88v8 Ivor Duarte Gloucestershire UK (1041 posts) Registered: 02/11/2010 04:29AM Main British Car: 1974 Land Rover Lightweight V8 |
Shadow turbo
For those who haven't seen the most commented car on BAT[bringatrailer.com]
where it's for sale without reserve. Quite mad, really. Ivor |
Re: Shadow turbo
An unfortunate example of poor planning and worse execution. The concept had potential
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BlownMGB-V8 Jim Blackwood 9406 Gunpowder Rd., Florence, KY 41042 (6469 posts) Registered: 10/23/2007 12:59PM Main British Car: 1971 MGB Blown,Injected,Intercooled Buick 340/AA80E/JagIRS |
Re: Shadow turbo
I believe it was all intentional.
Which rather says a lot about the builder's state of mind. But I'll not judge, it isn't my car. Don't usually see that kind of thing based on a top end vehicle though. Jim |
waterbucket Philip Waterman England (112 posts) Registered: 07/30/2011 01:08PM Main British Car: 1972 MGB GT |
Re: Shadow turbo
This is a totally different Rolls and built for a different purpose. The World Cup Rally was held in 1970 and a man called Bill Bengry entered a Rolls Royce Silver Shadow. Perhaps the above car was inspired by Bill's earlier project, here is a photo;
[www.google.co.uk]: and here an article; [www.motorsportmagazine.com] |