La monoplace à six roues de la Sonic Wolfrace . La Sonic était le cerveau du fabricant de jantes en alliage Wolfrace. Le patron de la société, Barry Tracey, souhaitait créer un prototype accrocheur pour présenter sa nouvelle gamme de jantes en alliage Sonic. Wolfrace s'est approché de Nick Butler Auto imagination pour venir avec la voiture. ¿ Butler était en ingénierie, après avoir suivi une formation à Hawker Siddeley à Dunsfold et Kingston. Il avait travaillé sur les avions Harrier Jump Jets et Hawk Airplanes, travaillant sur l'analyse des contraintes et les essais en vol. En 1976, il part pour suivre sa passion pour les voitures spéciales, établissant Auto Imagina

• Contributeur: Trinity Mirror / Mirrorpix / Alamy Banque D'Images
• ID de l’image: 2J0K318
• Taille du fichier: 52,9 MB (3,5 MB Téléchargement compressé)
• Autorisations: Modèle - non | Propriété - non
• Dimensions: 4884 x 3785 px | 41,4 x 32 cm | 16,3 x 12,6 inches | 300dpi
• Date de la prise de vue: 23 juillet 1981
• Photographe: Mirrorpix

Informations supplémentaires

Cette image peut avoir des imperfections car il s’agit d’une image historique ou de reportage.

The Wolfrace Sonic Six wheeled supercar . The Sonic was the brainchild of the alloy wheel manufacturer, Wolfrace. The company boss, Barry Tracey, wanted to create an eye-catching concept car to showcase its new range of Sonic alloy wheels. Wolfrace approached Nick Butler Auto Imagination to come up with the car. Butler¿ background was in engineering, having trained at Hawker Siddeley at Dunsfold and Kingston. He'd worked on The Harrier Jump Jets and Hawk aeroplanes, working on stress analysis and flight testing. In 1976, he left to follow his passion for special cars, setting up Auto Imagination. The Wolfrace Sonic was an amazing car. Powered by a pair of Rover V8s, controlled by a clever drive-by-wire system, the two seater was certainly blessed with plenty of potential performance. Underneath the Batmobile-style looks, there was a spaceframe chassis, with rear-wheel drive through a Jaguar rear axle and differential. But for most people, the main talking point was the six-wheel configuration similar to the 1977 Panther 6. Autocar magazine featured the car in 1981, and it made regular appearances on the motor show circuit for a couple of years before disappearing out of view. It was seen again in 2010, when the original car (two were eventually built) went up for sale for a 1 million pound . In March 2015, Sonic was sold on eBay for a rather less astonishing 18, 100 pound. According to Wolfrace, the car was a no-holds-barred big budget project made for around ¿100, 000. It was sold to a private collector by Wolfrace in the 1990s and went on to feature in the opening of the British Grand Prix. It was even sprayed red for a feature in Playboy magazine. When it was sold in 2015, it was because the then-owner could not keep up with the inevitable maintenance of such a complex vehicle. Sadly, the car had been in storage since around 2005, and had declined into a state of disrepair, needing a full restoration to get it back to its former glory. It is not clear wher

Recherche dans la banque de photos par tags

• 20ième siècle
• alloy wheels
• années 1980
• auto
• automobile
• barry tracey
• childbirth 1981
• disign
• invention
• motor