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Title: Barrett's #342 - Colin Rule's half-scale 'Healey' Junior 3000
Post by: barrett on October 30, 2012, 09:00:59 PM
Not quite what it seems? For a point, please tell me what this is and who is responsible for its creation
Title: Re: Barrett's #342
Post by: barrett on November 10, 2012, 10:47:33 AM
Experts turn
Title: Re: Barrett's #342
Post by: D-type on November 10, 2012, 11:44:48 AM
Is it perhaps a Cavaliere 3000 made by CRD, Port Charlotte, Florida?
Title: Re: Barrett's #342
Post by: barrett on November 10, 2012, 12:54:58 PM
Not that
Title: Re: Barrett's #342
Post by: Zerk on November 10, 2012, 01:23:15 PM
Possibly Sebring 5000 by Classic Roadsters? I can imagine one turned out this nicely, but this would be the most tasteful of the ones that I've seen.
Title: Re: Barrett's #342
Post by: barrett on November 10, 2012, 03:26:23 PM
Not that either...
Title: Re: Barrett's #342
Post by: thorax on November 10, 2012, 03:46:15 PM
is from Usa?
Title: Re: Barrett's #342
Post by: gilescooperuk on November 11, 2012, 02:04:10 AM
Belgium origin judging by the plates
Title: Re: Barrett's #342
Post by: barrett on November 11, 2012, 06:18:50 AM
Not from the USA or Belgium
Title: Re: Barrett's #342
Post by: D-type on November 11, 2012, 09:42:13 AM
From South Africa?
Title: Re: Barrett's #342
Post by: gilescooperuk on November 11, 2012, 06:46:47 PM
Haldane?
Title: Re: Barrett's #342
Post by: Oswald on November 12, 2012, 03:52:45 AM
Funny one, this. It's a replica of John Chatham's infamous Big Healey racer, but... in a 1:2 scale. The guy who built it is Colin Rule from Australia. It uses an electric motor but when you open the bonnet you'd swear there's a full working inline-6 under the bonnet, too. The detail is really amazing. Mr. Rule built several more. Unforunately he's not allowed to use the Healey name, so he calls them Junior 3000's.

Title: Re: Barrett's #342
Post by: D-type on November 12, 2012, 05:41:14 AM
Great puzzle!   :applause:

They look full size!
Title: Re: Barrett's #342
Post by: barrett on November 20, 2012, 07:00:04 AM
Correct! It really does look like a full size car at first glance, but of course once you know....

Sorry I didn't see your reply until now
Title: SOLVED: Djetset 970 - Colin Rule half-scale Works Austin-Healey, DD 300, Australia
Post by: Djetset on June 13, 2019, 06:14:46 PM
For a point, who made this and where, and remember that this is AutoPuzzles, so things are not always as they might seem  ;)
Title: Re: Djetset 970
Post by: Djetset on June 19, 2019, 06:22:44 PM
No Rookie responses, so up to the Experts...
Title: Re: Djetset 970
Post by: Allan L on June 20, 2019, 04:40:34 AM
Well someone has to point out that, whatever it is, it's pretending to be David Dixon's ex-works A-H 3000 registration DD300.
That actually looked like:
(https://i.pinimg.com/236x/19/48/bf/1948bfaf549a1c9d8bb38c5a5396346e--austin-british.jpg)
Title: Re: Djetset 970
Post by: mekubb on June 20, 2019, 06:08:55 AM
This is a half scale Austin Healey made by Australian Colin Rule around 2000
Title: Re: Djetset 970
Post by: Djetset on June 25, 2019, 05:02:14 PM
Quote from: mekubb on June 20, 2019, 06:08:55 AM
This is a half scale Austin Healey made by Australian Colin Rule around 2000
Spot on, and sorry for the slow response; exceptionally busy at the moment. Here's another photo of this half-scale electric Austin-Healey to give you a sense of its size. Another point to you.
Title: Re: Barrett's #342 - Colin Rule's half-scale 'Healey' Junior 3000
Post by: nicanary on June 26, 2019, 03:07:58 PM
Merged.