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Title: Solved: Allemano's № 871 - Facel Vega Le Mans project
Post by: Allemano on March 09, 2013, 05:14:35 AM
What's that?

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Title: Re: Allemano's № 871
Post by: Allemano on April 22, 2013, 04:07:50 AM
Experts?
Title: Re: Allemano's № 871
Post by: nicanary on April 22, 2013, 05:11:27 AM
Original drawings by Eric Broadley for the proposed Lola GT ?
Title: Re: Allemano's № 871
Post by: Allemano on April 22, 2013, 05:12:23 AM
Quote from: nicanary on April 22, 2013, 05:11:27 AM
Original drawings by Eric Broadley for the proposed Lola GT ?
Not that..
Title: Re: Allemano's № 871
Post by: thewarlord on April 22, 2013, 08:13:23 AM
Le Mans sportscar project by Facel Vega
Title: Re: Allemano's № 871
Post by: Allemano on April 22, 2013, 09:55:20 AM
Quote from: thewarlord on April 22, 2013, 08:13:23 AM
Le Mans sportscar project by Facel Vega
Yes, that's it. I don't know if it ever left the 2D stage.

Point for thewarlord.
Title: Re: Solved: Allemano's № 871 - Facel Vega Le Mans project
Post by: dzima1985 on April 22, 2013, 09:59:12 AM
Original prototype (!!!) and my modified image:
Title: Re: Solved: Allemano's № 871 - Facel Vega Le Mans project
Post by: Allemano on April 22, 2013, 10:02:05 AM
Looks rather like a modified GT40 to me...
Title: Re: Solved: Allemano's № 871 - Facel Vega Le Mans project
Post by: sixtee5cuda on April 22, 2013, 11:37:54 AM
Sadly, the "original prototype" image was probably someone's idea of a joke using Photoshop.  It is actually a GT40 kit car, shown in this un-modified image:
Title: Re: Solved: Allemano's № 871 - Facel Vega Le Mans project
Post by: Allemano on April 22, 2013, 11:45:25 AM
Never trust in blurry pics*...




* and not in sharp ones eitherl..
Title: Re: Solved: Allemano's № 871 - Facel Vega Le Mans project
Post by: dzima1985 on April 22, 2013, 12:01:09 PM
Quote from: sixtee5cuda on April 22, 2013, 11:37:54 AM
Sadly, the "original prototype" image was probably someone's idea of a joke using Photoshop.  It is actually a GT40 kit car, shown in this un-modified image:
I found this photo on the famous French forum, and believed the inscriptions.. :-\
Title: Re: Solved: Allemano's № 871 - Facel Vega Le Mans project
Post by: Wendax on April 22, 2013, 12:28:41 PM
Jean Daninos wrote in his Facel-Vega book that the car's construction was stopped at 80 percent stage, and after Facel-Vega closed down, the car was dismantled.
Title: Re: Solved: Allemano's № 871 - Facel Vega Le Mans project
Post by: Otto Puzzell on April 24, 2016, 03:41:27 AM
Quote from: Allemano on March 09, 2013, 05:14:35 AM
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No

I'll have to concoct more clues.