Car names from aeroplanes

[dogsridewith]

Plymouth Duster- Crop Duster
(seriously....seems some XYZ Corporation might have made a TurboDuster or something.)

I think there was also Plymouth Scamp.

[gileraguy]

Originally Posted by longer ron

Reliant Scimitar

Reliant Scimitar SE5A

Names from the Jet age and the First World War combined...

[RLinSW4]

Originally Posted by gileraguy

Reliant Scimitar SE5A

Names from the Jet age and the First World War combined...

Indeed - that was what I drove - but I never made that connection!

[India Four Two]

Lots of the examples above are cases where the car came first, so was not named after the aeroplane! e.g. Standard had a Vanguard in production in 1948, 11 years before Vickers flew their Vanguard

.... but Vultee produced the little known P.48 Vanguard.

I was reminded of this while looking through my wartime copy of "Aircraft and the Air" by Eric Sargent, which I have just retrieved from storage.

I also found the Rearwin Speedster which predates the Porsche 365 Speedster.

I knew about the BSA Thunderbolt, but I thought surely someone had used the name for a car.

Sure enough, the 1964 Ford Thunderbolt, a 500 BHP drag racer.

Though technically legal for street use, the Thunderbolt was too raucous for the public roads. Just over 100 were built, and every one spent nearly every minute at the drag strip.

As Hot Rod warned, the T-bolt was "not suitable for driving to and from the strip, let alone on the street in everyday use."

https://musclecars.howstuffworks.com...hunderbolt.htm

[evansb]

Yes, treadigraph already mentioned the Vultee Vanguard on April 18th, post #38 of this thread.

dogsridewith referenced the Plymouth Scamp, but didn't correlate an aircraft named "Scamp" Well, here it is, the Aerosport Scamp:

(22 are believed to be airworthy)


Here is the Scottish Aviation Scamp electric car, built and designed in Prestwick, circa 1966:

[El Bunto]

Originally Posted by evansb

Here is the Scottish Aviation Scamp electric car, built and designed in Prestwick, circa 1966:

With suspension and various bits of the Hillman Imp, made up the road in Linwood.

Shorts also had a go at a small car but sadly didn't give it an aeronautical name. It was called the Nobel 200 and based on a Fuldamobil design but with changes to actually allow it to drive properly on a road. The Germans aren't always expert engineers!

[DHfan]

There was/is also a Scamp kit car.
Originally Mini-based and supposed to resemble the Mini-Moke it actually looked more like a garden shed.
A version is still made now, based on a choice of small 4x4s.

[diesel addict]

Armstrong-Whitworth Ensign unto Standard Ensign (smaller engine version of the Vanguard II )

[Mechta]

VW Scirocco / Jurca Scirocco
Pontiac Tempest / Tempest Kit car / Hawker Tempest / Jurca Tempete
Reliant Robin / Curtiss Robin / ABC Robin
Plymouth Fury / Hawker Fury / North American Fury
Studebaker Avanti / Piaggio Avanti
Plymouth Barracuda / Fairey Barracuda
Plymouth Satellite / Short Satellite
Aston Martin Bulldog /Scottish Aviation Bulldog
Pontiac Catalina / Consolidated Catalina
Mercury Comet / DH Comet
Dodge/De Soto Coronado / Consolidated Coronado
Dodge Dakota / Douglas Dakota / Piper Dakota
Dodge Dart / Daimler Dart / Blackburn Dart
Austin A40 Devon / DH Devon
Sipani Dolphin / Sopwith Dolphin
Jowett Javelin / AMC Javelin / Gloster Javelin
Jowett Jupiter / Brstol Jupiter (1924 Fighter)
Austin A70 Hereford / Handley Page Hereford
AMC Hornet / DH Hornet
Hillman Husky /Beagle Husky
SS100 Jaguar / Sepecat Jaguar
Riley Kestrel / HS Kestrel / Slingsby Kestrel
Mercury Marauder / Martin Marauder
Mercury Meteor / Gloster Meteor
Chevrolet Nomad /GAF Nomad / Northrop Nomad
and there's more to come...

[treadigraph]

Hillman Husky /Beagle Husky

Aviat Husky and Kaman Husky... ok, Huskie...

AMC Hornet / DH Hornet

Hiller Hornet

Dodge/De Soto Coronado / Consolidated Coronado

Convair 990 Coronado

[YVRLTN]

Pontiac / Piper Chieftain
Austin / Fairchild Metro
Land Rover / BN Defender
Studebaker / Rockwell Lark
Daimler / Cessna Citation Sovereign
Hyundai / Cessna Citation Excel
GMC / Robinson Astro
Vauxhall / IAI Astra
Subaru / Embraer Legacy

[treadigraph]

Ford Sierra / Beech Sierra, Tecnam Sierra

[DHfan]

Not really fair, but until it reached production the Morris Minor was known at the factory as the Morris Mosquito.

[evansb]

Lots of repeats on this thread. For example, "Sirocco" was referenced on April 21st, and on May 2nd. The "Hornet" again on April 29th and May 2nd. And the "Alpha"....

Perhaps the new page format reduces the likelihood of readers looking at older pages. Just a thought. It was a fun thread though..quite informative.

The Sipani Dolphin? Who knew?! Thanks Mechta!

[dook]

OK, a glider not an aeroplane.

Buick Skylark (Slingsby)