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Old 17 March 2013, 01:47 PM   #31
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There is a long history in England of custom 'shooting brakes' or 'Estates' based on sports cars - with more hits than misses, I'd suggest.
I don't mind the XJS version, and really enjoyed the E Type version provided by Kingair (never seen that one before)
The Callaway Corvette looks good also.
The 'shooting brake' concept has never had much pretension about being practical - always just been a bit of styling fun and 'something different'.
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Old 17 March 2013, 05:15 PM   #32
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Screams Ferrari FF to me.

Nice, but, another example of what I don't like about the new Corvette. It looks like a collection of other cars instead of a Corvette.






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Old 17 March 2013, 08:42 PM   #33
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None match the best of the lot, John Dodds so called Rolls Royce, with a Merlin plane motor
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=jo...l%3B1200%3B900

or the custom 456 shooting break for the Sultan of Brunei or the many custom shooting breaks from Aston Martin.
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Old 17 March 2013, 09:24 PM   #34
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Now I've seen it all.

A Corvette station wagon.

Pretty cool, I'm glad it's nowhere near the station wagons I remember seeing previously.
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Old 17 March 2013, 11:07 PM   #35
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None match the best of the lot, John Dodds so called Rolls Royce, with a Merlin plane motor
What a sound . . .

I have a friend that owns a Mustang P-51 . . . . same engine . . .

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Screams Ferrari FF to me.

Nice, but, another example of what I don't like about the new Corvette. It looks like a collection of other cars instead of a Corvette.






One of each please . . .

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Old 17 March 2013, 11:16 PM   #37
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Looks like the rear end of the Z BMW. It's nice.
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