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Solved - NEH 1460: Home-built Tornado Typhoon brake - 1962
« on: January 10, 2012, 05:47:38 AM »
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Re: NEH 1460
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2012, 05:23:35 AM »
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Re: NEH 1460
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2012, 06:22:53 AM »
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Re: NEH 1460
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2012, 06:46:26 AM »
Tornado Cars LTD Typhoon Sportbrake from 1960. Apparently a self-built conversion.
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Re: NEH 1460
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2012, 07:20:29 AM »
Quote from: Allemano on January 31, 2012, 06:46:26 AM
Tornado Cars LTD Typhoon Sportbrake from 1960. Apparently a self-built conversion.

That's it, yes,.
I don't know who built it but I have the date as 1962 rather than 1960, although whether that's more accurate or not I don't know!

Here's the un-modified puzzle photo:

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Re: Solved - NEH 1460: Home-built Tornado Typhoon brake - 1962
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2012, 07:29:29 AM »
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Re: Solved - NEH 1460: Home-built Tornado Typhoon brake - 1962
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2012, 07:33:10 AM »
According to some source "Tornado Typhoon was a kit car based on either the Ford Anglia or MG-base, typically an open two-seater roadster body but the Typhoon was also possible to order the Sport Wagon, this hideous thing is from 1960"
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Re: Solved - NEH 1460: Home-built Tornado Typhoon brake - 1962
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2012, 07:36:07 AM »
I guess you meant this factory built shooting brake: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=8880.0
I think it shouldn't be mixed up with the home-built car of this puzzle.
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Re: Solved - NEH 1460: Home-built Tornado Typhoon brake - 1962
« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2012, 07:40:24 AM »
No, I have in HD the very same picture of this post from some swedish webpage that offers this info
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Re: Solved - NEH 1460: Home-built Tornado Typhoon brake - 1962
« Reply #9 on: January 31, 2012, 09:10:32 AM »
That 'site contains plenty of errors.
The only brake that was offered by the manufacturer was the one in the puzzle Allemano pointed you to.
My puzzle is a pure home-built one-off.
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Re: Solved - NEH 1460: Home-built Tornado Typhoon brake - 1962
« Reply #10 on: January 31, 2012, 11:18:26 AM »
I did contact the chap who owns this a while ago for more information but he never replied. You may have noticed the entire rear end is a modified Bond Equipe GT4 rear...  :o
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Re: Solved - NEH 1460: Home-built Tornado Typhoon brake - 1962
« Reply #11 on: February 01, 2012, 05:20:13 AM »
Quote from: barrett on January 31, 2012, 11:18:26 AM
You may have noticed the entire rear end is a modified Bond Equipe GT4 rear...  :o

Now that you mention it, yes.
I thought it looked awfully familiar!
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Re: Solved - NEH 1460: Home-built Tornado Typhoon brake - 1962
« Reply #12 on: February 06, 2012, 11:40:40 AM »
Hmmm.... I just came across these images on a well-known 'guess the car' thread on another forum. Different registration but clearly the same car. You can see the entire roof section is taken from the Bond Equipe. I think it looks much better in this guise. Actually, I think it looks great like that!
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Re: Solved - NEH 1460: Home-built Tornado Typhoon brake - 1962
« Reply #13 on: February 06, 2012, 12:02:04 PM »
Yes, RFO is an 'age-related' re-registration so the PPH plate (dating from May/June 1960) was probably transferred to another car as a personal plate when the puzzle car passed into new ownership!
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Re: Solved - NEH 1460: Home-built Tornado Typhoon brake - 1962
« Reply #14 on: February 06, 2012, 02:07:42 PM »
I found another picture of the car pre-restoration with the estate body and the PPH 'plate. I'm going to try and contact the owner again and see if he knows who built this strange device.
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