1959 BocarSomebody needs to do a kit car of this thing!
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Sept. 16, 2011 8:38 a.m. bravenrace SuperDork
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Sept. 16, 2011 8:42 a.m. 4cylndrfury SuperDork
I saw a mini-umentary on Bocar - what possibilities that little car had. I love that shape, and thought a similar style would be great in the FF roadster contest, I tried to capture a little of that style in my entry (namely the rear fender arches being taller than the front, and the round nose)...too bad Im no good with 3d modeling.
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Sept. 16, 2011 8:42 a.m. ransom HalfDork
In reply to bravenrace:
WAAAAAAAAAANT!
Wantwantwantwantwant.
You're right; that is a damn fine looking automobile.
I think it would look really good stuffed full of tire on these wheels:
I wonder whether they can be had without the polished lip. I suppose the lip could be un-polished pretty easily...
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Sept. 16, 2011 8:43 a.m. 93EXCivic SuperDork
SO MUCH WANT!!!!!
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Sept. 16, 2011 8:45 a.m. 4cylndrfury SuperDork
one of my favorite pics -this is the XP4:
XP5 was a good looker too (the model on ebay)
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Sept. 16, 2011 8:53 a.m. 4cylndrfury SuperDork
and I love this:
The Bocar XP-5 was a race car built for the street, which featured a tube chassis and a Corvette 283 engine. Len Griffing drove the Bob Carnes' designed and built Bocar on Riverside Raceway. In his June '59 report, Griffing said, "The initial laps were in the 100-mph range. Once in the turns, the throttle does the steering. On the long straight, it tracks like an arrow and the engine seems to rev without limit. 150 mph came up right now.
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Sept. 16, 2011 9:46 a.m. jstein77 Dork
Wow! Looks sort of like a stretched Cobra. Easily the prettiest car from the 50's I've ever seen.
+1 on the kit car idea.
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Sept. 16, 2011 10:07 a.m. Snowdoggie Dork
There were several of them running with Rocky Mountain Vintage Racing back in the 80s and 90s when I worked as a corner worker for that group.
They were actually made in Lakewood, Colorado, a suburb of Denver.
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Sept. 16, 2011 10:49 a.m. VonSmallhausen New Reader
How hard would it be to just rebody the factory five corba? I mean there are tons of cool old kit cars from the 60s and 70s that are basically the same cobra style setup ( front mounted 'Merican V8, with rear wheel drive) that look diffrent and are more unique than seeing the same cobra body over and over.
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Sept. 16, 2011 10:53 a.m. nderwater Dork
jstein77 wrote:
Wow! Looks sort of like a stretched Cobra. Easily the prettiest car from the 50's I've ever seen.
lolwat?
...and that's just for starters!
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Sept. 16, 2011 11:13 a.m. mad_machine SuperDork
I agree.. the 50s were a real golden age for design
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Sept. 16, 2011 12:22 p.m. dculberson HalfDork
Funny, I love all of those cars, but they look about 85-90% the same. Only the Corvette really looks different because of the quad headlamps and mass of chrome. Put those all together and it would be just as "vanilla" as a street full of 2000s vintage high end cars. Seriously, they're all speaking the same design language with slightly different accents.
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Sept. 16, 2011 12:24 p.m. imirk Reader
the Alfa is bestest, it has a stossel stache
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Sept. 16, 2011 12:34 p.m. 93EXCivic SuperDork
dculberson wrote:
Funny, I love all of those cars, but they look about 85-90% the same. Only the Corvette really looks different because of the quad headlamps and mass of chrome. Put those all together and it would be just as "vanilla" as a street full of 2000s vintage high end cars. Seriously, they're all speaking the same design language with slightly different accents.
But when they look that good who cares if they look a little alike.
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Sept. 16, 2011 4:42 p.m. Raze Dork
You want a recreation? http://www.sammio-spyder.com/ is pretty close, since it's built on a Triumph Herald (someone's doing a Miata btw) and once they iron it all you you're still looking at a car that costs between $5-10k total to build...
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Sept. 16, 2011 5:04 p.m. kreb Dork
dculberson wrote: Funny, I love all of those cars, but they look about 85-90% the same. Only the Corvette really looks different because of the quad headlamps and mass of chrome. Put those all together and it would be just as "vanilla" as a street full of 2000s vintage high end cars. Seriously, they're all speaking the same design language with slightly different accents.
Cars from ANY era look mainly the same. Good 50s sports cars look like hard-bodied starlets in slinky evening gowns. Sports cars from most other eras look like look like said starlet's chubby mom. I know which "language" I'd rather listen to.
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Sept. 16, 2011 5:24 p.m. 93EXCivic SuperDork
In reply to kreb:
I think the sixties looked pretty damn good for sports cars.
Although I think the most beautiful cars ever built were in the late '20s early '30s.
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Sept. 16, 2011 5:46 p.m. peter Reader
4cylndrfury wrote:
I love that shape, and thought a similar style would be great in the FF roadster contest...
I thought the same thing when I saw the pictures yesterday - that nose is a great mix of aggressive and beautiful. It has flair (and flare). Unfortunately, I think with the full-size windshield the FFR will have, it would look ungainly. Too bad.
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Sept. 16, 2011 7:00 p.m. 93EXCivic SuperDork
lizard wrote:
Um...not sure I can reconcile his asking price and this statement quoted from his description. Reserve not met at $225,000..."and is not a lot of money"????
Huh???
Compared to a Cobra it is cheap.
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Sept. 16, 2011 9:55 p.m. nderwater Dork
dculberson wrote:
Funny, I love all of those cars, but they look about 85-90% the same... Seriously, they're all speaking the same design language with slightly different accents.
I believe that language is called "awesome"
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Sept. 16, 2011 11:05 p.m. alex SuperDork
What I would give for a sea of that same design language prowling the streets these days.
I've only been 30 for 3.5 months now, and I already feel like an old fart, driving around in my 22 year-old pickup thinking, "I can't tell one of these bubbles from the next anymore."
I've come to accept ugly design (Hyundai and Nissan, I'm looking at you) just for the sake of bucking some trends and being different.
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Sept. 17, 2011 9:04 a.m. Raze Dork
alex wrote: I've only been 30 for 3.5 months now, and I already feel like an old fart, driving around in my 22 year-old pickup thinking, "I can't tell one of these bubbles from the next anymore."
Preach it!
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Sept. 17, 2011 6:17 p.m. 4eyes HalfDork
93EXCivic wrote:
dculberson wrote:
Funny, I love all of those cars, but they look about 85-90% the same. Only the Corvette really looks different because of the quad headlamps and mass of chrome. Put those all together and it would be just as "vanilla" as a street full of 2000s vintage high end cars. Seriously, they're all speaking the same design language with slightly different accents.
But when they look that good who cares if they look a little alike.
Yes, make mine a BRG D-Type Jag please.
