Name This Race Car - Solved! 1937 Sparks "Big Six" Thorne-Sparks Race Car

Otto Puzzell · August 22, 2007, 06:12:11 AM

Name This Race Car!

SeaLion · August 22, 2007, 06:45:52 AM

Maserati 8C?

Tifosi · August 22, 2007, 07:18:28 PM

Talbot?

Dan

Otto Puzzell · August 23, 2007, 05:56:51 AM

None of the above.

D-type · August 23, 2007, 07:43:01 AM

Derby-Maserati?

Allan L · August 23, 2007, 09:49:02 AM

Quote from: D-type on August 23, 2007, 07:43:01 AM
Derby-Maserati?

It won't be that: it was front-drive with swing-axles suspension! OK for a Track car, but quite interesting at Oulton Park where I saw it win its only race.

Otto Puzzell · August 24, 2007, 05:35:53 AM

Quote from: D-type on August 23, 2007, 07:43:01 AM
Derby-Maserati?

No sir.

Otto Puzzell · August 25, 2007, 10:04:00 AM

The twin-cam engine in this car gave it record-breaking performance without it ever having run on a dynamometer.

Allan L · October 08, 2007, 08:27:06 AM

From the USofA?

Otto Puzzell · October 08, 2007, 12:37:42 PM

Yep.

Tifosi · October 08, 2007, 02:48:12 PM

1939 Thorne Engineering Special? Driven by Jimmy Snydeer at Indy, it was the first car to average over 130 mph in qualifying, if that's what it is...I only have a small picture of the car.

Dan

porridgehead · October 08, 2007, 04:51:27 PM

Why suffer with a little picture when you can purchase the life-sized 3D version? I imagine that it's not cheap.

http://www.finecars.cc/en/detail/car/11658/index.html?no_cache=1&cHash=6e18ff52ee

Otto Puzzell · October 09, 2007, 06:45:33 AM

Quote from: Tifosi on October 08, 2007, 02:48:12 PM
1939 Thorne Engineering Special? Driven by Jimmy Snydeer at Indy, it was the first car to average over 130 mph in qualifying, if that's what it is...I only have a small picture of the car.

Dan

Well done, sir!

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Name This Race Car - Solved! 1937 Sparks "Big Six" Thorne-Sparks Race Car