Was looking through the 7/29/04 issue of Autosport magazine last night and
I stumbled across this picture on page 108-109.
Looking at this car was like looking at a train wreck and I could not help
but read about this thing. Then when I noticed the caption that pointed at
the front suspension I was amused to see that "The front suspension is from
a Triumph Herald, because that's what was available and what worked best..."
According to the two page article on this car (entitled: Is this the oddest
car in British motorsport?) it holds the hillclimb record for "hybrid
machinery" at the Guernsey hillclimb with a time of 33.28 which compares to
the outright record of 29.14. The estimated total cost of this car is
3,000 pounds. The motor is a 4.2L Jag putting out about 250bhp with triple
45mm Delorto's. The exhaust was some off the shelf 90-degree piping that
the builder shaped "...into a theoretically better shape...". The gearbox
is a four speed from a late '60's Jag Mk2.
Certainly seems to be in the spirit of Peyote!
I could not find a picture searching on line so I scanned it and put it on
my site. The car is called the "Rocksand Jaquar" and five of them were
built between 1980 and 1985.
http://www.microworks.net/dave/images/gallery/rocksand.jpg
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