1981 Burlington Centurion
1981 Burlington Centurion in Total Recall, Movie, 1990
Class: Cars, Coupé — Model origin: 
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◊ 2009-09-06 02:22 |
Vehicle at the right looks familiar. Is that modified VAM Pacer? |
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◊ 2009-09-07 11:52 |
For which one is the page? It would be more interesting to list that one on the right rather than one more "made for movie"... |
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◊ 2009-11-13 20:33 |
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◊ 2010-06-14 17:37 |
I'm pretty sure the car on the right is an Urba Centurion, designed by Quincy Lynn Enterprises (later Robert Q Riley Enterprises) of Arizona, and marketed as a set of plans for home construction. Designed for economy rather than performance, it was based on a Triumph Spitfire chassis, but was intended to be fitted with a 17-bhp 3-cylinder Kubota diesel engine. More details from this web page, which comments ![[Image: cent3.1332.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is821/cent3.1332.jpg) ![[Image: cent2.7369.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is375/cent2.7369.jpg) ![[Image: wa7108.7829.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is683/wa7108.7829.jpg) -- Last edit: 2010-06-14 20:09:31 |
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◊ 2010-06-14 18:29 |
Seems to match indeed On Wikipedia it is referred as Burlington Centurion -- Last edit: 2010-06-14 18:31:05 |
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◊ 2010-06-14 20:23 |
Yes, I noticed that as well, but when you follow the referenced links on the page (here and here), there doesn't seem to be any mention of the Centurion, so I'm a bit doubtful about it. -- Last edit: 2010-06-14 20:24:18 |
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◊ 2010-06-14 22:44 |
Hello Tom .gif ":)") ![[Image: burlington.jpg]](http://img816.imageshack.us/i/burlington.jpg/ "http://img816.imageshack.us/img816/2545/burlington.jpg") -- Last edit: 2010-06-14 22:56:44 |
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◊ 2010-06-14 22:56 |
Hi Jason. Small world!  |
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◊ 2010-06-18 15:20 |
The would it be "Urba Centurion" as make? Or just "Urba" as make? |
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◊ 2012-06-06 19:35 |
Model Origin: United Kingdom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington_Cars -- Last edit: 2012-06-06 19:50:42 |
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◊ 2013-05-10 10:13 |
![[Image: snapshot20130510111007.2.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/13592/snapshot20130510111007.2.jpg) |
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◊ 2026-02-25 02:09 |
Hello. I'd like to clear up any confusion about the particular car shown. It is not a "Burlington Centurion". It is the original Urba Centurion that appeared to the cover of the February 1982 edition of Mechanix Illustrated (easy to Google). The car was designed by Robert Q. Riley and built by his company Quincy-Lynn (in Arizona) exclusively for the magazine. The car was sold when the company shut down and Mike Fennel (in California) bought many of the Quincy-Lynn cars. Mike Fennel rented the cars out to the movie set for the 1990 movie Total Recall with Arnold Schwarzenegger, which was filmed in Mexico. After the filming of the movie, the car returned to Mike Fennel in California and sat for many years out back of his huge classic car shop. I bought the magazine in 1982 and built my own Urba Centurion and went to on to best the original Centurion's 128MPG advertised figure with an astounding 250MPG at the annual 2014, 2015 and 2016 Toyota Green Grand Prix in Watkins Glen, NY. Currently, I own three Urba Centurions (The original Urba Centurion, the one I built that holds the 250MPG title, and a total electric Urba Centurion.) The Burlington Centurion is white in color, and currently (in 2026) resides at the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, Tennessee. The Burlington Centurion is weak and they state it does 40mpg and can go 55 mph. The original Centurion was reported to get 128mpg and go 65 mph. My build has documented 250.64 mpg and will self govern at 88mpg.![[Image: all_three_centurions.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/36512/26/all_three_centurions.jpg) ![[Image: dsc_0040.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/36512/26/dsc_0040.jpg) ![[Image: dsc_0086.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/36512/26/dsc_0086.jpg) -- Last edit: 2026-02-25 02:11:48 |
