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Title: Van Hool F2 (1976)
Post by: BERTRAND on December 10, 2014, 04:32:17 AM
What's this race car?
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Post by: BERTRAND on January 10, 2015, 02:31:07 AM
Up!
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Post by: BERTRAND on January 19, 2015, 04:16:29 AM
Pros!
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Post by: oko94 on January 19, 2015, 04:57:42 AM
Is it called "Platypus" ?
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Post by: serra on January 19, 2015, 04:59:11 AM
is it a Van Hool F 2?
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Post by: serra on January 19, 2015, 05:43:47 AM
The puzzle car has not front flaps but I am pretty sure it is the Van Hool F2 1975-1976. It looks this car was built in Spain but for the Belgian Marcel Van Hool.
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Post by: serra on January 19, 2015, 05:57:36 AM
I was not absolutely sure because the nose was slightly different that the one apears in my photos and I could not find your photo but I have found the same car in a hill climb race and now I am sure it is the same car.
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Post by: BERTRAND on January 19, 2015, 05:59:08 AM
Very Good job, Serra, it's a Van Hool F2.  My photo has been taken at the Hill climb of FlĂ©ron (Belgium) in 1980.
Van Hool is a bus builder.  He had a big project for this race car, who build in 1976, and who did one race in track (Hockenheim in 1976).
In 1980, Freddy Grainal, a former driver in Formule V, bought the 2 existing car for make run in Hill Climb


Title: Re: Van Hool F2 (1976)
Post by: nicanary on January 19, 2015, 06:29:01 AM
Looks like a copy of the 1976 Shadow DN8!
Title: Re: Van Hool F2 (1976)
Post by: serra on January 19, 2015, 08:53:38 AM
Quote from: nicanary on January 19, 2015, 06:29:01 AM
Looks like a copy of the 1976 Shadow DN8!

Somewhere I have read that I was used a Shadow DN5 monocoque for its development but other suggest that it is inspired by a ferrari 312T2