what is this car?

The tree does make things a bit harder!
It appears to have really deep sills but the doors, with that swage line, might be the top and bottom of MX5 Mk 1cut and shut, with the middle removed.
The screen could fit with that as well.
The rest just maybe a Nabortion.
Is the pic a screenshot from Google Earth?
 
It looksTVR-ish to me as well, so it's possibly either a TVR with some kind of body kit, or some kind of kit car, probably based on an MX5.
 


Pictures are screen shots are from google.

It is a strange looking car, reminds me of a mk3 mx-5 with the rear arches but the swage line is different. The roof is quite TVR like.

Sorry for the poor pics but it isnt worthy visiting with my own camera.

Colin
 
Was going to say earlier that it looked liked a TVR but when I searched Google for confirmation I couldn't find another like it at all, I still think it is a TVR but as suggested a special or more excitingly possibly a factory prototype.
 
I don't think it's TVR-based. The window curvature at the top rear of the door window is too curved, most of the TVR soft tops had a squarer window profile. There's nothing in my TVR books that looks to have a remotely similar door window, except for a one-off TVR (Speed6 IIRC) that later evolved into the Griffith. That looked, IMHO, slightly better than this one :mrgreen:

I did, however, see an old MX5 recently which had a similar window profile, and that would be my guess.
 
I think it needs a clandestine night time reconnaissance to look under the bonnet for more clues, are you up to it Colin??

The rear looks like mx5 where the tonneau meets the rear wing, but most of what I've seen on Google mx5 images show different positions Of the door handles for it to be Mazda, and the bonnet looks like to be front hinged whereas most mx5 pics I've seen show hinged at the bulkhead, it also looks a bit chunky and high to be Mazda?? the mystery continues...
 
smokin1942 said:
The memory took a long to swim to the surface but it arrived in the end.
It's a Parradine Pegasus and was built at the end of the 80's around Jaguar V12 mechanicals.
Try this: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topi ... asus%20V12

John
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Good work! I'd have never got that.

That's a rare beast looking at the information here:
http://classiccars.brightwells.com/view ... hp?id=1360

Spot the Mk 2 Golf light clusters!
http://classiccars.brightwells.com/imag ... /P4_12.jpg
 
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