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Argyll Turbo GT development story

Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2018 7:50 pm
by Dark

Re: Argyll Turbo GT development story

Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2018 8:57 pm
by rossybee
Remember seeing this in the flesh at the Scottish Motor Show in Kelvin Hall November 1983. Fascinating story :thumbsup

Re: Argyll Turbo GT development story

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2018 10:08 pm
by istoo
grampian transport museum have had one for quite a few years. different...


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Re: Argyll Turbo GT development story

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2018 11:15 pm
by mik
rossybee wrote:
Sat Oct 20, 2018 8:57 pm
Remember seeing this in the flesh at the Scottish Motor Show in Kelvin Hall November 1983. Fascinating story :thumbsup
Snap. 8)

Re: Argyll Turbo GT development story

Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 8:39 am
by Scotty C
There was a feature about it on landward last week.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/article ... -highlands

Re: Argyll Turbo GT development story

Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 5:06 pm
by renmure
It's no looker.

Re: Argyll Turbo GT development story

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 12:57 pm
by greyrigg
A boat builder along the road from us did a lot of the mouldings for the body work in the mid to late 70’s. He was always impressed with the turbo work on the various cars the designer rocked up in.

I think they completed enough for around 6 cars. It was never a great looking thing but in the context of some designs at the time it wasn’t a disaster.

That PRV v6 engine was always crap though, my Dad had lots of Volvos with that engine and it was a heavy, gutless, unreliable pile of dog mess.

Malcolm

Re: Argyll Turbo GT development story

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 8:18 pm
by robin
Looks like the love child of a Panamera and a Delorean :-)

It looks long to go round corners ... but V8 250BHP must have been interesting!