Author Topic: Solved -PJ517- Piro-Piro by Sauro Stella, 1970  (Read 2906 times)

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Solved -PJ517- Piro-Piro by Sauro Stella, 1970
« on: March 23, 2013, 05:10:56 PM »
Do you know this 3-wheeler vehicle?
1 point for you!
« Last Edit: March 28, 2013, 05:40:34 PM by Paul Jaray »

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Re: PJ - 517
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2013, 04:10:40 PM »
Experts?

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Re: PJ - 517
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2013, 04:14:53 PM »
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Do you know this 3-wheeler?

No I don't!   ???

Is it Russian?
« Last Edit: March 28, 2013, 04:17:34 PM by D-type »
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Re: PJ - 517
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2013, 04:19:41 PM »
Is this a real car of scale model?

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Re: PJ - 517
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2013, 05:40:03 PM »
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Do you know this 3-wheeler?

No I don't!   ???

Is it Russian?
Not Russian!
Is this a real car of scale model?
Very real!

EDIT: It was not a 3-wheeler!

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Re: PJ - 517
« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2013, 09:21:09 PM »
Was this car built and run outside the US?  I haven't seen it in my trips to the salt and I don't have it in any of my Bonneville reference photos.

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Re: PJ - 517
« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2013, 05:10:18 AM »
Land speed record contender?

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Re: PJ - 517
« Reply #7 on: March 29, 2013, 05:53:56 AM »
Was this car built and run outside the US?  I haven't seen it in my trips to the salt and I don't have it in any of my Bonneville reference photos.

Yes!
Land speed record contender?
Yes!

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Re: PJ - 517
« Reply #8 on: March 29, 2013, 01:22:49 PM »
Not US, not Russia

Australia?
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Re: PJ - 517
« Reply #9 on: March 29, 2013, 03:29:58 PM »
Not Australia.

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Re: PJ - 517
« Reply #10 on: March 29, 2013, 03:37:51 PM »
Not Australia.

...which elicits the inevitable question, "New Zealand?" 

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Re: PJ - 517
« Reply #11 on: March 29, 2013, 03:42:09 PM »
Not from there...

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Re: PJ - 517
« Reply #12 on: March 29, 2013, 03:54:13 PM »
British?

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Re: PJ - 517
« Reply #13 on: March 29, 2013, 03:56:00 PM »
Not British.

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Re: PJ - 517
« Reply #14 on: March 30, 2013, 04:59:32 AM »
Did it broke any records?

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Re: PJ - 517
« Reply #15 on: March 30, 2013, 05:29:55 AM »
3, if I'm not mistaken.

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Re: PJ - 517
« Reply #16 on: March 30, 2013, 10:32:30 AM »
Were the records that it broke FIA-sanctioned flying mile and flying kilometer?  The 3rd one might be an incidental, like 1/2 mile or 500 meters, I suppose.

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Re: PJ - 517
« Reply #17 on: March 30, 2013, 11:08:53 AM »
Were the records that it broke FIA-sanctioned flying mile and flying kilometer?  The 3rd one might be an incidental, like 1/2 mile or 500 meters, I suppose.
Were official records but I have little info about. One of them was longer than 1km or 1mile, I do not know the others.

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Re: PJ - 517
« Reply #18 on: March 30, 2013, 11:09:55 AM »
Canadian?

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Re: PJ - 517
« Reply #19 on: March 30, 2013, 11:25:19 AM »
I found all 3 records now...all of them in a greater distance than 1km-1M.
Not Canadian.
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Re: PJ - 517
« Reply #20 on: March 30, 2013, 12:55:36 PM »
Is this a thrust (jet or rocket) powered vehicle?

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Re: PJ - 517
« Reply #21 on: March 30, 2013, 12:56:16 PM »
Is this a thrust (jet or rocket) powered vehicle?

No, it's not.

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Re: PJ - 517
« Reply #22 on: March 30, 2013, 02:42:30 PM »
Powered by a motorcycle engine?

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Re: PJ - 517
« Reply #23 on: March 30, 2013, 03:01:28 PM »
US
Russia
Australia
New Zealand
Britain
Canada


Somewhere in Europe?
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Re: PJ - 517
« Reply #24 on: March 30, 2013, 03:09:50 PM »
Powered by a motorcycle engine?
Yes!
US
Russia
Australia
New Zealand
Britain
Canada


Somewhere in Europe?
Yes!