"Name That Car" game

[Yellowbird RS]

'85 Renault 5 "LeCar" Maxi Turbo

[86 911]

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

[notfarnow]

Originally posted by Yellowbird RS
'75 Renault 5 "LeCar" Maxi Turbo

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?

[SLO-BOB]

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

[Yellowbird RS]

the next one:

[86 911]

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

[notfarnow]

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.

[ErVikingo]

Corvair study by Bertone. I believe called the Testudo.

[Yellowbird RS]

Originally posted by ErVikingo
Corvair study by Bertone. I believe called the Testudo.

We have a winner!
NEXT!

[tchanson]

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

[Yellowbird RS]

Originally posted by tchanson
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

[Yellowbird RS]

[Yellowbird RS]

Originally posted by tchanson

What ever became of that project?

Tim

loose like a project

[Z-man]

Originally posted by 86 911
Come on... take a guess .

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

My submission:

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.

[notfarnow]

Originally posted by Z-man
Did no one guess at this, or was it too obvious?
Abarth Carrera.

My submission:

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!

[Yellowbird RS]

Phoenix based on 1966 Corvair

[Z-man]

Originally posted by Yellowbird RS
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.

[notfarnow]

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

[Yellowbird RS]

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

-Z.

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

[Z-man]

Originally posted by Yellowbird RS
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!

(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! )

-Z-man.