OBC Mantorp

grobmotorix · November 23, 2007, 06:41:48 PM

who knows this one?

Otto Puzzell · November 24, 2007, 06:54:36 AM

Please be telling - is from Eastern bloc, comrade?

grobmotorix · November 24, 2007, 07:06:47 AM

Njet!

Otto Puzzell · November 24, 2007, 07:11:34 AM

Japanese?

@re · November 24, 2007, 07:56:28 AM

Or maybe Austrian?

grobmotorix · November 24, 2007, 04:04:52 PM

None of those.

It comes from a european country where there were and are only two major national car companies.

SeaLion · November 24, 2007, 05:13:43 PM

Volvo ESV "something"?

grobmotorix · November 25, 2007, 05:41:26 AM

right country!

but not one of those two manufacturers, of course...

Otto Puzzell · December 01, 2007, 08:44:15 AM

That is an OBC Mantorp.

OBC (sometimes called BCS for Beckmann Cars Sweden AB) or Ottmar Beckman Cars AB was a car manufacturer in Mantorp, Sweden. In 1974 they presented a two seated mid engined sports car called OBC Mantorp (named after the Mantorp Park race track). The design was somewhat similar to the Lotus Elan, but with a more rounded front. It was powered by a BMW engine mated to a Porsche gearbox. Both the chassis and bodywork was in fibreglass. The company planned a production rate of five a day with 100 employees, but it never entered production.

SeaLion · December 01, 2007, 01:57:15 PM

Quote from: KarnUtz on December 01, 2007, 08:44:15 AMThe design was somewhat similar to the Lotus Elan, but with a more rounded front.

You are just kidding, right?

Otto Puzzell · December 02, 2007, 01:54:47 AM

Those aren't my comments; they came from the site that ID'd the car.

grobmotorix · December 02, 2007, 06:04:28 PM

Wow, you did it!

Well the Lotus comparison....

grobmotorix · December 04, 2007, 02:39:34 PM

QuoteThe design was somewhat similar to the Lotus Elan, but with a more rounded front

Well, maybe there were more than one prototype...

This is the original version of the OPC Mantorp scan posted above:

@re · December 04, 2007, 03:19:49 PM

I was puzzled by the licence plate, which is clearly a German clone. Problem is, no German district has 'GD' registrations, that's why I suggested Austrian. But it was a red herring all along. A great, big, red, boxy herring...

Paul Jaray · January 22, 2013, 07:43:35 AM

This was a 'Gugelot Design' product.

Otto Puzzell · January 22, 2013, 10:04:19 AM

Judging by some of the comments, I would have expected "Gulag Design'

Djetset · February 11, 2013, 04:48:11 PM

Searching on this one to potentially post it as a new puzzle, I noticed that it is incorrectly titled, as it is an OBC Mantorp, not an OPC. Thanks.

Carnut · March 13, 2013, 09:08:39 AM

I'd say this looks like quite a few different cars, but a Lotus is not one of them...!

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