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"Jobjoris" (Jobjoris) 07/02/2015 at 03:48 • Filed to: Hour Rule, Gilbern Invader

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Cé hé sin > Jobjoris 07/02/2015 at 06:35

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A thing rarely seen nowadays!

Jobjoris > Cé hé sin 07/02/2015 at 06:39

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I can’t even remember having seen one for real! I do adore these though.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Jobjoris 07/02/2015 at 06:43

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Alfa?

kanadanmajava1 > Jobjoris 07/02/2015 at 06:50

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I think it’s a Gilbern Invader. Sadly it has a Ford V6.

Jobjoris > pip bip - choose Corrour 07/02/2015 at 07:02

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The side-rear sure looks that way, kinda Giulia GTV. But it isn’t. It’s not even Italian.

It’s a British, glass fibre Gilbern Invader.

Jobjoris > kanadanmajava1 07/02/2015 at 07:06

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How come ‘sadly’? It’s just an Essex V6. TVR used it as well. As many, many other manufacturers. What other English V6 would have been an improvement?

pip bip - choose Corrour > Jobjoris 07/02/2015 at 07:11

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whoops!

my bad!

looked italian , but the door handles weren’t right , but hey could’ve been a custom job?

but alas not.

kanadanmajava1 > Jobjoris 07/02/2015 at 07:25

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It being made by Ford wasn’t my problem but it being V6 was.

Jobjoris > kanadanmajava1 07/02/2015 at 11:55

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Because a V6 is... Inferior? Well-Balanced? What’s wrong with a V6? You prefer Inline-6’s? You need at least 8 cylinders? Or is it’s fuel-consumption bothering you and would you prefer a 3-cylinder? I don’t get it.

kanadanmajava1 > Jobjoris 07/02/2015 at 14:20

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Yes, inline-6 would be my choice to propel a Gilbern. I have to admit that it probably wouldn’t easily fit there. Some nice V8 would also be good. Gilbern is clearly a GT but a V6 isn’t enough for a GT car.

A V6 is my least favorite engine type but still a V6 can be cool too if you but enough effort to it. Alfa Romeo was able to do so.

Jonee > Jobjoris 07/02/2015 at 14:35

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That’s an obscure one. I had to go to the comments to know what it is. It’s funny that it was fiberglass. Such a basic shape to make out of GRP. But, I guess it was pretty light. And it’s a good profile.

Jobjoris > kanadanmajava1 07/03/2015 at 06:07

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The Alfa is a good call when it comes to epic V6’s. But not only Alfa created some epic V6’s. You clearly never heard a Dino V6 screaming at 8k rpm.

But I can really see nothing wrong with this V6 GT either:

Little biased of course...

Jobjoris > Jonee 07/03/2015 at 07:20

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It’s profile is awesome, bit Giulia GT Veloce-like. The front isn’t truly epic, that logo in the grille is a little too much. But I’ve always loved Gilberns. Another make we rarely see. About 600 were made of these, I think like 90% was RHD. Maybe even 100%.

Jonee > Jobjoris 07/04/2015 at 14:11

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From the front, it reminds me a lot of a TR6. There was an Estate one, too, apparently. Totally bizarre looking.

The earlier Gilbern GT was a pretty little thing. The pride of Wales. I guess not too many of them made it outside of the UK.

Jobjoris > Jonee 07/04/2015 at 14:27

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That dragon-logo should have taken it way over to China in a heartbeat. Too bad China was totally not buying cars back then.

Jonee > Jobjoris 07/05/2015 at 22:24

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I like that it’s even breathing fire. Great badge.

Maybe our Lorraine Cross should be on fire.

Jobjoris > Jonee 07/06/2015 at 02:41

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Hahaha, I think it does need to be on fire! Or adopt that dragon. And call our car the ‘St. George’!

Jonee > Jobjoris 07/07/2015 at 01:11

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That’s the Wales dragon. If our car is built in Norway the logo should be a troll, maybe? Or, a viking. Or, a troll eating a viking in a shout-out to Alfa.

Jobjoris > Jonee 07/07/2015 at 02:18

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I love the idea of a troll eating something but we should focus more on our biggest competitor. Which will be who? BMW? Then the troll needs to eat a propeller. Ferrari? A horse. Or maybe we should adjust the logo with the different types of Wanke r lMobils we’re going to create eventually?

Jonee > Jobjoris 07/07/2015 at 14:53

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A choice of what the Troll is eating is a good idea. It could be up to the customer depending on who they want to piss off. It could eat a bull for Lamborghini, a sheep for Dodge, etc. It would be a cooler version of this which has been popular here in the States for a depressingly long time.

Idiots stick a variation of this decal on their rear windows.

Jobjoris > Jonee 07/07/2015 at 17:56

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Haha, we’ve got those over here as well. Just different brands...

Mainly VW, Opel and BMW.

Jonee > Jobjoris 07/07/2015 at 23:24

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Seeing Calvin pissing on an Opel logo would crack me up. Over here it’s mostly Chevy, Dodge, or Ford. But, I bet there are plenty of BMW ones as well. You see them mostly on pickups. I have no idea how people find them funny at this point.

Jobjoris > Jonee 07/08/2015 at 02:02

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I agree. But it’s so awful right now that I’m starting to like it ;-)

I don’t do stickers on my cars anyway. I did order the small ‘Oppo’ decals but never actually put them on. And never think I will.

Jonee > Jobjoris 07/09/2015 at 01:55

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On my old cars, I sometimes like putting on a period correct sticker, like a political bumper sticker. It can complete the nostalgia effect. I had a Jimmy Carter for president sticker on one of my Pacers that always got a lot of comments. But, I also avoid those window stickers.

Jobjoris > Jonee 07/09/2015 at 02:32

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Edwin, the guy with the wall of engines and those 2002 Turbos, only hunts for one kind of sticker: dealer stickers from the past. That white Alpina of him (which was restored completely, body repainted) got the period-correct sticker of the dealer that actually made it’s first delivery. The guy is nuts: where on earth will you even find those???

Jonee > Jobjoris 07/09/2015 at 02:53

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Yeah, I don’t know where you’d find old dealer stickers. There’s a healthy market for old dealer license plate frames here. Those are more survivable than a sticker.

Jobjoris > Jonee 07/09/2015 at 03:23

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Well, you can easily recreate such a sticker but Edwin said it was the real deal. He’s a part-sourcerer I often don’t even dare asking where/how he got it. He was the one pointing me out where to take the Kugelfischer to some ex-Bosch employee (in his 70’s!) in some obscure small German town. That guy had never heard of Internet so it sure wasn’t an online hit for him.

Jonee > Jobjoris 07/09/2015 at 15:43

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Wow, I could use someone like that. I had an old friend when I lived in Boston who was a former helicopter mechanic and one of the first Subaru dealers in America. He would somehow come up with ways to find 360 parts for me back before the internet was a big deal. Did you actually drive to Germany with the Kugelfischer?

Jobjoris > Jonee 07/10/2015 at 05:19

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No, Edwin took it with him for me. He had two others (one for one of those Turbos he’s working on!) who needed overhauling as well so he was driving up there anyway.

Jonee > Jobjoris 07/10/2015 at 15:12

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I should send him the alternator for my Le Car which needs to be rebuilt for the second time. Maybe he knows some French hermit who does it in the basement of some chateau somewhere.

Jobjoris > Jonee 07/10/2015 at 16:29

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He hates French cars. He even hates Ferraris. There’s this lovely US import 308 GTB of a customer of his that’s in his shop at least 5 times a year. He even spits on it.

Jonee > Jobjoris 07/12/2015 at 00:35

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Haha. Some people just don’t get it.

Jobjoris > Jonee 07/12/2015 at 08:10

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I don’t get it either: 5 times a year in the shop is still a happy customer and you’re making money. What’s the problem ;-)

Jonee > Jobjoris 07/12/2015 at 21:02

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Yeah, as a professional mechanic, those should be his favorite cars. Actually, mom’s 308 was pretty reliable. I don’t remember anything ever going wrong even with the fuel injection.

Jobjoris > Jonee 07/13/2015 at 03:30

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It was actually reliable? The Robin 1 was in the shop all the time!

Jonee > Jobjoris 07/13/2015 at 17:15

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She didn’t drive it a whole bunch, but it never left us stranded anywhere and always started right up. She obviously treated it with much more respect than Thomas did Robin’s. Did Robin ever get to drive that thing even once, I wonder?

Jobjoris > Jonee 07/14/2015 at 02:04

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I even wondered if Higgins was actually Robin? We never saw the guy actually, right?

Jonee > Jobjoris 07/14/2015 at 02:30

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We never saw Robin. I feel like we saw a car that he was supposedly in, maybe. At one point Higgins did admit to being Robin, but then in the last episode he said that he wasn’t. It makes more sense that he wasn’t because why would he put up with Magnum for so long, but it’s funnier if he was, I guess.

Jobjoris > Jonee 07/14/2015 at 02:42

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Ah, that was it indeed about Higgins and Robin. I need a re-run. And a Magnum P.I. Movie. Did you contact Charlie already?

Jonee > Jobjoris 07/14/2015 at 02:51

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Not, yet. I’ll get a pitch ready for him. If anything, the filming will make for a nice Hawaiian vacation.

Jobjoris > Jonee 07/14/2015 at 03:09

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I’ll do the stunt-driving. I can use a Hawaiian vacation.