|
|
|
|
| Author |
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Posts: 3,963
|
Need help IDing a kit car
Guy runs a local ad advertising a "Porsche 1600" so I go look at it and took a bunch of pictures.
I Looked for kit cars called "Python", other than company in Oz I couldn't find any references. I'm thinking early VW platform is what it is built on...... http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j100/GWN7/Python/019.jpg 
__________________
Bunch of old cars 
|
||
10-20-2011, 03:18 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Posts: 3,963
|
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j100/GWN7/Python/017.jpg
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j100/GWN7/Python/016.jpg http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j100/GWN7/Python/015.jpg
__________________
Bunch of old cars
|
||
|
10-20-2011, 03:19 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Posts: 3,963
|
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j100/GWN7/Python/014.jpg
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j100/GWN7/Python/013.jpg http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j100/GWN7/Python/012.jpg http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j100/GWN7/Python/011.jpg
__________________
Bunch of old cars
|
||
|
10-20-2011, 03:23 PM
|
|
|
Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2001
Posts: 9,569
|
VW chassis.
Those old tires might be worth more than the car to a Concours freak.
__________________
'66 911 #304065 Irischgruen 96 993 Carrera 2 Polarsilber '81 R65 Ex-'71 911 PCA C-Stock Club Racer #806 (Sold 5/15/13) Ex-'88 Carrera (Sold 3/29/02) Ex-'91 Carrera 2 Cabriolet (Sold 8/20/04) Ex-'89 944 Turbo S (Sold 8/21/20) |
||
|
10-20-2011, 03:24 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Posts: 3,963
|
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j100/GWN7/Python/010.jpg
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j100/GWN7/Python/009.jpg http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j100/GWN7/Python/008.jpg http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j100/GWN7/Python/007.jpg
__________________
Bunch of old cars
|
||
|
10-20-2011, 03:24 PM
|
|
|
Registered
|
Interesting, looks like a "non-bondo" car.
Steve 73 911 T MFI Coupe, Aubergine |
||
|
10-20-2011, 03:24 PM
|
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Posts: 3,963
|
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j100/GWN7/Python/006.jpg
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j100/GWN7/Python/005.jpg http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j100/GWN7/Python/004.jpg http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j100/GWN7/Python/003.jpg
__________________
Bunch of old cars
|
||
|
10-20-2011, 03:25 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Posts: 3,963
|
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j100/GWN7/Python/002.jpg
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j100/GWN7/Python/001.jpg
__________________
Bunch of old cars
|
||
|
10-20-2011, 03:27 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Posts: 3,963
|
What he told me about the car.....his sister bought a house from a estate sale and the car was in the garage (owner had died two years before). The neibour said he thought the car came from California. There is no paperwork or serial number (could be found) on the car.
__________________
Bunch of old cars
|
||
|
10-20-2011, 03:36 PM
|
|
|
Control Group
|
Maybe a small South American builder?
__________________
She was the kindest person I ever met |
||
|
10-20-2011, 04:01 PM
|
|
|
The Unsettler
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Lantanna TX
Posts: 23,885
|
All those pics and no body profile?
|
||
|
10-20-2011, 04:28 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Marietta GA
Posts: 2,560
|
|||
|
10-20-2011, 04:45 PM
|
|
|
|
Grappler
|
Quote:
I was thinking the exact same thing.
__________________
Grappler Know Gi / No Gi 1976 RSR Backdate (Turbo 3.2) |
||
|
10-20-2011, 04:46 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Marietta GA
Posts: 2,560
|
Quote:
 
|
||
|
10-20-2011, 04:50 PM
|
|
|
The Unsettler
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Lantanna TX
Posts: 23,885
|
That's kind of interesting in an odd sort of way. It's a mash up of a lot of classic style que's. Maybe it's the low profile throwing off the proportions but the wheelbase looks too long for a VW tub unless it was stretched.
Quote:
|
||
|
10-20-2011, 04:55 PM
|
|
|
Un-Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Upstate New York
Posts: 902
|
__________________
Don 1988 Targa |
||
|
10-20-2011, 04:56 PM
|
|
|
The Unsettler
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Lantanna TX
Posts: 23,885
|
Yeah, xke stingray blend kind of sums it up.
|
||
|
10-20-2011, 04:58 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 10,319
|
Gauges are 356 ... but not C/SC (redline starts too early on tach)
__________________
IN MY EXPERIENCE, SUSAN, WITHIN THEIR HEADS TOO MANY HUMANS SPEND A LOT OF TIME IN THE MIDDLE OF WARS THAT HAPPENED CENTURIES AGO. |
||
|
10-20-2011, 05:15 PM
|
|
|
Je suis une Canadien
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Digby County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Posts: 321
|
In Photo 5 there is an emblem above the PYTHON lettering - appears to be shaped similar to a maple leaf. I wonder if the Forgotten Fibreglass guy was on to something when he suggested British build, but possibly Canadian.
As stated, Gauges look 356 as does the front and rear lids, plus possibly the gas tank. Rims too. Beyond that am not if I see a lot of Porsche showing through.
__________________
John B Nova Scotia CANADA 1999 996 Coupe (Felix) 1980 911SC (former keeper 2010-2015) |
||
|
10-20-2011, 06:01 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Santa Cruz Ca
Posts: 782
|
VW chassis, MGB windshield, no Porsche content other than possibly the gauges. I realize tastes are subjective but it looks (to me) as clumsy and amateurish as most of the kit cars of it's era.
regards, Phil |
||
|
10-20-2011, 06:42 PM
|
|
2004 Mazda Miata
RSR Backdate
