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Solved: PN #364 -- Volhist GL-40
« on: September 18, 2012, 07:02:00 AM »
Please identify this car for a point
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Re: PN #364
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2012, 05:40:44 AM »
Experts?
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Re: PN #364
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2012, 08:19:21 AM »
Professionals?
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Re: PN #364
« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2012, 09:51:03 AM »
Photo from Japan?
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Re: PN #364
« Reply #4 on: October 02, 2012, 10:15:48 AM »
no
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Re: PN #364
« Reply #5 on: October 02, 2012, 01:01:01 PM »
American Formula B?

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Re: PN #364
« Reply #6 on: October 02, 2012, 01:17:16 PM »
no
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Re: PN #364
« Reply #7 on: October 02, 2012, 01:22:12 PM »
Mexican? The background reminds me of the last turn of a Mexico Grand Prix circuit.

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Re: PN #364
« Reply #8 on: October 03, 2012, 05:13:55 AM »
no
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Re: PN #364
« Reply #9 on: October 16, 2012, 01:55:26 AM »
An Estonia from the peace and friendship cup in the USSR

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Re: PN #364
« Reply #10 on: October 16, 2012, 03:36:40 AM »
No
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Re: PN #364
« Reply #11 on: October 16, 2012, 07:07:41 PM »
BMW hillclimb car?

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Re: PN #364
« Reply #12 on: October 17, 2012, 02:50:59 AM »
Not bmw, nor hillclimb
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Re: PN #364
« Reply #13 on: October 19, 2012, 05:29:00 PM »
It bears a resemblance to a Lola but I know it is not. Could be a copy of some sort. It isn't eastern European, is it?

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Re: PN #364
« Reply #14 on: October 21, 2012, 03:49:54 AM »
Sort of East Europe (depending on definition)
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Re: PN #364
« Reply #15 on: November 21, 2012, 03:00:06 AM »
Formula Junior?

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Re: PN #364
« Reply #16 on: November 21, 2012, 03:32:35 AM »
looks like one, isn't it? No, not Formula Jr just a pretender
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Re: PN #364
« Reply #17 on: November 21, 2012, 06:42:34 AM »
Is this one of the few British Kit Cars built to look like old racers?
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Re: PN #364
« Reply #18 on: November 21, 2012, 08:50:21 AM »
It is Not from uk
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Re: PN #364
« Reply #19 on: November 21, 2012, 09:54:53 AM »
Perhaps it's a Melkus F3 from c.1967?

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Re: PN #364
« Reply #20 on: November 21, 2012, 09:58:20 AM »
much younger and not from gdr
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Re: PN #364
« Reply #21 on: November 21, 2012, 11:49:16 AM »
A Polish RAK F3 c.1961?

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Re: PN #364
« Reply #22 on: November 21, 2012, 12:04:23 PM »
I said younger :) So it was made later than 1967 :) And not in Poland
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Re: PN #364
« Reply #23 on: November 21, 2012, 12:48:18 PM »
I said younger :) So it was made later than 1967 :) And not in Poland
Apologies - brain fade :doh:
I'll keep searching but first I have to pin down the country - Czechoslovakia?

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Re: PN #364
« Reply #24 on: November 21, 2012, 12:57:17 PM »
Czechoslovakia was gone when this car was built. But it wasn't built in either CZ or SK
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