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Title: Has anybody seen it ..? Post by: Kaferdog on February 10, 2010, 07:53:12 am I was was at work today and on the tv was on "My Classic Car" . Now the volume was off, so i could not hear anything..It looked like a Like a big luxury car from the late fifties with fins ... it had some airplane like controls for wipers and lights ...Never seen one like it ..! then they opened the trunk and it was a what looked like a 36 horse engine with dual carbs ..!!! ...By the time I could get the volume up it was over...!....Has anyone ever seen it ?
Title: Re: Has anybody seen it ..? Post by: nicolas on February 10, 2010, 16:52:59 pm no and i hope to keep it that way ;D
Title: Re: Has anybody seen it ..? Post by: axam48ida on February 10, 2010, 17:05:12 pm I was was at work today and on the tv was on "My Classic Car" . Now the volume was off, so i could not hear anything..It looked like a Like a big luxury car from the late fifties with fins ... it had some airplane like controls for wipers and lights ...Never seen one like it ..! then they opened the trunk and it was a what looked like a 36 horse engine with dual carbs ..!!! ...By the time I could get the volume up it was over...!....Has anyone ever seen it ? It may have been a Tatra. CZ built.....if you read about Tatra's history and how porsche was able to copy ideas and patentswhen hilter opened up all the patent rights during his takeover Title: Re: Has anybody seen it ..? Post by: Donny B. on February 10, 2010, 17:09:33 pm Did the car look like this one?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VW_Rometsch_Coupe_1959_vr_TCE.jpg Title: Re: Has anybody seen it ..? Post by: javabug on February 10, 2010, 19:45:13 pm ??? ??? ??? Maybe ??? ??? ???
(http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk267/MRAKdesign/PebbleBeach2008/IMG_4908.jpg) http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=315024&highlight=fiberglass+bumpers Title: Re: Has anybody seen it ..? Post by: Kaferdog on February 10, 2010, 20:41:22 pm ??? ??? ??? Maybe ??? ??? ??? (http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk267/MRAKdesign/PebbleBeach2008/IMG_4908.jpg) http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=315024&highlight=fiberglass+bumpers Yes thats the car....!!!!...That is it !...Where did you find that ?...and what is it called ? Title: Re: Has anybody seen it ..? Post by: Rennsurfer on February 11, 2010, 08:09:48 am VERY cool car.
Title: Re: Has anybody seen it ..? Post by: javabug on February 11, 2010, 17:21:27 pm It was built by Paxton. Check out the link to theSamba under the pic...some limited info in there. A very interesting car—all fiberglass including the bumpers.
Those pics are from Pebble Beach I think, but I got a chance to see it when the Porsche Parade was in Hershey a few years ago. Title: Re: Has anybody seen it ..? Post by: Kaferdog on February 11, 2010, 17:53:56 pm Java Thanks ..! Here's a link with more Pics...http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z9935/Paxton-Phoenix.aspx (http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z9935/Paxton-Phoenix.aspx)
Title: Re: Has anybody seen it ..? Post by: kingsburgphil on February 14, 2010, 05:32:23 am Did the car look like this one? Here's a pic of a worthless Rometsch coupe that I had for 15 yrs. and finally sold. Your link/pic, same car, post restoration on displayhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VW_Rometsch_Coupe_1959_vr_TCE.jpg at the VW museum. Time and $$$ heals all wounds :D Title: Re: Has anybody seen it ..? Post by: Fiatdude on February 14, 2010, 07:59:01 am Paxton is correct -- they were extremely light weight -- all of them were suppose to be steam powered but they engines weren't working out and they ran out of parts -- Well Paxton had bought a 356 and completely disassembled it to pull engineering inspiration for his cars -- when they ran out of parts for the last one -- they took all the running gear for the 356 and installed it this one -- truly a one off car
Title: Re: Has anybody seen it ..? Post by: Kaferdog on February 14, 2010, 08:20:22 am A very interesting story about this car ..! it not what you would expect to see a motor like that in .....!!!
Title: Re: Has anybody seen it ..? Post by: johnl on February 17, 2010, 19:39:33 pm Paxton is correct -- they were extremely light weight -- all of them were suppose to be steam powered but they engines weren't working out and they ran out of parts -- Well Paxton had bought a 356 and completely disassembled it to pull engineering inspiration for his cars -- when they ran out of parts for the last one -- they took all the running gear for the 356 and installed it this one -- truly a one off car Very early on a recent Sunday morning I also saw this show. Dennis Gage is a bit much to take, but sometimes he has interesting cars and this was certainly one of them. The info above is correct and about the only thing I can add is that this car is only about 100 pounds heavier than the original 356 as per statements made on that program. One last thing I learned was that Paxton and McCulloch were both from the same source and these were the middle and last names of Robert P. McCulloch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_P._McCulloch |