What is this car?

[ColdScrip]

I took these snap shots while I was in Istanbul, Turkey. I can't figure out what it is.

 

http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww192/ColdScrip/SAM_0557.jpg

 

http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww192/ColdScrip/SAM_0558.jpg

 

 

Oh and heres a pic of a Ferrari and a Porsche? They were in London's airport.

 

http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww192/ColdScrip/IMG_0088.jpg

 

http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww192/ColdScrip/IMG_0092.jpg

 

http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww192/ColdScrip/IMG_0089.jpg

 

http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww192/ColdScrip/IMG_0091.jpg

[Tman]

looks like a pantera or bricklin

[nomad]

looks like a pantera or bricklin

Bricklin SV1

[ColdScrip]

The Bricklin SV-1 was a gull-wing door sports car assembled in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. The body panels were manufactured in a separate plant in Minto, New Brunswick. Manufactured from 1974 until early 1976 for the U.S. market, the car was the creation of Malcolm Bricklin, an American millionaire who had previously founded Subaru of America. The car was designed by Herb Grasse.[1] Due to Bricklin's lack of experience in the auto industry, coupled with the funding problems [2], the Bricklin factory was not able to produce vehicles fast enough to make a profit. As a result, only 2,854 cars were built before the company went into receivership, owing the New Brunswick government $23 million.

 

 

 

How the heck did one find its way over there? Wow.

[Killtodie]

it also had a ton of safety features, a new thing for 1970's, adding a lot of weight.

 

the gullwing doors had a feature where they blow off in an emergency

[AutoBodyGod]

I painted one about 12 years ago, I do believe they were powered by a 351 Ford Windsor.

[silverarrow89]

My dad worked at a benz store in Kingston NY (Kingston Imports) back in the late '70's and they had two there...he took for me for a ride in one around my 12th birthday...pretty cool. I saw one about a month ago in PA.

[Fanta]

That is on one of my cars to buy. My dad almost had one when he was younger.

[Dave-O]

Hmm, interesting. I've got a buddy with one sitting under a tarp in his backyard. It is indeed powered by a 351 cubic-inch Ford Windsor V8.

[psu_Crash]

There is one of these sitting that doesn't run about a mile down the road from my house. Been sitting there for at least 10 years just rotting away.

[billmongold]

at least the body wont rust, it's fiberglass.

[averse]

craiglist listings

[ucw458]

wikipedia quote

Power came from a 360 cu in (5,899 cc) AMC 360 V8 for 1974. Later cars used a 351 cu in (5,752 cc) Ford Windsor V8

[JessN16]

I used to have one. I owned #2417. Great thing about the serial numbers on that car were that they were sequential. You could introduce yourself to other Bricklin owners as "Hi, I'm #2417."

 

The car was one of the safest ever built. Doors had massive crash beams in them and the window only opened down to your shoulder. Car had a full roll cage and I think if an 18-wheeler hit it from behind, it would total the truck.

 

The problem was that they were seriously overweight, had a borderline-dangerous rear suspension and the brakes weren't nearly enough. I owned one of the 351 Windsor cars, which were the most common and the least desirable, since they only came with an FMX 3-speed transmission. Noisy, leaked water all over during a rainstorm. But all you had to do was hit the door switch, and on a car like mine that had been converted over from hydraulic to air doors (reason? with hydro-doors, if your battery went dead, you were stuck in the car or outside it), and you'd hear "PSSSHH!!" and people would come from miles around. Including the girls.

 

Rear end in all the cars is out of the AMC Javelin. A lot of Bricklin owners financed some improvements by switching out the rear end to a Ford Nine and then selling the stock rear end to Javelin collectors. Lift the hood and you'd see parts from every manufacturer: Ford motor, AMC washer fluid basket, GM steering column, etc.

 

The cars were not painted. They were acrylic overlays on top of fiberglass, making a composite sandwich. The color was mixed into the acrylic batch from the get-go. If you scratched the car, no big deal -- the stuff underneath was body color. Mine had been repainted over the factory color.

 

The original motors were the 360 Javelin, and you could get them with either a 4-speed stick or an auto. Not a lot of AMC cars with the auto trans in them. Designer steering wheel and rims. If you've got factory steering wheel and rims, you probably could sell them and buy an entire car.

 

O-60 on my car was around 10 seconds. The poor Windsor could only make 150-175 hp with all that emissions gear. For some reason, the AMC engine didn't have to have it, and it made 200+ HP and the car would move. High-speed cornering, though, was basically done by the Hail Mary method. And those cars wouldn't drive for ^$ in the rain.

 

I miss mine, but they're a full-time job. And you MUST have a garage, or the sun will heat-warp the body panels and then it will leak all over you. Always right over the crotch, too. And about five years ago, State Farm quit writing insurance for them, so the only option left is collector car insurance.

 

Jess