Haven't a picture (but will try Google Street view if I can remember the address) but a quick story: a work colleague I used to give a lift to site had a Scimitar, he hadn't had it long when it had a fairly catastrophic engine failure - throttle jammed wide open revved itself to bits I think he said (presume clutch wasn't up to stalling it and couldn't get at carb to try and smother it/free the linkage). Not sure I would think of anything else sensible to try if caught by surprise in same situation - guess yanking a low tension lead off the coil probably best option, or the king lead coil or distributor but at risk of getting a jolt trying that)
Anyway I used enjoy the once a week "ogle" it whilst he smoked a roll up before we headed on the long trip.
He reckoned it could have made do with a two speed transmission as could touch 70mph in second gear!
They used to be so cheap, I often wondered if one + a swap to a nice turbo diesel would make an interesting commute to work device. Didn't really like the thought of the Ford 1.8 TD (from Sierra) in place of the creamy V6. Got a bit older, more collectable and unlikely to find one for peanuts nowadays!
Oh, forgot the key detail, it had sat on his drive in its post self-destructed state for 9 years at that point! Paint/gellcoat? very unpresentable, but to its credit not a patch of rust on the body!
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