Seth
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You know how it is when you're looking for one thing and something else pops up...   You see how in that side profile photo there's a pari of carb stacks sticking up in the air? Well actually there's 12 of them in total. That's because the back half is actually Lamborghini Miura under the skin.... |
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Last Edit: Nov 1, 2011 21:44:22 GMT by Seth
Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable. |
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What?!  |
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That was on eBay about a year ago. It was looking in a bit of a sorry state but certainly saveable. I can't remember if it still had the engine or not, but it certainly floated my boat. I now the original wheels were still fitted.
I did put a post up, but even if I could find it now, the eBay link would be dead. An awesome car that I hope makes it back onto the road, or the show circuit at the very least.
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Colani Le MansRobinxr4i
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That's cool! Patina.....  |
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Sierra - here we go again! He has an illness, it's not his fault.
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qwerty
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Colani Le Mansqwerty
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That thing is unreal! Looks like a spaceship crossed with a lady toy!
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First thought: shoehorn ;D
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That's cool! Patina..... ^^ THAT ^^ was one of the pics used in the eBay advert. |
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skinnylew
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Colani Le Mansskinnylew
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wow thats a crazy looking beast!!
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Does it pivot in the middle? From what I remember, it's fixed between the two halves. I remember this because I was wondering the same when I first saw it and found out it had 'conventional' steering. The two halves actually act as one body. Shame. But still awesome. |
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ToolsnTrack
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Colani Le MansToolsnTrack
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Could be adapted to pivot if you were keen, but then does that bastardise the original concept?
One things for sure, you ARE the impact zone in that.... thing.
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roundozo
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Retroless but not for long!
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That's cool! Patina..... ^^ THAT ^^ was one of the pics used in the eBay advert. ^Is it me or does the front " cabin /capsule" look a tad small for a person. Looking at the OP the "cabin/capsule" looks to contain the driver and passenger but that real picture looks too small. Is it the soft top version? ;D |
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^^ THAT ^^ was one of the pics used in the eBay advert. ^Is it me or does the front " cabin /capsule" look a tad small for a person. Looking at the OP the "cabin/capsule" looks to contain the driver and passenger but that real picture looks too small. Is it the soft top version? ;D Looks like the 'capsule' in that pic is the right hand wheel tub shown in the OP; it's missing the canopy  *n |
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Top grammar tips!
Bought = purchased. Brought = relocated
Lose = misplace/opposite of win. Loose = your mum
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barrett
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Plastic cars with metal doors BEST
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I remember being quite flabbergasted over this when I first saw it, and spent a lot of time trying to work out exactly how it worked.... my conclusion was that it didn't. It may have a pukka Lambo V12 installed, but I don't think it was ever actually set up as a running car.... there is a photo or two somewhere of the completed car with the canopy removed showing how the seating arrangement works (you have to basically lie down) and I can't see any provision for a steering wheel or steering column. The steering linkage would have to be incredibly serpentine seeing as the steering wheel would be just infront of the wheels... unless it was rear steered? Anyway, I should point out that I HATE most of Colani's car designs, I find them incredibly offensive, even bordering on the perverse at times. He is also incredibly immovable in his views on design and seems to think that his opinion is more valid than anyone's. His whole philosophy is flawed, he believes that because straight lines don't exist in nature they shouldn't exist in any design. I'd hold up the Fiat 130 coupe as a great example of why he is completely, utterly wrong  Apart from his horrible car designs and annoying philosophy, Colani has actually produced some incredible pieces of industrial design. His infamous 'kitchen satellite' of the late '60s and some brilliant modular seating that just screams of '70s post-space age excess are all part of my dream 'man cave' scenario. He's even built a couple of houses which are lovely places. I'd just have to have something big and square, preferably by Paolo Martin, parked in the garage.... More than anything, I just can't forgive him for butchering one of my favourite 1950s designs, the Alfa Romeo Abarth Tubolare of 1958, which he turned from this:   ....into this:   |
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Somebody find me a Watling. £££ waiting! (Seriously, I want a Watling. Help me plzzzzz)
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Colani rebodied a March F1 car too. like most of his stuff, it didn't work.  |
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Coincidentally, I've just had a resin kit of the Colani Le Mans land on my desk for review.
Looking at a little more of the background I have to agree with Barrett and his comment that Colani thinks his opinion is more valid than anyone else's. Among the claims he makes are that the GT, released in 1960 and shown above by Darren was the first production kitcar, conveniently ignoring the Lotus 6 & 7, Falcons, Speedex and many more. He also apparently made the first production monocoque sportscar in 1959. So that's only two years after the Lotus Elite then.
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