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RE: If the Builder of Peyote made an open-wheel car

To: Dave Riddle <dave@microworks.net>, fot@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: If the Builder of Peyote made an open-wheel car
From: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 10:55:01 -0700
Wow, definitely looks Peyote-like. Even the roll cage has a strong family
resemblance. Must be some kind of cousin to Bill Ames.  

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From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On Behalf
Of Dave Riddle
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 9:53 AM
To: fot@autox.team.net
Subject: If the Builder of Peyote made an open-wheel car

Was looking through the 7/29/04 issue of Autosport magazine last night and I
stumbled across this picture on page 108-109.

Looking at this car was like looking at a train wreck and I could not help
but read about this thing.  Then when I noticed the caption that pointed at
the front suspension I was amused to see that "The front suspension is from
a Triumph Herald, because that's what was available and what worked best..."

According to the two page article on this car (entitled: Is this the oddest
car in British motorsport?) it holds the hillclimb record for "hybrid
machinery" at the Guernsey hillclimb with a time of 33.28 which compares to
the outright record of 29.14.  The estimated total cost of this car is 3,000
pounds. The motor is a 4.2L Jag putting out about 250bhp with triple 45mm
Delorto's.  The exhaust was some off the shelf 90-degree piping that the
builder shaped "...into a theoretically better shape...".  The gearbox is a
four speed from a late '60's Jag Mk2.

Certainly seems to be in the spirit of Peyote!

I could not find a picture searching on line so I scanned it and put it on
my site.  The car is called the "Rocksand Jaquar" and five of them were
built between 1980 and 1985.

http://www.microworks.net/dave/images/gallery/rocksand.jpg

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