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bonkers mid engine fury. never seen this before
bi22le - 16/11/11 at 10:54 PM

Don't think this is a repost.

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3344455.htm

pinch of salt needed in places but is this for real?

T66 - 16/11/11 at 11:04 PM

I heard a tale of a rotrex busa radical doing 175mph , and the thing was still climbing.


The advert reads well, wouldn't fancy 212 in that mind.


Nice car.

skydivepaul - 16/11/11 at 11:08 PM

that turbo is pure EVIL

last time i saw a turbo that big was on a full race audi TT (spaceframe) with a mid engined V8

pekwah1 - 16/11/11 at 11:08 PM

it always annoys me when people say things like "capable of 500hp", so what is it right now!!! who cares what it's capable of, i think most people are more interested in what it does right now!

Simon - 16/11/11 at 11:12 PM

Can't see anything wrong with ad meself. Turboed Busa engines have been capable of 500bhp+ for years. 212 mph is theoritical as ad says. Gearing to 175 from 500bhp more than enough I'd have thought.

ATB

Simon

dhutch - 16/11/11 at 11:27 PM

That is fair mental...

iank - 16/11/11 at 11:31 PM

Given the spec you'd have to assume it has adjustable boost, in which case the knob might well go up to 500+ bhp while you'd only very very rarely turn the wick up that high.

I remember the Menace, unusual drive arrangement with the very very short prop shaft, but never seen one on the road.

jeffw - 17/11/11 at 08:16 AM

3 race cars and 3 road cars apparently. Rare beast that's for sure.

adithorp - 17/11/11 at 08:38 AM

Only ever seen one and that was an R1 engined race car at BGH a couple of years ago. It had full carbon fiber body work but was in for a rebuild after a crash.

The pistonheads one woud be mental. Proper widowmaker!

stevebubs - 17/11/11 at 08:49 AM

I've got photos of the prototype in build somewhere....

tomgregory2000 - 17/11/11 at 09:47 AM

so you try to sell a car for £17,500 and those are the photos you use!!!

Humbug - 17/11/11 at 10:07 AM

"the only road car version in the UK" ... except for this one that I saw at Fisher in 2004

andrew.carwithen - 17/11/11 at 10:19 AM

The seller is Mark Burley of MB Motorsports and he now also owns Quantum Sportscars (Extreme etc.)
I saw this car in the flesh at his old premises a year or two back and it is is mental.

derekandrewjones - 17/11/11 at 12:35 PM

We saw Stephen Dean run a Fury Menace at 3 RGB races in 2009.











stevebubs - 17/11/11 at 01:16 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Humbug
"the only road car version in the UK" ... except for this one that I saw at Fisher in 2004




I think Mark still has it...

[Edited on 17/11/11 by stevebubs]

Ninehigh - 17/11/11 at 08:39 PM

quote:
Originally posted by tomgregory2000
so you try to sell a car for £17,500 and those are the photos you use!!!




Well every little helps

Furyous - 19/11/11 at 11:27 AM

quote:
Originally posted by tomgregory2000
so you try to sell a car for £17,500 and those are the photos you use!!!


I once saw an ad on Pistonheads for a 206 GTI. Black car, photos taken in the middle of the night at a distance that they could only get 3/4 of the car in the frame. You could just about make out a reflection on the window to show that there was a car in the photo.




I saw the red Menace that Humbug posted in the Fisher workshop when Mark was developing it in 2004. It's the one that was shown in the magazines. I seem to remember the passenger seat was a bit further forward than the driver's. It's a bit hard to tell from that photo.