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SOLVED - oko134 : Fouquet buggy with Foucart rotary engine
« on: February 01, 2018, 05:05:36 AM »
For 1 point : what is it, powered by what.
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Re: oko134
« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2018, 01:19:53 PM »
Experts ?
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Re: oko134
« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2018, 01:45:31 PM »
French?
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Re: oko134
« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2018, 04:33:37 PM »
Yes.
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Re: oko134
« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2018, 05:07:01 PM »
Dronde rally car with Honda engine. Champion of the 2013 French All-Terrain Rallye Championship. I now remember that I took some pictures of it at the 2016 Paris Motorshow.
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Re: oko134
« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2018, 05:25:11 PM »
It's not a Dronde and it's not Honda-powered. There's a relation between the puzzle car and the Dronde buggy though.
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Re: oko134
« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2018, 07:24:13 AM »
OK found it now! It's a Fouquet buggy with a rotary engine by Vincent Foucart, driven by Vincent Poincelet.
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Re: oko134
« Reply #7 on: February 09, 2018, 07:42:20 AM »
Spot on ! One point for you.

According to different sources, the Dronde buggy is either a Fouquet copy, or an original Dronde chassis with a Fouquet (or Fouquet-inspired) body.
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Re: SOLVED - oko134 : Fouquet buggy with Foucart rotary engine
« Reply #8 on: February 09, 2018, 09:02:14 AM »
There seem to be multiple references to Fouquet bodies online so I suppose that is the name of the company that builds them, and then people fit them over diverse chassis and engines. The Drondes (Father Pierre-Paul and son Louis) apparently built their own chassis and fit a Honda engine, but I have also seen adverts for Audi-, Peugeot- and Renault-powered Fouquet buggies.
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