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Title: Solved -PJ175- Robert Box's Bobcat 1980s
Post by: Paul Jaray on July 11, 2009, 07:53:48 AM
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Title: Re: PJ - 175
Post by: Paul Jaray on July 23, 2009, 07:34:54 AM
Expert this!
Title: Re: PJ - 175
Post by: Paul Jaray on July 28, 2009, 02:41:06 PM
Pro time!
Title: Re: PJ - 175
Post by: Quiller on July 29, 2009, 01:05:23 PM
Knowing what it is, is probably an easier task than knowing why it is...

I don't know what it is but it does bear a resemblance to the O&C Thruxton
Title: Re: PJ - 175
Post by: Paul Jaray on July 29, 2009, 01:18:14 PM
Not that...
Title: Re: PJ - 175
Post by: Djetset on September 08, 2009, 02:45:39 AM
This looks like the Bobcat, a late 1980s Reliant Fox/Kitten-based special.
Title: Re: PJ - 175
Post by: Paul Jaray on September 08, 2009, 05:09:08 AM
I'm sure you are more familiar witht this pic...
Well done, this is indeed the Bobcat:

"John Box's sons, Robert, had a year out from studying,
and designed and built the one and only Bobcat in 1980 – well, that's when he started the project whose design
began in 1979, but a family house move got in the way, and the car was not in fact completed till 1984 !
It was a design exercise to make a Kitten do 100 MPH.
Built on a 1976 one owner Kitten estate chassis Its very distinctive looks are striking.
The aluminium body is not in fact particularly light, but the car is none the less very brisk.
This vehicle was owned by Joe Boulderstone-Salthouse of Stockport from 1995 till 2000 when it was acquired
by Steven Cambell of Tempest cars. It was subsequently acquired by John Pearce of Leighton Buzzard and
sold on in 2007 to James Butlin from Higham Ferrrers in Northants, who is presently restoring it"