Argyll Turbo GT development story

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Argyll Turbo GT development story

Post by Dark » Sat Oct 20, 2018 7:50 pm

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Post by rossybee » 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
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Post by istoo » Sun Oct 21, 2018 10:08 pm

grampian transport museum have had one for quite a few years. different...


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Post by mik » Sun Oct 21, 2018 11:15 pm

rossybee wrote:
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Remember seeing this in the flesh at the Scottish Motor Show in Kelvin Hall November 1983. Fascinating story :thumbsup
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Post by Scotty C » Mon Oct 22, 2018 8:39 am

There was a feature about it on landward last week.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/article ... -highlands
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Post by renmure » Mon Oct 22, 2018 5:06 pm

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Re: Argyll Turbo GT development story

Post by greyrigg » Wed Oct 24, 2018 12:57 pm

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.

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Re: Argyll Turbo GT development story

Post by robin » Wed Oct 24, 2018 8:18 pm

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!
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