1964 Scania SC3 V8???
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I was trundling down the A303 this morning and saw an absolutely lovely old beast, but had no idea what it was! Similar-ish in appearance to an Aston Martin DB5 to give you an idea.
Having checked its Reg on the RAC website, it's showing up as a Scania SC3, but when I try to find out more about it, I'm just getting overwhelmed with truck results!
I know Scania used to make cars, but I just can't find this one anywhere! Can anyone help?
The chances of me getting a digit wrong on a 1964 number plate and still getting a hit seems pretty remote!
Having checked its Reg on the RAC website, it's showing up as a Scania SC3, but when I try to find out more about it, I'm just getting overwhelmed with truck results!
I know Scania used to make cars, but I just can't find this one anywhere! Can anyone help?
The chances of me getting a digit wrong on a 1964 number plate and still getting a hit seems pretty remote!
I think you've probably just got the wrong car number, sorry! Scania haven't made cars in their own right for donkey's years, possibly pre 1914-18 war. The twentieth century stuff, certainly sixties era, was produced under the SAAB-Scania name and the only thing in the range which remotely fits the description is the SAAB Sonnett:
What you've described could have been all sorts of things, sadly!
What you've described could have been all sorts of things, sadly!
Is it a 'B' suffix plate from 1964? I ask because the Scania SC3 model comes from a much later period (1987-1999). It's more than possible that the plate has been put on a truck as a personalized item, however. Is the car checker thing saying the lorry is from 1964? A Scania SC3 definitely is a commercial vehicle, by the way!
It gets stranger. I started out using the RAC car checker, which shows EGF188B to be a Scania SC3, which turns out to be wrong!
Looking on the DVLA website, they identify it as "A silver Jensen", and digging a bit further, it turns out to be a 1964 Jensen C-V8 Mk2.
It was absolutely gorgeous, and also one of the fastest 4 seaters in the world at the time, with a top speed of 136mph and 0-60 time of 6.7 seconds which isn't exactly slow now!
Looking on the DVLA website, they identify it as "A silver Jensen", and digging a bit further, it turns out to be a 1964 Jensen C-V8 Mk2.
It was absolutely gorgeous, and also one of the fastest 4 seaters in the world at the time, with a top speed of 136mph and 0-60 time of 6.7 seconds which isn't exactly slow now!
rix said:
The power of Google! If you get a reg of something unusual, the chances are someone will have snapped it and uploaded it to the web - Google does a good impression of ANPR usually!
I googled it, but the only response I got was an RAC (the club not the breakdown) document that wouldn't open! Gassing Station | Classic Cars and Yesterday's Heroes | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff