Puzzle #1030 - Solved! Sabel SR Mk I

[Joao Gois]

Hmmm... you mean, besides the 356 and the Bug, they could, for instance, come from Subaru or something?

[Otto Puzzell]

No Subarus...

[Allemano]

Chevrolet Corvair again?

[Otto Puzzell]

Yes - some examples used Corvair engines.

[Joao Gois]

Oh. After this night I thought the Subaru suggestion was stupid. Corvair makes more sense though!

[Otto Puzzell]

At the time this car made its debut, a Subaru engine would have been decidedly too wimpy.

[Otto Puzzell]

vroom!

[@re]

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...

[Otto Puzzell]

That's it!

[Carnut]

What's this, who built it, what is it based on and what powers it - for 1 point?:

ANYONE FOUND GIVING ANSWERS GLEANED BY USING GOOGLE SEARCH BY IMAGE MAY BE BANNED FOR AN INDETERMINATE PERIOD!

[pnegyesi]

 

[Carnut]

Experts?

[dzima1985]

Imp-based?

[Carnut]

Imp-based?

No

[frederick59]

Porsche base?

[Carnut]

Porsche base?

Not Porsche-based, but it does have a Porsche engine.

[D-type]

Pooper - a Porsche engined Cooper "Bobtail"

[WayneB]

1959 Devin D VW/Porsche

[Carnut]

Pooper - a Porsche engined Cooper "Bobtail"

Not that..

1959 Devin D VW/Porsche

..and it has nothing at all to do with Devin AFAIK.

[WayneB]

It also looks like a Bobsy SR3

[Carnut]

It also looks like a Bobsy SR3

..but it isn't one!

[geology]

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

[Carnut]

Yes, it's a product of John Sabel!

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

QUOTE
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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Bruce Baker
UNQUOTE


Well done; another point earned!

[woodinsight]

I believe this is a repost of Otto's #1030......

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

[Carnut]

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...