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Rarities On The Road
Disco Matt:
Even fairly recent Citroens seem to have faded from view. The ZX and Xantia for example were once fairly common cars. Now I might see a couple in a week if I'm lucky.
Had a ZX as my first car. 1.9D. It was a bit of an animal as although it didn't have much power it had a lot of torque and no power steering, so it'd fight you all the time in slow corners!
Range Rover Blues:
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--- Quote from: Range Rover Blues on March 26, 2008, 19:17:34 ---How about this one for rare
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Is that a "C" type ?
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Rarer than that, much rarer. Any more guesses?
Boddle:
--- Quote from: Dr Evil on March 26, 2008, 19:21:15 ---
--- Quote from: Range Rover Blues on March 26, 2008, 19:17:34 ---How about this one for rare
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Is that a "C" type ?
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No an XKSS was based on the D-Type they converted a few to a road cars (120 of them I believe).
Range Rover Blues:
--- Quote from: Boddle on March 27, 2008, 08:10:59 ---No an XKSS was based on the D-Type they converted a few to a road cars (120 of them I believe).
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Try 16 :shock: that's right they got as far as finishing 16 of the beauties before the factory burned down along with all the jigs, tooling and finished bodies they had.
Streve McQueen had one when it was new, he sold it after a couple of years and regretted it so much he bought it back for many times it's sale price but he never got it finished. After his death the car was sold by his estate at auction for $147,000 in 1983 (ish) so lord alone knows what they are worth now.
Some poor sod was running his in a classic car rally and a dizzy bird backed her SUV into it. I bet the insurance had kittens.
A massively pretty car and possibly one of my 10.
Boddle:
Not as rare as XK13 or quite as good looking either
(Photo's from http://www.supercars.net/cars/3833.html)
a 1 of I believe was intended for Le-Man 24hour but they change rules so jaguar withdrew the car was used later for a press review when first show the V12 E-Type in 1972 not sure of detail but driver lost control and died as a result. tThe car was rebuild for the Jaguar Museum and later the stylist had it in the studios when styling the XK220.
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