The "Help me identify this car" thread

i too liked the manta. but after pricing it out it made more sense to get the ferrari.

 

It's a Volkswagen beetle chassis and motor with a fibreglass kit car body, sold in the 70's and 80's as a Nova.
They were quite popular in England

I Just looked it up, here's a link to some pics and a description

http://www.madabout-kitcars.com/kitcar/kitcar_details.php?158

 

Is it four wheel drive? It has plenty of ground clearance...

 

Not a Sterling; it's a Fiberfab Jamaican.

 

What ever fiberglass kit car it was, there was one on the Denver Craigslist for really really cheap. Seems the engine was shot and the owner did not want to fix it. Was something like $1500 as-is. I think the cockpit raised upwards sorta like a fighter jet thing.

James in Denver

 

They all started from the same point, a beetle chassis. I think the Fiberfab Kamaican was the first, loosely (very loosely indeed) based on the GT40. From there knock-offs were produced in many countries under different names. The Nova was quite succesful, there was the FT Bonito, the list goes on. Suits a poser.

 

What were they smoking!

 

Sterling / Nova. Two pictures I snapped in March at the Retro Classics exhibition in Stuttgart:
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Isn't that in Clock Work Orange?

 

The Clockwork car was designed much earlier, no relationship between the two.

 

Someone else had the same question at The Car Lounge:
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=4175128

It's the Adam's Probe according to the 2nd poster.

 

yep i believe you are correct.

 

My mistake, another poster says Nova Sterling or something like that. So not sure... I remember asking "What is this car?" to something I saw online. It looked the same as that.

 

I could easily be wrong, but I thought the Jamaican was based on a TR-3/TR-4. IIrc, it didn't look at all GT-40ish , it was its own design, a svelte front engined coupe.

 

there is also the cENTAUR the Nova and the adams probe 15 and 16.. all very similar..

 

It is a NOVA GT
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Adams probe 15 and 16 is the original car and the 15 was the car used in Clockwork orange, later came copies as the Concept Centaur and the Nova GT and Fiberfab Bonito..

Nik

 

This one went on for 6 months and never came to a definitive answer... Usually only takes that crew a few minutes to come up with some obscure stuff.

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=3580967&page=1

Any ideas?

-R

 

piece of junk?

 

Screenshot from TV, wondering what it is - should be easy for you Americans...
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Lincoln Continental Mark IV.

1972 or 73? Before the bumpers got bigger.

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/1972-1976-lincoln-continental-mark-iv1.htm

 

One minute, I love this forum!! Thanks a lot!

 

'CANNON' fans are rejoicing.....

 

Wow...my Dad used to watch that show every week. I competely forgot about it!

 

My parents saw this car in Germany and are wondering what they are.
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