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L. (Testaroja)
Junior Member
Username: Testaroja
Post Number: 83
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 30, 2003 - 12:01 am: | |
Another reason why the doors strakes are in the testarossa is because the holes were to big for USA and Switzerland regulations.
Kit cars that I see around look very ugly, specially the fiero based car, the corvette looks stupid with the long boat nose, the easiest way to tell is looking at the wheelbase. And all testarossa replicas look frankly like ••••. |
Brian W (Jetx)
Junior Member
Username: Jetx
Post Number: 55
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Monday, July 28, 2003 - 3:16 pm: | |
I don't know the laws for each territory, but apparently there is one for how large 'intakes' can be without a grill of some sort.
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Lucas Taratus (Karmavore)
Member
Username: Karmavore
Post Number: 341
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Monday, July 28, 2003 - 3:07 pm: | |
Dogs, cats and runaway babies.
Luke. |
Coop (360)
Junior Member
Username: 360
Post Number: 140
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Monday, July 28, 2003 - 3:06 pm: | |
quote:(required for USA and Switzerland)
How come?
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Brian W (Jetx)
Junior Member
Username: Jetx
Post Number: 54
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Monday, July 28, 2003 - 11:57 am: | |
>>I have seen a Cizeta in person and it doesn't look like a Testarossa at all. More like a mutant Diablo. There were only ~6 made so they aren't exactly popping up in car lots<<
There were 8 made total. The first two went to the Sultan of Brunei who later on sent them to Pininfarina and had the interiors and motors yanked. Pininfarina installed 512TR engines and transaxles. The Cizeta at Marconi museum is one of those cars.
The Cizeta is being relaunched at Concorso Italiano, and the spyder version will debut.
I had the priveledge of seeing the Spyder a few weeks ago and took video (and stills) of the new car. The engine at 6k RPM sounds like bulls and banshees coming to get you.
I've always liked the Cizeta, but with the vertical intake slats, not the "Testarossa" slats (required for USA and Switzerland). Only 2 cars were built with the Testarossa slats. The rest had the vertical slats (which are carbon fiber)
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Mark (Markpdx)
Junior Member
Username: Markpdx
Post Number: 128
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Monday, July 28, 2003 - 4:14 am: | |
I have seen a Cizeta in person and it doesn't look like a Testarossa at all. More like a mutant Diablo. There were only ~6 made so they aren't exactly popping up in car lots. |
Thomas I (Wax)
New member
Username: Wax
Post Number: 6
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Monday, July 28, 2003 - 4:13 am: | |
Cizeta-Moroder, perhaps?
16 cylinders mounted transversely into a mid engine layout.
http://www.askthedrunk.com/seedyrom/show/cizeta.jpg
Found the photo earlier on, as it was posted by Faisal Khan (Tvrfreak) as the topic "For Kenney"
http://www.ferrarichat.com/discus/messages/21/288899.html?1059329320 |
Thomas I (Wax)
New member
Username: Wax
Post Number: 5
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Monday, July 28, 2003 - 4:09 am: | |
Cizeta-Moroder, perhaps?
http://www.askthedrunk.com/seedyrom/show/cizeta.jpg |
Jeff Green (Carguy)
Member
Username: Carguy
Post Number: 400
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 8:05 am: | |
Hello Gary....one of the ways to tell a fake TR is to look at the wheels and tires. Real TRs wheel faces are practically flush with the side of the car, in other words they are not recessed or dished inwards. Also a quick glance at the interior tells the story. The kit car proportions are close at times, and in one case I saw a "reproduction" that was so good I had to look through the engine cover to tell if it was real or fake. The guy had a correct interior, and the body looked perfect, he had spent more than 40k to build this car. You can buy a real TR for only slightly more! Whatever that car was doesn't sound like it's worth loosing sleep over. |
Mike Charness (Mcharness)
Member
Username: Mcharness
Post Number: 775
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 8:01 am: | |
Then it was probably a kit car... TR look-similar body on the shorter Fiero chassis. |
gary green (Minuke)
Junior Member
Username: Minuke
Post Number: 93
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 7:59 am: | |
James,
The fender's on the car looked like they were slightly flared. When I looked down the side of the car It looked wavy. I'm thinking the car might have been fiberglass. |
James Glickenhaus (Napolis)
Intermediate Member
Username: Napolis
Post Number: 2178
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 7:34 am: | |
A kit car. There are several that look like weird TR's.
(You have to describe it better) |
Jonas Petersen (Karsten335)
Member
Username: Karsten335
Post Number: 505
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 7:29 am: | |
a 348 |
gary green (Minuke)
Junior Member
Username: Minuke
Post Number: 92
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 7:24 am: | |
James,
It was not an NSX. |
James Glickenhaus (Napolis)
Intermediate Member
Username: Napolis
Post Number: 2177
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 7:20 am: | |
An NSX |
gary green (Minuke)
Junior Member
Username: Minuke
Post Number: 91
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 7:18 am: | |
As I was driving home from a friend's house I stopped at a car lot to see what they had. I saw a car that looked like a Testarossa, although I don't believe it was. Something about the vehicle
didn't look right. Does anyone have an Idea what I might have seen. |