'85 Renault 5 "LeCar" Maxi Turbo

Ditto. I'm giving the credit to Yellowbird. That has to be the LeCar.

Not sure of the year, but yup, you got it. I have a real soft spot for these, and for LeCars in general. My first car was an 86 LeCar, paid $260 for it, and it had only 60 000 kms. It had the "big" engine... 1400cc.

next?

I think the Le Car was the Americanized anemic version of the Renault Turbo 2 pictured. Fantastic car. Fast!

the next one:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1131334725.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1131334757.jpg

I believe you can drive the LeCar in "Driver 3" on PS2. It's so much fun doing stunts and wrecking it. Muhahaaa. :)

Well, the LeCar was just a regular R5. And the US cars had 1.3 or 1.4l engines, whereas most of the european ones had 1000cc engines. Archer racing sold a lot of performance stuff for them back in the 80's... you could squeeze 90 hp out of the engine with headers, a decent cam and a side draft weber. That's what I did with mine. Quirky handling too... it was front wheel drive & mid-engined. Onlt FWD car I ever owned that wanted to oversteer.

The LeCar MAXI Turbo, R5 Turbo 2 was a different beast altogether... Rear wheel drive and mid engined. I think they were 180 HP out of the box, but have heard of 400-500 hp "grenade" engines.

Corvair study by Bertone. I believe called the Testudo.

We have a winner!
NEXT!
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1131384138.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1131384159.jpg

Thats the prototype supercar that Alois Ruf announced a few years back. Mid engined 996TT powered, as I recall.

What ever became of that project?

Tim

We have a winner!
RUF R50

loose like a project

Did no one guess at this, or was it too obvious?
Abarth Carrera.

My submission:
http://members.rennlist.com/zman/Whatisthis.JPG
Hint #1: it is a one-off, one of a kind, so it probably doesn't count for this game...

Hint #2: it's not a Lexus! (See current Lexus thread...)

-Z-man.

MMM... Corvair based one-off.

Fitch Pheonix!

Phoenix based on 1966 Corvair

Yep.
Bonus question: where was the picture taken? (Hint: if you know the history of the creator, it should be a dead giveaway.)

-Z.

I'll let yellowbird take it, he knew the year

There are only 500 cars made in Lime Rock, CONN. by Jhon Fitch & CO.

the pic. was taken at Fall Vintage Festival at Limerock
Labor Day Weekend, 2003
;)

It was taken at Lime Rock, in 2003. (September 12th). BUT it wasn't the Fall Vintage Festival, but a run-of-the-mill NNJR PCA DE that Mr. Fitch visited with his Phoenix.

Ha! I've stumped the Yellowbird! :D

(Ok, so he did get the car, year of the car, and location correct. And the right year the pic was taken. BUT THE WRONG VENUE! ) :D

-Z-man.