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To: Spktyr

Actually Colin may have gotten the idea for the seven from these guys

http://www.arielmotor.co.uk/04/frames.htm


38 posted on 04/22/2006 8:08:56 AM PDT by Boiler Plate (Mom always said why be difficult, when with just a little more effort you can be impossible.)
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To: potlatch; PhilDragoo; dixiechick2000; Boiler Plate

Colin Chapman's Lotus Seven - 1957 on
a street version of his earlier field trials Lotus
here driven by Patrick McGoohan in "The Prisoner"




AC-Chevy - John Schultz's Pompano Beach street car
a FReeper's "solution" with a smallblock Chevy 283ci V-8
later copied by Carroll Shelby who saw it at Opa Locka





AC-Cobra - Carroll Shelby's later copy
first with a smallblock Ford 289ci V-8
then with a bigblock Ford 427ci





Modified 1965 Chevy Corvair Corsa Turbo
176+mph (don't ask)



50 posted on 01/21/2007 5:45:11 PM PST by devolve ( ........"refresh" my (updated) graphics posts)
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