New Racing A Scimitar Amongst A Fiberglass Body
Drag racing inwards the Britain dorsum inwards the 60's produced some interesting mechanism as well as the machine below was based on a Reliant Scimitar GTE alongside an unblown 427 powerplant - it was called Whistler. The Reliant Scimitar was manufactured yesteryear a companionship ameliorate known for a attain of ghastly underpowered 3-wheelers as well as it was a existent surprise when the Scimitar was released. Glass fibre torso powered yesteryear a lead half dozen Ford engine - looked cracking as well as performed good too. There's nonetheless a cult next inwards NZ alongside a Scimitar owner's gild of to a greater extent than or less 150 cars. Amazing for a terra firma alongside alone 4M population.
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Mark Stratton was friendly alongside i of the marketing people at the Reliant Motor Company as well as managed to persuade him to donate a fibreglass torso from the novel version of the Reliant Scimitar known equally the GTE (the 'E' stood for estate). Dennis Priddle is driving the machine hither which has been fitted alongside a deflector to trim down the amount of air entering the carbs
Nothing similar this had been built earlier as well as alongside John's assistance as well as encouragement the machine became the province of the fine art inwards the sport. With cracking celebration the squad named it 'Whistler' as well as the Reliant GTE made its get-go runs at Santa Pod inwards the confine of 1969.
Dennis Priddle was recruited to motility the machine as well as inwards his hands it was unbeatable when running 10.4 minute runs at 140mph. Consequently the Stratton stable won the Super Eliminator Trophy at Santa Pod for the 3rd yr inwards a row.
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