Monstrosity

Paul Spencer · Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2018 10:59 pm Post subject: Monstrosity

I guess someone must know something about this car http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24874/preview_lot/5148704/?category=list&length=10&page=2. Chris?

John Murch · Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 6:33 am Post subject:

Hopefully it hasn’t seen the light of day very often.

Christopher Carnley · Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 10:32 am Post subject:

It becomes even worse when you peer beneath the surface, clearly from the atelier of Cobbol de Tupp.

Why does it remind me of sweet pretentious Amber Butchcart the fashion historian?

So that is the special that TO was on about, batch of 7!

Paul Spencer · Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 10:49 am Post subject:

I did check that it wasn't owned by a member before I posted!

John Robins · Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 12:34 pm Post subject:

http://imcdb.org/vehicle_131727-Bentley-AB3363-1924.html

Robert Craven · Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 2:04 pm Post subject:

School for Scoundrels was on TV recently and I thought there was something recognisable about the car. The site you mention says it's a 4 1/2, but I'd have thought this picture looks more like a three, though it seems distorted and maybe I'm missing something.
Picture: http://pics.imcdb.org/22337/12771799_10156591585235434_5611793129600808223_o.jpg

John Murch · Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 2:13 pm Post subject:

According to Clare Hay, its Ch. AB3363
It seems to have had a number of bodies and is now a vdp tourer.

Robert Craven · Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 3:13 pm Post subject:

Yes, I've seen that, but doesn't it look as though the car in the picture I posted has a fixed starting handle?
Perhaps the photo is misleading or a different car.

John Robins · Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 3:43 pm Post subject:

I didn’t mean that the school for scoundrels car and the subject vehicle were one and the same originally, merely that the one put me in mind of the other. And I ain’t saying which is which!

John Murch · Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 3:47 pm Post subject:

[quote="Robert Craven"]Yes, I've seen that, but doesn't it look as though the car in the picture I posted has a fixed starting handle?
Perhaps the photo is misleading or a different car.[/quote

See what you mean!
Perhaps the starter had packed up and they had just inserted the handle.

Gareth Thomas · Joined: 02 Nov 2017 Posts: 5 Location: New Hampshire, USA

I'm surprised the estimate is so high, especially compared to a standard R-Type. It will be interesting to see what it actually achieves.

On the design side of things I can't quite tell what they're going for. It has the large fin inline with the driver, an iconic feature of the D-type Jaguar. This is an aerodynamic feature, but I can't see the point with those two spare tires/bobtail body on the other side of the car. A related note, why are the rear wheels bigger than the fronts? Make them all the same and you only need one spare tire. To further confuse things the front of the car wants to be a vintage Bentley. Vintage Bentleys, and most vintage cars actually, are really tall, but they cut the front down on this car. In fact it is cut down so much that the body has to hump up for the windscreen.
I'm not opposed to Bentley Specials, just badly done ones.

Christopher Carnley · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 9:04 am Post subject:

Christopher Carnley · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 9:57 am Post subject:

Seen at the lodge on the South rim of the Grand Canyon in 2010, British Made Le Mans 8, courtesy of Racing Green Engineering. Llanelli.

Christopher Carnley · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 6:42 pm Post subject:

MK VI Special on B180NZ in 1967, being slot car modelled.

Now in South Africa with a Robinson body.

Charles Skinner · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2018 1:43 pm Post subject:

Cruft's is usually held in March, well worth entering it.