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SeanDezart

SeanDezart

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Was there another car very similar to the Gilburn Invader/Genie at the same time , This has been racking my brain for a few days ! I'm sure that there was another similar bodied car, in the same vein as the Warwick and Peerless look similar.
Any help ?
 
? except the gordon keeble , scimitar used the ford lump like the gilberns did or do you mean ginetta ?? you dont mean TVR taimar/3000m do you ??

give us a tad more info buddy
 
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The only car that looked similar was the Scimitar. I used to have a Gilbern estate and everyone thought it was a Scimitar. Used the same Ford V6 engine but with MGB suspension and back axle. I cannot think of anything like that unless your thinking of an early Lotus which was very angular.
 
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Gordon Keeble

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Gilbern Invader

Both quite similar, the Gordon Keeble used V8 muscle though!
Cheerz,
JEZ
 
Maybe I was confusing the Genie and the Invader (different badges ?) but I'd take the Gordon Keeble anyday - proof that the English can make italian/US hybridz as well as the swiss/italians/germans.....

Gives some serious credence to all the Z/ZX hybridz too, no ?
 
Hi Sean , you got me thinking too so I checked my library and found what you did,the Gilbern GT 2+2 59/67,the Genie 4 seat 66/70 and the Invader 4 seat or estate,69/74 I am sure I went to the factory once it was up in the valleys above Cardiff and it was half a dozen lock up garages. the Peerless GT 4 seater 57/60 and the Warwick 4 seat which was mainly the peerless under a different name made by the same man and the Gordon Keeble 64/67, i drove a GK once up to London for a customer of the garage I was an apprentice at, fastest thing I had driven did 135mph up the M4 when it was only the last bit of it into London.I love the GK badge, its a Turtle.
You forgot to mention the very lovely French hybrid builder Facel Vega, stunning cars.
Adrian
 
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The only other car of similar design I can think of is called a Venezia built by Touring of Milan in 63/64. Its a Sunbeam Rapier with an alloy body on it. I took the pics of this one at the Ferrari Owners Club, of which I am a member, annual concours just up the road from Billing on the same weekend.
 

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That's a sweet little car (the front reminds me though of a Singer) !

Maybe I'm thinking of the Alvis, interesting how all these cars were similarly designed, like MG copying Fairladys :) ! And the 2000GT and 240Zs looking similar - thought patterns and trends always seem to move along the same lane only parellel !

An HK500, now that's a beast to compete against the Turtle - there should be a comparison made in Classic and Sporstcar of those two and through in a 330GTC and Maserati 3500GT for fun !

All got rear fins, I think like the earlier cars mentioned, Peerless etc - spin off from the States '50s designs.........?
 
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