This Car Is Related To The One Above because...

Porsche 917


Porsche 935

Yes he did, it was probably his first solution rather than his final....

In the late 40s and early 50s quite a few cars sported a central light. Usually, a car would come with two headlights and you would purchase a separate spotlight or foglight (sometimes one of each) that was then normally clamped to a bumper. For some manufacturers, particular of more aspirational models like the Tucker, it was deemed prudent to include this auxilliary light in their new cars. It was shortlived, as these things sometimes are. Perhaps the most infamous car to be so equipped in the UK is the Rover P4, often nicknamed the Cyclops.

An achievement for which it won the Dewar Trophy in 1951. Another company who were experimenting with gas turbine propulsion and who also received the Dewar Trophy (admittedly not for their gas turbine work and much earlier for endurance in 1922), was Armstrong Siddeley (AS). AS did a lot of work with aircraft engineering which no doubt influenced their cars which often featured interesting design and construction. A personal favourite is the slightly gawky Hurricane, a two door drophead coupé that really couldn't be mistaken for anything else, especially with the peculiar scallops on the front wings.

A car made by an aircraft manufacturer you say, have a flying one, but it's landing technique needs a bit of work.

The Land Rover series I, II, and III (commonly referred to as series Land Rovers, to distinguish them from later models) are off-road vehicles produced by the British manufacturer Rover Company that were inspired by the US-built Willys Jeep. As the original Jeep had no doors, the Land Rover was the first mass-produced civilian four-wheel drive car with doors on it. In 1992, Land Rover claimed that 70% of all the vehicles they had built were still in use.

The first prototype had a distinctive feature — the steering wheel was mounted in the middle of the vehicle. It hence became known as the "centre steer". It was built on a Jeep chassis and used the engine and gearbox out of a Rover P3 saloon car. The bodywork was handmade out of an aluminium/magnesium alloy called Birmabright, to save on steel, which was closely rationed. The choice of colour was dictated by military surplus supplies of aircraft cockpit paint, so early vehicles only came in various shades of light green. The first pre-production Land Rovers were being developed in late 1947 by a team led by engineer Arthur Goddard.

Tank tractor! Wow.

Caterpillar?

The Morris engine in the Lamborghini is probably the one found in the CV, which was certainly around at the same time and sported a six cylinder 3.5 litre engine. The most remarkable thing about these trucks is that they have absolutely nothing remarkable about them from what little I can find out. Photographs and bits of information I have found makes them appear to be a truck that did everything and was used by everyone, and entirely conventional in every way. As always, I'm happy for someone to prove otherwise and shed some interesting light on this seemingly mundane vehicle that just got on with getting stuff done and then disappeared pretty much completely.