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SOLVED: Djetset #604 - Frisky Critter Doran
« on: August 07, 2012, 03:53:53 PM »
Name the car; gain a point.  It's that simple  ;)
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Re: Djetset #604
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2012, 03:17:25 PM »
AMC Pacer ?

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Re: Djetset #604
« Reply #2 on: August 13, 2012, 07:30:07 AM »
Not an AMC Pacer!
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Re: Djetset #604
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2012, 05:27:01 AM »
On the move...
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Re: Djetset #604
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2012, 04:49:06 PM »
Doran?
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Re: Djetset #604
« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2012, 10:12:37 AM »
It looks as if it may be Mini-powered, but after an extensive search in all my reference books (and despite having seen it somewhere before), I can't find anything about it. It may be a 1970s British kit car with a Mini subframe to the front. :-\

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Re: Djetset #604
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2012, 03:00:27 PM »
Doran?
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Re: Djetset #604
« Reply #7 on: October 24, 2012, 05:00:18 PM »
Sorry Thorax, missed your post. Doran is not quite the name I have as I have a full make and model name.  However, there is a Doran connection, so locked to you until your next reply.
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Re: Djetset #604
« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2012, 06:07:47 AM »
no problem  ;D
I'll try to find more infos.
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Re: Djetset #604
« Reply #9 on: November 27, 2012, 06:36:31 AM »
no news: you can open again!
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Re: Djetset #604
« Reply #10 on: November 28, 2012, 06:57:12 AM »
Thanks Thorax.  Now up to the Pros.
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Re: Djetset #604
« Reply #11 on: January 08, 2013, 10:25:42 AM »
Is this the Critter, a Subaru-engined home-built special built in the USA in the mid nineties?
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Re: Djetset #604
« Reply #12 on: January 09, 2013, 11:44:55 AM »
was the car,s owner MR.Hartling?

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Re: Djetset #604
« Reply #13 on: January 12, 2013, 03:28:58 PM »
Any news Djetset?
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Re: Djetset #604
« Reply #14 on: January 14, 2013, 03:47:32 PM »
Forgive the slow reply, but been AWOL since Christmas.  Anyway, well done Carnut; you get the point, as this is the Frisky Critter Doran, to give the car its full title  ;).
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Re: Djetset #604
« Reply #15 on: January 15, 2013, 04:14:30 AM »
Forgive the slow reply, but been AWOL since Christmas.  Anyway, well done Carnut; you get the point, as this is the Frisky Critter Doran, to give the car its full title  ;).

Thanks!
Here's another more up-to-date picture of the front:

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Re: SOLVED: Djetset #604 - Frisky Critter Doran
« Reply #16 on: October 27, 2013, 12:15:23 PM »
does anyone know of additional information on this car?

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Re: SOLVED: Djetset #604 - Frisky Critter Doran
« Reply #17 on: May 01, 2017, 01:33:37 PM »
does anyone know of additional information on this car?
This car was indeed built by Doran:
Rick Doran's Critter, prototype built by Rick: steel backbone chassis and a foam and GPR body.
Engine is a Subaru 1781cc boxer, 82bhp, 125mph, 1280lb, 46mpg.
Front wheel drive.
Doran Motor Company, PO Box 976, San Luis Obispo, California.