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designers: "Director! We've come up with ten distinct design ideas, and you can choose any one of them to base the car on!"

director: "All of them!"
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matthew1 wrote: 15 Dec 2025, 16:30
250hp is a ton for 1952.
Even more amazing is that they squeezed the 250hp out of 2.8 Liters :shock:

Americans at the time needed at least double the displacement.
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Isn’t a desmodromic valve train what Ducati race bikes have?
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850 LPT wrote: 16 Dec 2025, 11:49
matthew1 wrote: 15 Dec 2025, 16:30
250hp is a ton for 1952.
Even more amazing is that they squeezed the 250hp out of 2.8 Liters :shock:

Americans at the time needed at least double the displacement.
I don't think any American cars had that much hp no matter the displacement. Not any by Detroit's Big Three anyway...
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I’ve never really liked these - partly the odd aesthetic through the years, and they were often unstable and dangerous.

But 573 hp here! (part of why they’re dangerous)

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573 hp is waaay too much for that little car which I don't have much of an idea on the name of!

I'd say it's a 2002 from England or Italy. There's my bet, please spin the wheel, croupier.
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These are for 850 LPT - not sure where else to put them.

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How ‘bout some clues …….

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Wonder why that door doesn’t fit? Wonder why they told us that was a vent?
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Catfish?
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Pagani?
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Where is Neil? It’s a TVR. They’ve always been sort on the edge of being a kit car.
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