DOTS: Classic car meet
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Tatra 57 Sport
Pontiac Bonneville Convertible
Fiat 850 Sport Spider
Jaguar S-Type
Mercedes-Benz 230 CE
Škoda Felicia
Tatra 613-2
Tatra 54
Jaguar E-Type V12
Austin-Healey 3000 MK1More pictures from the car meet will be posted tomorrow. So stay tuned!
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@Marco-S That Healey is outfitted for rallies. The hump in the boot lid is so they could fit a second spare tire in there. Side exhaust offers a modicum of ground clearance. Could be an ex-works car, as that stuff wasn't offered to the general public.
Never seen so many Tatras in one place before.
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@Old-Busted-Hotness said in DOTS: Classic car meet:
Never seen so many Tatras in one place before.
The Lane in Tennessee has a surprising number of them.
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@Marco-S GIB the Tatra 613-2!
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@e90m3 Well, in the US, one is a surprising number, but I get your point. I need to see that place some day.
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@Old-Busted-Hotness Wow! I didn't know that. You've got good knowledge about classics.
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@Old-Busted-Hotness One at a car museum isn't really surprising, but 8, that is.
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@Marco-S My memory is like the Queen Alexandra birdwing butterfly, in that it's colorful, flits prettily hither and thither, and is almost completely extinct.
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@Old-Busted-Hotness
Prepped for rallies? More or less, yes. A works car? Unlikely. It seems to me more like a nice tribute "works" car, or an attempt to replicate a works car.For example, I don't think rally "big Healeys" had louvred bonnets (it was more like a track racer mod... but surely the rally ones would have benefitted from them!). The faired-in auxiliary lights are nicely done, but then the shape of the fairing is much more elaborate (and longer) than the one you can see in pics of the rally Healeys (those were shorter and simpler).
Surprisingly for a rally Healey-inspired car it does not have a hardtop, but those may be rather expensive nowadays.
You are right that the hump for the twin spares, the side exhaust and so on are typical works rally traits, but they wouldn't be difficult to replicate by a talented bodyshop man/mechanic.
Hell, I'm sure there are more than a couple of outfits in the UK ready to sell you everything you need to turn your Healey into a more than passable works lookalike.
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@Marco-S
Those Tatras (all of them) are fabulous!Quite like the dainty Škoda too, and the little Fiat Spider – an early one (one of the very first jobs done by young Giugiaro when he was working at Bertone.)
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@Marco-S GIB s-type (to DD) and A-H (for fun and weekends)
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@AuthiCooper1300 You're right. Works rally/race cars would have the triangular vents in the front fenders rather than bonnet louvers (on second look it does have them, but they're not correct (too many fins)), and of course they'd be RHD.
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@Old-Busted-Hotness
Well spotted! I did notice the side vents but did not bother to blow up the picture to count the slats.I love the fact that Pat Moss was one of the best Big Healey drivers.
On the absence of the hardtop... it may be a blessing in disguise.
There is a couple of my acquaintance who rally an MGB on TSD events. After many years looking for one they finally managed to acquire a secondhand glassfibre hardtop, which they lovingly restored, changing all the seals and everything.
They've only used it once. It leaked so much more than the soft top!
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@AuthiCooper1300 I bet it doesn't leak heat, though. You gotta be some kind of iron man to run one of those in a Big Healey when it's above freezing. Although the side exhaust would help with that.
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... which makes Pat's exploits even more fabulous (she was a strong girl though).
Indeed it does get very hot in there. Even with the exhaust outside the body of the car there is enormous heat soak from the engine (probably also the gearbox).
So much so that the works hardtop had an oblong vent at the rear which looks suspiciously as the one fitted to the Mini Van.
