woodinsight on March 30, 2012, 06:26:14 AM
may be electric powered?
-  but it's not that either!
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Re: NEH 1564
« Reply #13 on: March 30, 2012, 07:38:58 AM »
Anything to do with KERS - Kinetic Energy Recovery System?
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Re: NEH 1564
« Reply #14 on: March 30, 2012, 09:13:59 AM »
Quote from: woodinsight on March 30, 2012, 07:38:58 AM
Anything to do with KERS - Kinetic Energy Recovery System?

That's a good question.
Not as far as I know, but its name might intimate otherwise..
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Re: NEH 1564
« Reply #15 on: March 30, 2012, 09:54:28 AM »
The name derives from the hippie tree-hugger rag "Mother Earth News"; and Automotive X Prize. It's a more-or-less home-built car with a Kubota diesel, a Locost frame, multiple bits sourced from a clapped-out Toyota station wagon, and a modified Lola Mark I body. It was inspired by the Progressive Insurance-sponsored  Automotive X Prize, but doesn't really meet the criteria of a car that is can achieve 100 MPG and be suitable for mass production.

The builder is Jack McCornack from Oregon.

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Re: NEH 1564
« Reply #16 on: March 30, 2012, 10:20:05 AM »
That's about the long and the short of it, although some the info differs from what I have - but then the info I have was written by a journalist so it's bound to be wrong..

My info says that its name (MAX) stands for Mother's Automotive EXperiment, and it's a high-mileage (per gallon I assume they mean) lightweight car that has been hand-built by Kinetic Ltd (hence my reply to woodinsight) for whom Jack McCornack works (or even owns maybe?).

As you say it has a 32 bhp Kubota industrial diesel engine and will do 90 mph.  The journo said it was "modelled after Le Mans racers from France", showing perhaps that she knew where Le Mans is situated but little else...

McCornack says this model is a research and development car but interested persons can purchase kits to build vehicles from Mother Earth News Magazine.

So there you are, tree-huggers, if you want a car that looks like it goes but doesn't but at least won't hurt you too much in the wallet, put on that old raincoat, turn up the collar and nip out to buy a copy of Mother Earth News then send off for a kit, although where you're going to get a clapped-out Lola body from I'm not entirely sure...!
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