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Solved: GTE 664 - Callan, 1975
« on: November 08, 2024, 12:14:39 AM »
Please identify this car for a point:

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Re: GTE 664
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2024, 12:50:50 PM »
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Re: GTE 664
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2024, 01:21:05 PM »
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Re: GTE 664
« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2024, 01:47:07 PM »
It looks like the love-child of a Mirage and a Lola GT. British ?
I must be right - that's what it says on Wikipedia

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Re: GTE 664
« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2024, 02:11:25 PM »
It looks like the love-child of a Mirage and a Lola GT. British ?
Partly British.

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Re: GTE 664
« Reply #5 on: December 28, 2024, 06:43:16 PM »
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Re: GTE 664
« Reply #6 on: December 29, 2024, 05:45:19 AM »
Callan

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Re: GTE 664
« Reply #7 on: December 29, 2024, 07:00:20 AM »

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Re: Solved: GTE 664 - Callan, 1975
« Reply #8 on: December 29, 2024, 07:46:05 AM »
It looks like the love-child of a Mirage and a Lola GT. British ?
More like the Dulon LD6GT

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Re: Solved: GTE 664 - Callan, 1975
« Reply #9 on: December 30, 2024, 08:17:52 AM »
It it a French homebuilt or was there a plan to produce more?

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Re: Solved: GTE 664 - Callan, 1975
« Reply #10 on: December 30, 2024, 05:04:10 PM »
It it a French homebuilt or was there a plan to produce more?
Information is scarce, but from what I could gather, Maxperenco Products (UK-based builder of the Dulon race car) initiated a project to build a road car based on the Dulon LD6 GT racer. The new car was dubbed the Dulon LD7 GT and was described in period marketing materials as:

"LD7: Road going version, fitted all creature comforts and to take Ford power units in the current mid-engine vogue and coupled with a 4-speed transaxle and wide alloy wheels, etc."

I don't know how many, if any, LD7s were completed, but after failing to secure an adequate number of purchase orders, Maxperenco sold the project to Marcel Schaub.

Schaub rebranded the car as Callan and began construction in Switzerland, where at least one car was completed.

Julian Rowse (wealthy playboy and heir to the UK honey producer of the same name) is said to have had a financial interest in the project at some point. Perhaps he bankrolled Schaub's venture?

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Re: Solved: GTE 664 - Callan, 1975
« Reply #11 on: December 30, 2024, 05:52:30 PM »
Two cars were completed (picture of the second car attached); not a French homebuilt
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