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Experts?
Dio Tipo 61?
US-made kit car?
Quote from: RayTheRat on July 21, 2012, 02:14:12 PM
US-made kit car?
The base isn't American but the mods were done there.
It's not a kit car.
I suppose a street-legal Birdcage Maser would be too easy, right?
Quote from: RayTheRat on July 21, 2012, 07:19:57 PM
I suppose a street-legal Birdcage Maser would be too easy, right?
I'm afraid it would!
No relationship to Maserati at all..
Professionals?
Sadler?
Widi Climax?
Neither a Sadler nor a Widi.
Bocar XP-5? I can't remember if Bob Carnes used a proprietary platform for that one or not.
Looks like a Chaparral I but I guess that was all-USA born and bred.
Back to the search.....
Quote from: RayTheRat on August 03, 2012, 10:14:41 AM
Bocar XP-5? I can't remember if Bob Carnes used a proprietary platform for that one or not.
No, it's not a Bocar.
EDIT: Nor a Chaparral!
Is the base car European?
Italian base car?
British base car?
Tojeiro base?
Lola-based?
Then maybe Elva?
Lister?
Triumph TR3-based Ambro built in 1961?
Quote from: woodinsight on August 11, 2012, 08:25:23 AM
Triumph TR3-based Ambro built in 1961?
Triiumph-based Ambro is right.
But not 1961 and not TR3 based.
Locked for you to look further into it.
This is essentially a revival of the original Triumph TR3-based Ambro built by William Aldrich-Ames (Bill Ames) and Dewey Brohaugh at Rochester MN between 1961 & 1964. One complete car and around 40 bodies were produced in this period. The body had strong Maserati Birdcage and Lister influences and some body panels were molded on Don Skogmo's Maserati T-61. The body molds were accidentally destroyed during production of an Ambro body.
Jump three decades and the story of the car is resurrected by Bill Bonadio, working with Bill Ames in the early 1990s, made another set of molds and these bodies were produced under the name Dio Tipo 61.
Fast forward to 2007 when the rights to the Ambro name and production of the bodies were acquired by A.R.E. (Alexander Racing Enterprises).
ARE now produces a new and improved chassis frame with a Triumph TR3-TR4A donor car desirable for final assembly of the rolling chassis.
The Ambro story is, of course, much more interesting and involved than the brief information I've provided.
The puzzle car is I believe the first car built by Alexander Racing Enterprises on a new Triumph frame and is currently being campaigned by it's present owner.
So I believe, so it's a TR4 base.
But what engine does it have? Not a TR3 or TR4...
Locked for you!
Quote from: Carnut on August 12, 2012, 03:11:19 PM
So I believe, so it's a TR4 base.
But what engine does it have? Not a TR3 or TR4...
Locked for you!
I've found it difficult to find either a photo of the puzzle car or what engine is fitted.......
Let me guess it's a TR6 unit
Quote from: woodinsight on August 12, 2012, 03:30:25 PM
Quote from: Carnut on August 12, 2012, 03:11:19 PM
So I believe, so it's a TR4 base.
But what engine does it have? Not a TR3 or TR4...
Locked for you!
I've found it difficult to find either a photo of the puzzle car or what engine is fitted.......
Let me guess it's a TR6 unit
Not a TR6..
Have another go!
Is the engine a Triumph unit?
TR5?
Quote from: woodinsight on August 13, 2012, 09:13:58 PM
TR5?
No.
What's the Americans' favourite engine configuration?!
Running!
Okay - sorry to sound so dumb!
I suppose it must be a Triumph V8 3.0-litre, the engine that was developed in-house for the Triumph Stag?
Quote from: woodinsight on August 14, 2012, 06:40:26 AM
Okay - sorry to sound so dumb!
I suppose it must be a Triumph V8 3.0-litre, the engine that was developed in-house for the Triumph Stag?
Yes!
It must be about the last one left anyway..!
Stag engine it is.
More pics:
Very nice - better looking than a Maserati Tipo 61 which, if you look, had square[-ish] rear wheel arches which to me spoil its aesthetics.