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Solved: GTE 315 - Ward WD8 Clubmans Special by Joe Ward
« on: March 13, 2020, 06:28:39 PM »
Identify this car for a point.
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Re: GTE 315
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2020, 11:57:17 AM »
Experts?

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Re: GTE 315
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2020, 06:02:17 PM »
Is this an Australian Clubman's car?
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Re: GTE 315
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2020, 06:18:42 PM »
Is this an Australian Clubman's car?
Clubman's, but not Australian

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Re: GTE 315
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2020, 10:40:50 AM »
Mallock U2?
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Re: GTE 315
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2020, 10:48:25 AM »

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Re: GTE 315
« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2020, 12:39:34 PM »
Somehow, I didn't think it was but wanted to eliminate it.

The only other Clubmans I know of - the Haggispeed?
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Re: GTE 315
« Reply #7 on: March 22, 2020, 12:47:28 PM »

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Re: GTE 315
« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2020, 03:54:49 PM »
Here endeth my knowledge of Clubman's cars.  Cue a sigh of relief from GTE4289 who doesn't have to tactfully say  :crap: to my guesses any more (on this puzzle anyway)
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Re: GTE 315
« Reply #9 on: March 22, 2020, 05:54:05 PM »
Cue a sigh of relief from GTE4289 who doesn't have to tactfully say  :crap: to my guesses any more (on this puzzle anyway)
Not at all. I, too, know very little about these cars.

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Re: GTE 315
« Reply #10 on: March 22, 2020, 06:01:09 PM »
Is it the Barry Foley St Bruno reborn

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Re: GTE 315
« Reply #11 on: March 22, 2020, 06:03:31 PM »
Is it the Barry Foley St Bruno reborn
No

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Re: GTE 315
« Reply #12 on: March 27, 2020, 03:22:57 PM »
Pros?

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Re: GTE 315
« Reply #13 on: March 27, 2020, 04:28:09 PM »
Gryphon ?
I must be right - that's what it says on Wikipedia

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Re: GTE 315
« Reply #14 on: March 27, 2020, 04:54:55 PM »
Gryphon ?
No. According to my source, this is a driver-built, one-off special.

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Re: GTE 315
« Reply #15 on: April 06, 2020, 05:04:39 AM »
Open to all

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Re: GTE 315
« Reply #16 on: April 12, 2020, 05:29:19 AM »
Centaur?

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Re: GTE 315
« Reply #17 on: April 12, 2020, 09:57:51 AM »
Centaur?
It's not identified as such, but I can't rule out the possibility that it may have been based on a Centaur.

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Re: GTE 315
« Reply #18 on: April 12, 2020, 11:00:23 AM »
Built in the seventies ?

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Re: GTE 315
« Reply #19 on: April 12, 2020, 11:02:37 AM »
British?

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Re: GTE 315
« Reply #20 on: April 12, 2020, 11:31:38 AM »

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Re: GTE 315
« Reply #21 on: April 12, 2020, 12:05:43 PM »

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Re: GTE 315
« Reply #22 on: April 12, 2020, 03:41:30 PM »
Built in the seventies ?
I am not sure when it was built, but I would guess sometime in the 1980s. The owner/builder was driving a different (but similarly-named) special in 1978.
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Re: GTE 315
« Reply #23 on: April 13, 2020, 09:40:42 AM »
Peter Deal ?
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Re: GTE 315
« Reply #24 on: April 13, 2020, 10:15:39 AM »
Diamond ?
I must be right - that's what it says on Wikipedia