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Solved - NEH 2668: Kit-car abandoned on Dutch street, said to be GRP-bodied Ford Falcon on VW chassi
« on: May 10, 2013, 07:34:27 AM »
What's this and on what is it based - for 1 point?:

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Re: NEH 2668
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2013, 10:48:21 PM »
Austin Healey based?
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Re: NEH 2668
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Re: NEH 2668
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2013, 08:44:22 AM »
Experts?
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Re: NEH 2668
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2013, 08:51:09 AM »
triumph tr4 base?
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Re: NEH 2668
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Re: NEH 2668
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2013, 06:32:14 AM »
The body is resting on wooden/metal beams, so it's probably old and rotten. A GRP body would not need support. Yet you say it has a "base" car.

Is this a rebodied car from a previous era ?
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Re: NEH 2668
« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2013, 08:18:13 AM »
Quote from: nicanary on May 19, 2013, 06:32:14 AM
The body is resting on wooden/metal beams, so it's probably old and rotten. A GRP body would not need support. Yet you say it has a "base" car.

Is this a rebodied car from a previous era ?

No, as far as I know it's a kit.
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Re: NEH 2668
« Reply #8 on: June 03, 2013, 04:43:39 AM »
Professionals?
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Re: NEH 2668
« Reply #9 on: June 03, 2013, 05:02:35 AM »
1973' Ford Falcon-based homebuilt car from Holland.
(I was found it after your puzzle - VW kitcar:  http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=24676.0 )
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Re: NEH 2668
« Reply #10 on: June 03, 2013, 07:21:01 AM »
Quote from: dzima1985 on June 03, 2013, 05:02:35 AM
1973' Ford Falcon-based homebuilt car from Holland.
(I was found it after your puzzle - VW kitcar:  http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=24676.0 )

Yes.  I was surprised at the lack of enterprise shown on this one!  The answer was right there on the same site as another Solved puzzle!

But what is it based on?

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Re: NEH 2668
« Reply #11 on: June 03, 2013, 07:31:26 AM »
based on Beetle chassis?
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Re: NEH 2668
« Reply #12 on: June 03, 2013, 07:37:25 AM »
Quote from: dzima1985 on June 03, 2013, 07:31:26 AM
based on Beetle chassis?

The English part of the site does indeed say this is a GRP-bodied Ford Falcon on a beetle chassis.
But I wonder if it in fact refers to the car pictured?  I don't think so, as that doesn't look much like a Ford Falcon to me.
And who would make a GRP-bodied Ford Falcon?

In fact translating the Dutch it merely says that this wreck has been sitting on the street for 2 years and is now almost completely dismantled.  The neighbours were getting a bit cross about it..!

So I don't think they really know what it is at all and the guy is writing (in English) about something not pictured..

But it's what it says, so I've given you a point and will call it a Beetle-based Falcon (?) kit car I think; unless someone can show otherwise?!
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