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Title: SOLVED: Djetset #565 - The Rascal by Tom Karen, 1962
Post by: Djetset on November 28, 2011, 06:05:02 PM
Give me the name of this machine, plus any additional information if you can, and another point may be yours.
Title: Re: Djetset #565
Post by: wingroad on November 29, 2011, 02:14:03 PM
Simca Fulgar?
Title: Re: Djetset #565
Post by: Djetset on November 30, 2011, 05:24:16 PM
I see where you're coming from, but this one is more vulgar than the Fulgar!
Title: Re: Djetset #565
Post by: Djetset on December 14, 2011, 04:10:39 PM
Up a level.
Title: Re: Djetset #565
Post by: wingroad on December 15, 2011, 02:39:39 PM
Being RHD I assume it is British
Title: Re: Djetset #565
Post by: Djetset on December 15, 2011, 03:07:03 PM
Yes, it is British.
Title: Re: Djetset #565
Post by: Oswald on December 16, 2011, 09:41:23 AM
That's a very early Tom Karen sketch. I'm not sure but I think it was for Frisky and named Rebel?
Title: Re: Djetset #565
Post by: Djetset on December 20, 2011, 11:51:20 AM
Very well done Oswald, as this was quite an obscure one.  It is The Rascal, designed by a young Tom Karen c.1962, later of Ogle fame.  A well-earned point is yours.
Title: Re: SOLVED: Djetset #565 - The Rascal by Tom Karen, 1962
Post by: DHoffmann on May 30, 2015, 05:17:31 AM
The interior of this featured in my recent group puzzle, and I had some more images come along with some text so here you go!

The Rascal 600 is a study by Tom Karen, a young industrial designer of London, England, for a three-seater rear-engined economy car. It has already figured successfully as an entry in one of the competitions organised annually by the Institution of British Carriage and Automobile Manufacturers. Entry is through a single lift-up door incorporating the left half of the windscreen. The left front seat tips sideways for access to the rear. The engine is a flat twin with ducted fan cooling. Suspension is by coil springs; Dubonnet with forward-projecting steered arms at the front and with trailing arms at the rear.

1. Door handle
2. Entry for cooling air to engine and for extra cabin ventilation
3. Sun visor
4. Access to rear seat is by tipping front passenger seat sideways
5. Combined head and side light
6. Exhaust