A nice easy Christmas present for 1 lucky Rookie (and this car has not appeared before as a full puzzle picture in its own right, for those who are about to shout "re-post"!):
One of the greatest kit cars of all time. The Fiberfab Jamaican!
Quote from: Tackitt on December 26, 2009, 11:43:06 AM
One of the greatest kit cars of all time. The Fiberfab Jamaican!
See - I told you it was easy!
One point for who knows this car.
Experts?
Erm, a Fiberfab Jamaican?
Yes it is!
Fiberfab Jamaican V8 coupe
Bit similar to this then:
www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=10476.0
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merged.
There's one of these sitting about a mile from my home, almost a twin to the red car. It looks to be pretty nicely finished, and may in fact be for sale. I'll take a photo the next time I'm over that way.
Name the car and the year and from which car is the motor?
Also resized!
Fiberfab Jamaican I, probably with an Austin Healey chassis and motor. 1967?
Quote from: crook411 on December 27, 2011, 11:56:47 PM
Fiberfab Jamaican I, probably with an Austin Healey chassis and motor. 1967?
Like this?:
www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=10476.0
;)
Facel's reply awaited?
Sorry, I didn't know it was a repost.
And yes, it is a Fiberfab Jamaican with a Austin Healey 100 Six motor.
Point for crook.
Merged
Three different cars merged into one thread: Carnut's Jamaican is based on a MGA chassis, which makes it a close relative to Facel's Jamaican based on an Austin-Healey. Those were two of the three chassis options the Jamaican started with, the third one being a Triumph chassis. Later a version was offered which could be built on a VW Beetle chassis. Finally the V8 came on a tubular chassis built by Fiberfab itself. That's Amsterdam's puzzle car.
So to complete this agglomeration of different versions, here is a VW-based Jamaican II, said to be the only one in Europe: