By Robert Emslie
Well, this is the big weekend in Indianapolis: the Greatest Spectacle in Racing, the Indy 500. Before you all prepare your TV-facing armchairs and ensure you have enough milk in the house to toast the winner – you do know that each year’s Indy champion is expected to chug the moo-juice, don’t you? Before any of that, let’s start off the Indy weekend with a little contest of our own that we like to call, the Mystery Car.
Not quite as venerated as the Memorial Day weekend classic, but a lot more kind to the lactose intolerant, Mystery Car doesn’t require warm up laps, and the pole position is typically held by the perennially hopeful Muthalovin’s NSX guess. Some traditions are earned over time, and some simply spring forth without warning. We do have rules however, just like the IRL. You need to provide the make, model, year range, and likely engine powering your guess. That’s all. Okay then, if you’re ready, Gentlemen (and ladies) start your engines!
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Kamil Kaluski
What was last weeks car?
Someone has to answer it -eventually – , sometimes it has taken a few weeks. How obsessive/compulsive are you feeling?
Awesome! Thanks for the call-out Graverobbert!
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Though, I will settle for runner up, just behing Saugatuck (did i spell that right?) by 9 minutes. Oh well.
No, it is spelled b-e-h-i-n-d.
I don't know what it is but I think Guy likes it.
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My guess is a pace car of the Corvette, Fiero, or Camero concept variety — which means the real answer is probably some obscure vehicle from Luxembourg.
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1952 Jaguar C-Type 6 Cylinder
Looks to me like the bottom of a windshield on an old pickup with wrap around glass. But I can't get any closer than that.
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Caparo T1 high performance two-seater sports car
According to Wikipedia:
The T1 has a dry weight of 470 kilograms (1,000 lb), an overall length of 4,066 millimetres (160.1 in), an overall width of 1,990 millimetres (78 in), an overall height of 1,076 millimetres (42.4 in), and a wheelbase of 2,900 millimetres (110 in). It has a fuel tank capacity of 70 litres (18 U.S. gal).
The T1 sports a 116-kilogram (260 lb),[8] 32-valve, 3,496-cubic-centimetre (3.5 L), all-aluminium, naturally aspirated, Menard V8 engine with cylinder banks mounted at 90° and lubricated via a dry sump oil system. The engine has gone through several designs, previously including a smaller 2.4-litre supercharged unit. The production design generates a maximum power of 575 horsepower (429 kW; 583 PS) at 10,500 revolutions per minute and a maximum torque of 310 pound-feet (420 N·m) at 9,000 revolutions per minute,[6][9] giving the car a power-to-weight ratio of 1,223 horsepower per tonne (912.8 kW/t). In addition, the engine has been reported to successfully reach 700 horsepower (520 kW; 710 PS) on methanol fuel.[10] The engine is controlled via a fully tunable Pectel SQ6 engine control unit and the throttle is controlled via a throttle-by-wire system.[8]
The T1's gearbox is a 6-speed Hewland sequential made of a magnesium and carbon construction that has a variety of available gear ratios and utilizes a pneumatic actuator to shift, able to upshift in 60 milliseconds and downshift in 30 milliseconds.[11] Furthermore, the drivetrain incorporates a limited slip differential and equal length hollow tripod driveshafts.
Instead of random Related Posts, can the Related Posts be set to the prior
fourfive weeks' Mystery Cars?That would remove too much of the mystery.
Seconded!
Click on a "mystery car" tag above the main photo.
WOW, that's pretty cool!
OR the Mystery Car link in the right sidebar will give you the same view. It won't, unfortunately, answer the last few unsolved mysteries.
Maybe, but probably not. It's an automated function with a couple of options, but I'm not sure it can do that.
Manic_King's comment is the easiest way. Basically you pull up all the MC posts by category: http://hooniverse.info/category/hoondeavours/myste…
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2006 Saab Aero X powered by a 6.8 L twin-turbocharged V12 running on pure ethanol that produces 600 kW (800 hp). 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) is predicted to be 3.9 s[1] and top speed is 420 km/h (261 mph). It has a 7-speed manual transmission controlled by paddles on the steering wheel.
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1959 Cadillac Cyclone XP74 power is provided by the standard 325 HP V8 engine fitted wîth a low-profile carburetor, a cross-flow aluminum radiator and two fans.
The rear window viewed from the back.
Close, but no cigar, Saugatuck.
Jaguar C-X75 concept car from 2010. Powered by a hybrid powertrain of four 194hp electric motors, and two micro gas turbines.
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…and I mention Saugatuck because it was the Cyclone that provided the mental kickstart to leap to the turbines in the back of the Jaaaaaag. Thx dude.
And we have a winnah!
Woohoo, good work Kyle!
Way to go Kyle_a_m. Well played.
How many unsolved Mystery Cars,other than last week, are there?
…and now you've got me wanting to make a spreadsheet for tracking purposes.
There've been a couple of late. The crossed flags from a number of weeks ago was never confirmed, leading me to believe it's still unsolved, and it's still haunting me.
I thought that the crossed flags had been answered,something Standard Triumph. But, OK, if it's not too much trouble a masterlist /spreadsheet would be much appreciated. : )
It was never confirmed by Rob, and so I wouldn't consider it completely solved.
Well, it wasn't much trouble…but it was kind of tedious. Behold: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlD-…
Wow. Nice work!
I'm not sure I want to know what you think would qualify as unambiguously tedious.
Thanks!
Also posted about it in the forums, here: http://forum.hooniverse.info/viewtopic.php?f=6&…
Let me know if anything seems out of whack. I did it over a number of days, so it may not be entirely consistent.