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Solved - NEH 4070: Bobsy SR-4 prototype built by Stephen Payne Herbert with Porsche engine - 1967
« on: May 06, 2015, 07:59:26 AM »
What's this, powered by what and built by whom - for 1 point?:

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Re: NEH 4070
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2015, 05:00:55 AM »
Experts?
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Re: NEH 4070
« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2015, 05:21:05 AM »
Up to the Pro's...
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Re: NEH 4070
« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2015, 06:28:48 AM »
Porsche-engined?
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Re: NEH 4070
« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2015, 07:47:34 AM »
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Re: NEH 4070
« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2015, 08:57:23 AM »
Anything to do with Herb Wetanson ?
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Re: NEH 4070
« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2015, 09:41:01 AM »
Quote from: nicanary on June 17, 2015, 08:57:23 AM
Anything to do with Herb Wetanson ?

The founder of Wetson's Hamburger chain?!
Ah, you must mean the other one..  No, not that I am aware of.
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Re: NEH 4070
« Reply #7 on: June 18, 2015, 08:07:18 AM »
Built in the USA ?
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Re: NEH 4070
« Reply #8 on: June 18, 2015, 09:43:26 AM »
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Re: NEH 4070
« Reply #9 on: June 18, 2015, 11:19:56 AM »
FYI Herb Wetanson had a string of Porsche race cars, and one was a 906 which he converted into a spyder. I thought maybe this was a continuation of that car. Porsche cars would have been expensive back then, so maybe this was indeed the hamburger king.

That's a 6-cylinder motor - so this car has been built around 1970 (apeing the McLaren CanAm cars) and I'm guessing the engine came from a 906/910/907 or there's a faint chance it came from a road car.

Do you know if the puzzle car was used in CanAm racing at all, like Tony Dean's 908?
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Re: NEH 4070
« Reply #10 on: June 18, 2015, 12:04:29 PM »
No, they were two different unrelated Herb Wetansons!

I haven't been able to ascertain exactly which Porsche engine was fitted or where it came from, but I do know this car didn't race in the CanAm series.
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Re: NEH 4070
« Reply #11 on: June 18, 2015, 12:20:33 PM »
Non-Porsche chassis ?
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Re: NEH 4070
« Reply #12 on: June 18, 2015, 02:57:50 PM »
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Re: NEH 4070
« Reply #13 on: June 19, 2015, 05:34:14 AM »
Quote from: Carnut on June 18, 2015, 12:04:29 PM
No, they were two different unrelated Herb Wetansons!

I thought it a bit odd that there could be two different Herb Wetansons of a similar age at the same time in the same area so I dug into it a bit more and found this:

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Wetson’s was founded in 1959 by Harold Norbitz (1921-2001) of Dix Hills, LI and Carl Wetanson (1912-1995) of Woodmere. It was headquartered in Valley Stream.
 
Observing the McDonald’s formula for restaurant success, Wetson’s planned to duplicate it in New York — an open market at the time with no fast food restaurants.
 
Carl’s older son, Herbert, pushed for franchises all over Queens and Long Island before McDonald’s could enter the market. Herbert Wetanson was a successful race car driver well-known on Long Island.
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It's nothing to do with this thread of course but interesting nevertheless!
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Re: NEH 4070
« Reply #14 on: June 19, 2015, 05:38:28 AM »
The wonder of the web - the gift that keeps on giving  ;D
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Re: NEH 4070
« Reply #15 on: June 20, 2015, 07:19:55 AM »
One of Harald Kirberg's KK cars?
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Re: NEH 4070
« Reply #16 on: June 20, 2015, 10:03:08 AM »
Quote from: nicanary on June 20, 2015, 07:19:55 AM
One of Harald Kirberg's KK cars?

No.
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Re: NEH 4070
« Reply #17 on: June 21, 2015, 04:33:02 PM »
Bit of a long shot, but that body reminds me of a Legrand Mk18. Is this the one-off Mk16 built for Mason O'Kief ?
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Re: NEH 4070
« Reply #18 on: June 22, 2015, 04:37:58 AM »
Quote from: nicanary on June 21, 2015, 04:33:02 PM
Bit of a long shot, but that body reminds me of a Legrand Mk18. Is this the one-off Mk16 built for Mason O'Kief ?

I'm afraid it isn't, no!
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Re: NEH 4070
« Reply #19 on: June 25, 2015, 12:31:40 PM »
Is it a homemade one-off or was it built by a company ?
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Re: NEH 4070
« Reply #20 on: June 26, 2015, 05:03:24 AM »
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Is it a homemade one-off or was it built by a company ?

The body is a home-built one-off.
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Re: NEH 4070
« Reply #21 on: June 26, 2015, 05:05:49 AM »
European chassis ?
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Re: NEH 4070
« Reply #22 on: June 26, 2015, 05:16:27 AM »
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Re: NEH 4070
« Reply #23 on: June 26, 2015, 05:27:27 AM »
American chassis ?
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Re: NEH 4070
« Reply #24 on: June 26, 2015, 05:40:32 AM »
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