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Re: whats this then ?
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2015, 12:20:30 AM »
Having once worked for the museum service in Hampshire, I know exactly what it is!
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Re: whats this then ?
« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2015, 08:05:44 AM »
Its a long time ago I remember not knowing what this is.
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Re: whats this then ?
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2015, 03:49:56 PM »
OK Malcolm Spill the beans!!!

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Re: whats this then ?
« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2015, 05:14:32 PM »
It's the one-off prototype Keeble K3. Built by in Titchfield in the 1990s by Jim Keeble formerly of Gordon-Keeble fame.
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Re: whats this then ?
« Reply #5 on: August 22, 2015, 07:09:20 PM »
Ooo, bit of a surprise after that rather swish car.

So is a Gorden Keeble really just the front of a K3 bolted to the rear of a Gordon with 8 Villiers lumps in a V formation? Needle nardle noo.
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