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Re: Puzzle #1030
« Reply #25 on: December 17, 2008, 04:36:13 AM »
Hmmm... you mean, besides the 356 and the Bug, they could, for instance, come from Subaru or something?
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Re: Puzzle #1030
« Reply #26 on: December 17, 2008, 07:32:41 AM »
No Subarus...
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Re: Puzzle #1030
« Reply #27 on: December 17, 2008, 07:47:41 AM »
Chevrolet Corvair again?

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Re: Puzzle #1030
« Reply #28 on: December 17, 2008, 08:27:54 AM »
Yes - some examples used Corvair engines.
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Re: Puzzle #1030
« Reply #29 on: December 17, 2008, 10:56:10 AM »
Oh. After this night I thought the Subaru suggestion was stupid. Corvair makes more sense though!
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Re: Puzzle #1030
« Reply #30 on: December 19, 2008, 02:56:07 AM »
At the time this car made its debut, a Subaru engine would have been decidedly too wimpy.
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Re: Puzzle #1030
« Reply #31 on: December 30, 2008, 11:35:22 AM »
vroom!
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Re: Puzzle #1030
« Reply #32 on: December 30, 2008, 03:15:06 PM »
I just thought, 'hey, this should be googleable' - and it was.

This appears to be the 1963/4 Sabel SR Mk I prototype, serial number 001. Features Porsche 356 lightweight aluminium drum brakes and suspension pieces.

Not my piece of pie, really, this puzzle, but if you can google it, well... ;)
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Re: Puzzle #1030 - Solved! Sabel SR Mk I
« Reply #33 on: December 30, 2008, 03:19:46 PM »
That's it!
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Solved - NEH 2376: Porsche 356-engined sports racer by John Sabel
« Reply #34 on: January 11, 2013, 07:41:21 AM »
What's this, who built it, what is it based on and what powers it - for 1 point?:

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Re: NEH 2376
« Reply #35 on: January 14, 2013, 12:47:05 AM »
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Re: NEH 2376
« Reply #36 on: January 18, 2013, 05:46:14 AM »
Experts?
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Re: NEH 2376
« Reply #37 on: January 18, 2013, 11:18:49 AM »
Imp-based?

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Re: NEH 2376
« Reply #38 on: January 18, 2013, 12:52:29 PM »
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Re: NEH 2376
« Reply #39 on: January 19, 2013, 07:31:31 PM »
Porsche base?

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Re: NEH 2376
« Reply #40 on: January 19, 2013, 07:42:46 PM »
Porsche base?

Not Porsche-based, but it does have a Porsche engine.
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Re: NEH 2376
« Reply #41 on: January 20, 2013, 07:34:28 PM »
Pooper - a Porsche engined Cooper "Bobtail"
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Re: NEH 2376
« Reply #42 on: January 20, 2013, 08:41:45 PM »
1959 Devin D VW/Porsche

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Re: NEH 2376
« Reply #43 on: January 21, 2013, 05:20:25 AM »
Pooper - a Porsche engined Cooper "Bobtail"

Not that..

1959 Devin D VW/Porsche

..and it has nothing at all to do with Devin AFAIK.
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Re: NEH 2376
« Reply #44 on: January 21, 2013, 10:46:39 AM »
It also looks like a Bobsy SR3

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Re: NEH 2376
« Reply #45 on: January 21, 2013, 01:43:41 PM »
It also looks like a Bobsy SR3

..but it isn't one!
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Re: NEH 2376
« Reply #46 on: January 22, 2013, 03:27:26 AM »
It looks like one of John Sabel's ASR sports racers from the 60's, based on VW Beetle floorpan, The MK3 had a Kamm tail, so i'll guess a MK 1


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Re: NEH 2376
« Reply #47 on: January 22, 2013, 04:52:11 AM »
Yes, it's a product of John Sabel!

I only found it in one place, with the accompanying story:

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I went to Maryland just outside of DC to a shop where a LOT of cool cars resided and a man by the name of John Sable was making frames and f/g bodies for shortened VW pans. I bought it all with saved and borrowed money in '66 (maybe, I forget...it was '65-'67 sometime and if it was while I was working for Penske Racing, as I suspect, it would have been '66) The scissors jack and the 4-way lug wrench was the beginning of becoming a true tool junkie, an on-going addiction 45 years later.
The car above eventually used a 356 motor with a VW transaxle from the donor Beetle, but was sold before long to race one of my $500 Speedsters. I was in art school so I made the print of this picture my girlfriend at the time (eventually my ex-wife) took and made the changes desired with a pen. It wound up with Corvette taillights, then Cortina taillights on a Kamm rear, TR gauges, a SAAB rear glass laid down as a low aero windscreen and personally vacuum-formed Lexan headlight covers, widened VW wheels on VW drums (hillclimbs required very little braking..duh) There is a website for Sable cars now. I wish I had that one back.
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Re: Solved - NEH 2376: Porsche 3556-engined sports racer by John Sabel
« Reply #48 on: January 22, 2013, 05:14:30 AM »
I believe this is a repost of Otto's #1030......

Here's a view of an unrestored Sabel Mk 1 -

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Re: Solved - NEH 2376: Porsche 3556-engined sports racer by John Sabel
« Reply #49 on: January 22, 2013, 05:59:38 AM »
I believe this is a repost of Otto's #1030......

Here's a view of an unrestored Sabel Mk 1 -

Thanks woodinsight.
I think you're right, hence I've merged it.
Unfortunately I used the incorrect spelling of 'Sabel' in my Search (as per the previous Owner's post) hence it didn't show...
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