Guess the car
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mrlozzer said:john56 said:Just one more for now.
That's the Rover / Alvis mid-engine prototype... saw it at Gaydon a few weeks back
Yeh, easy one, a car that "should have been" every motoring journalist that tested it said what a fantastic car it was, for a company that mostly produced very sedate cars Rover were actually a very forward thinking company, just imagine this going into production in the late 60s.
Totally agree... my uncle used to collect Rovers. Had several P4s, P5 3.0 saloon & P5B V8 Coupe, pre-production P6 and a V8S... all great cars, and as you say their gas turbine research was really forward-thinking. When you look at the Honda / Rover crap that came later...geepee said:
To cut a long story short.mrlozzer said:john56 said:Spot on,good we have a few classic car enthusiasts in the forum.
That's a pretty rare one... is it a coincidence that the pub it's outside is not far from Warwick...?
Apparently there is a connection, the Warwick GT was built by a new company formed after the collapse of "The Peerless" using the same people and facilities but slimmed down.
The idea behind the Peerless was a chap named James Byrnes a hotel owner and motor racing enthusiast from the midlands who wanted to build his own racing car to his own specification.
Jimmy owned the Saxon Mill Restaurant which at that time was being frequented by virtually the whole of the Standard Triumph Board hence the car being based on the TR3 and later to be called the Warwick GT.
