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Supposedly it was one of the projects that were unlikely to go into production that they gave to Issigonis in his later years to keep him from harrassing the new designers while still having a nice job so he wouldn't go to the competitors .

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Mick wrote:
I saw an old coot on the Leyland Brothers once who did this to a XP falcon (I think). He used a flash boiler which raised steam by squirting water onto a red hot surface, hence very little time to raise steam.

You could start off in fourth it was so full of torque. It must have been snapped up by the oil cartels and put in storage with that engine that runs on water and the flux capacitor...
That would be Pritchard, he upgraded the Falcon to a LH Torana with some subtle changes... :shock:
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Location: Under the bonnet son!
Was he pretty well known at the time?

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Here is the full size car...
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He was fairly well known in the 60s and 70s. He got a bit of media attention and was featured in all the car mags for a while.
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Found him... http://www.pritchardpower.com/ :lol:
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Some photo's here of someones effort at building a replica of it , can't find anything else on it yet though ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8102163@N03

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When I saw the 1st pic I was thinking hydrogen power :)
How do you generate the heat for the steam unit, that would take a lot of energy :?

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