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Daimler |
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2½
litre V-8 “Cresta” prototype DN250, 1959 |
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An optimist’s aspirations |
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before |
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during (from Daimler
Century) |
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during (from
Lanchester & Daimler) |
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after |
Who knows? Almost
certainly more like the above photographs than the artist’s impression on my
home page, but I will probably cut the rear fins down more than on the mock
up. Certainly
it will look nothing like nothing like the two drawings shown below. The first could hardly be less Daimler-like
– but then the SP 250 was not very Daimler-like either and no one worries
about that, even if they did at the time.
The second looks rather attractive.
Was this to have gone on the elongated SP250 chassis? See the Michael Riley article and the 40th
anniversary articles on the V8s and Edward Turner (links on my home page). |
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but not like
this (from
Lanchester & Daimler) |
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but this
could be a bit of all right if you could afford to build a new body (from DM
April 1999) |
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I promise not
to do a nose job like this. |
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to return to my home page