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RE: what is this car ?

To: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
Subject: RE: what is this car ?
From: Tab Julius <tab@penworks.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 21:21:11
No, what I said was it looked like a Bentley hood strapped on a VW, though
where the hell the back came from I couldn't say.  I know it's way too
small for a Bentley, but if you look at the bonnet/front, it looks a lot
like a Bentley Mark VI (example is http://www.darkforce.com/royce/mk6.gif
).  Not to say it actually is, but people have strapped Rolls Royce hoods
on a VW before.

The back, I couldn't say.  It looks oddly familiar, but I can't place it.

Particularly if it comes from some out of the way place, it's entirely
reasonable it might have been cobbled together from junked high-priced
diplomatic vehicles from the embassy and slapped onto a VW and given
another life to some enterprising mechanic.

What it certainly is, though, is in need of a bath.

- Tab

At 02:40 PM 12/30/99 -0800, Max Heim wrote:
>I thought of that, but I've never seen that ugly and kludgey a body kit. 
>More like a homebuilt special, I would think. It's definitely a small 
>car, like a Bug, though, and not a Bentley as someone proposed --- look 
>at the size of the headlamps and wheels.
>
>John Steczkowski had this to say:
>
>>Work with me on this.....
>>
>>
>>It's a bug with a kit body on it... check out the running boards, the door
>>with the chrome strip near the top and the windshield shape... I wish their
>>was a better picture of the dash and you can also almost see the front
>>suspension, the front torsion bar tubes would be a dead giveaway...
>>
>>
>>----
>>John Steczkowski
>>Director, Server I/O
>>Crossroads Systems, Inc.
>>512-794-2742
>>
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Sam Perera [mailto:sam_perera@yahoo.com]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 8:50 PM
>>> To: mgs@autox.team.net
>>> Subject: what is this car ?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> can anyone tell me what this car may be ? Is this some
>>> funky MG derivavtive or something entirely different ?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> http://members.tripod.com/sperera/car/what_is_this_car.htm
>>> 
>>> thanks
>>> 
>>> Sam
>>> 
>>> 
>>> =====
>>> Sam Perera,
>>> Houston, USA
>>> http://members.tripod.com/sperera/
>>> Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger.
>>> http://messenger.yahoo.com
>>> 
>>
>
>
>--
>
>Max Heim
>'66 MGB GHN3L76149
>If you're near Mountain View, CA,
>it's the red one with the silver bootlid.
>
>
>

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