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Title: Marble, rye or whole wheat?
Post by: Lou Drozdowski on Sunday,January 20, 2019, 11:23:00 AM: Thanks to the Europa Facebook page...(Tom Egan)
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Post by: Certified Lotus on Sunday,January 20, 2019, 11:41:12 AM: Did someone actually build that or is it a photoshop image?
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Post by: surfguitar58 on Sunday,January 20, 2019, 12:43:36 PM: Quote from: Certified Lotus on Sunday,January 20, 2019, 11:41:12 AM
Did someone actually build that or is it a photoshop image?

Happy to report it is just some bored guy in the northeast US, snowed-in with Photoshop. No sacrilege has been committed.
Tom
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Post by: Certified Lotus on Sunday,January 20, 2019, 02:58:13 PM: Phew! Thanks Tom.
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Post by: dakazman on Sunday,January 20, 2019, 04:38:15 PM: Nice work Surf! Lol must be really cold up there.
Dave
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Post by: andy harwood on Monday,January 21, 2019, 12:36:37 AM: Around '72. There was a Dodge Challenger the was modified much the same way running around Charlotte. It did have a small "hatchback" window, much like a Volvo 1800. Actually, looked pretty good.
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Post by: Bainford on Monday,January 28, 2019, 08:44:40 AM: (flak jacket on) Well,... I kind of like it. :P
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Post by: 4129R on Monday,January 28, 2019, 10:45:05 AM: Quote from: Bainford on Monday,January 28, 2019, 08:44:40 AM
(flak jacket on) Well,... I kind of like it. :P

The rear window looks much easier to fit, but the rear vision is ............ limited.

Subway Fast Food delivery service?
Title: Re: Marble, rye or whole wheat?
Post by: Lou Drozdowski on Tuesday,January 29, 2019, 08:12:12 AM: As owners we sometimes get kidded...Yea, it does look like a bread van...

Well back in 64...Inspired by the Drago designed italian version 250...

A type 11 was modified and raced at Goodwood to finish 2nd in class. The panels/roof were added, and the boxed out rear effect worked like a charm. It has returned to it's former glory and raced again at Goodwood, and finished second in class again.

So, if you ever get ribbed that your ride should be making a delivery...tell 'em this tale
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Post by: 4129R on Tuesday,January 29, 2019, 10:49:55 AM: Italian pizza delivery model.
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Post by: 1970EuropaGuy on Tuesday,January 29, 2019, 11:34:19 AM: What an era! I love funky cars, would some manufacturer dare to build something similar now?
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Post by: 4129R on Tuesday,January 29, 2019, 12:13:50 PM: Why oh why.

These were very nice cars, once.
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Post by: surfguitar58 on Wednesday,January 30, 2019, 09:03:16 PM: Aerodynamically the blunt ended stationwagon/shooting brake apparently made some sense. At speed the tapered rear end of a “fastback” would have to be ridiculously long to reduce the turbulence created by the car’s outline. The “bread van” shape just reduced the surface area of the vehicle.

Famously this trick was also attempted in yacht design. The 1974 America’s Cup 12 meter Mariner built for Ted Turner had a squared-off stern below the waterline in an attempt to reduce laminar flow wetted surface area. It failed miserably causing Turner to chastise designer Britton Chance, “For Christ’s sake Brit, even a turd is pointed at both ends!”
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Post by: Sofa King on Wednesday,March 27, 2019, 01:39:31 PM: Am I the only one who thought....”Hmmm...that wouldn’t be all that hard!
Not that I would....
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Post by: JR73 on Thursday,April 04, 2019, 11:55:00 AM: There are the Elanbulances too;
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Post by: Bainford on Monday,April 08, 2019, 08:58:36 AM: Thanks for posting. I've seen photos of the yellow Elan before. Quite like it, but the blue +2 really makes a nice looking wagon.