Mystery challenge, revised style

PaulK_CCI · 17-02-2005 5:47pm #1

since you all seem to know most of the cars out here, and I could fill thread after thread with the most obscure one-offs and low production specials, but this could become a bit tedious for some of us.

So I thought I'd do it slightly different this time around by showing you a small section of a classic car... See if you all know what it's from.

Let's start with an easy-peasy one

MercMad · 17-02-2005 6:04pm

300SL Gullwing !

Or then again it could be a 190SL.......I'll go with the former !

Noits a 190Sl ......just noticed the chrome trim above the "eyebrows".

Merrion · 17-02-2005 6:30pm

Nissan Figaro

Dades · 17-02-2005 6:45pm

Hmmm.

I first thought an old Jag - but no...

Is it an Austin Healy?? Pleeeease say it is so...

PaulK_CCI · 17-02-2005 6:53pm

MercMad wrote:

300SL Gullwing !

Or then again it could be a 190SL.......I'll go with the former !

Noits a 190Sl ......just noticed the chrome trim above the "eyebrows".

I would have been pretty baffled if you didn't get this mercmad !!! Well done. It's indeed the slightly sluggish "older brother" of your 230SL, the 190SL. But at least I got you doubting with the 300SL.

So let's move on to a perhaps slightly more unusual one:

alastair · 17-02-2005 7:25pm

Opel Rekord C

You can't disguise those wannabe american lines.
If the Capri was a Euro Mustang, this must have been the Euro Charger.

BrianD3 · 17-02-2005 8:38pm

Who knows what this is?

BrianD3

alastair · 17-02-2005 8:46pm

Renault 17

alastair · 17-02-2005 9:01pm

How about this one then?

Silvera · 17-02-2005 9:06pm

TATA .........Russian-built car. Not sure of exact model number/name.

alastair · 17-02-2005 9:28pm

Near enough. It's a Tatra T603. Czech manufacturer.

Squirrel · 17-02-2005 10:00pm

That Tatra killed more German Officers than the Czech army did, with its rear engine it caught many a driver off guard, especially in the winter and most of them ended up in fields. Just a bit of useless info. for you.

alastair · 17-02-2005 10:30pm

Here's another one.

BrianD3 · 17-02-2005 10:42pm

Austin Atlantic.

BrianD3

alastair · 17-02-2005 10:56pm

something a bit newer:

BrianD3 · 17-02-2005 11:00pm

Aha that's one of my favourite cars - a Renault Alpine GTA

BrianD3

PaulK_CCI · 17-02-2005 11:02pm

Right you guys, you lot are too good! Let's make the challenge a bit more daunting:

Feast your eyes on this and give me some clues...

alastair · 17-02-2005 11:07pm

Is that actually RHD, or is it flipped?

PaulK_CCI · 17-02-2005 11:12pm

it's a RHD, correct (very rare though).

Owner wants 55,000 euro's for it

but don't worry you won't find any adds for it on the internet, because it's through my source in .... oops ... abroad.

Let's first hear a few more guesses before I start giving away more clues

alastair · 18-02-2005 12:12am

Has me stumped I'm afraid.
It looks Italian though, or possibly French.

Silvera · 18-02-2005 12:29am

Alfa Romeo perhaps ?

unkel · 18-02-2005 12:43am

Yeah was thinking Alfa or Fiat

Hintyhint please, I'm not going to do a Denzel search ever again

PaulK_CCI · 18-02-2005 12:54am

well ok, it's French actually...

there...

making it real easy now, because that narrows it down quite a bit

Alfasudcrazy · 18-02-2005 12:58am

Its a Jensen of some sort?

PaulK_CCI · 18-02-2005 12:59am

Alfasudcrazy wrote:

Its a Jensen of some sort?

Did someone hear me say "french"?

Silvera · 18-02-2005 1:36am

Citroen, Renault, Peugeot

PaulK_CCI · 18-02-2005 1:38am

Silvera wrote:

Citroen, Renault, Peugeot

no, no, no....

you're going to have to move a bit more upmarket than that

Silvera · 18-02-2005 1:43am

'French'......'upmarket'

alastair · 18-02-2005 2:03am

I'd considered a Facel-Vega, but I don't recall a model with that forward facing c-pillar and fins.

PaulK_CCI · 18-02-2005 9:49am

good guess, but it's not a facel-vega Alastair.

To help you along a bit, have a look at the complete car:

The car is from 1957, and a very interesting hint is its engine: it's a tuned version of the 2,5 litre 4 cylinder from a well-know German manufacturer

alastair · 18-02-2005 11:02am

Ah. Here's one; a Talbot-Lago. New to me I'm afraid. Looks kinda like an overgrown MGA.

unkel · 18-02-2005 11:08am

PaulK_CCI wrote:

it's a tuned version of the 2,5 litre 4 cylinder from a well-know German manufacturer

Does it not have the 2.5 liter BMW V8?

alastair · 18-02-2005 11:28am

Right. Here's another. It's not a flipped pic, it's post-war, and the rear window opens on this mystery contestant. There's a BMW connection here too.

PaulK_CCI · 18-02-2005 12:16pm

well done alastair ! Another cigar for you. It's a Talbot-Lago LS 14 (America).

Hard to imagine that this great marque of exclusive quality vehicles amalgamated in the Simca/Talbot/Chrysler soup of horrid saloons and compact cars of the seventies, and worse still, the eighties

. So it's not only the Brits who made a b***s of their heritage in the seventies and eighties. At least the British makes have undergone some sort of resurrection...

Unkel: the engine is a 4 cylinder 2,5 litre 120bhp. Talbo-Lago's were indeed fitted with the Famous v8 from the BMW 507, but this engine has a displacement of 3,1 litre!

Alastair, I know exactly what car it is, but I will keep the other guessing for a while (you shouldnt have mentioned the BMW heritage

)

unkel · 18-02-2005 1:24pm

PaulK_CCI wrote:

Unkel: the engine is a 4 cylinder 2,5 litre 120bhp. Talbo-Lago's were indeed fitted with the Famous v8 from the BMW 507, but this engine has a displacement of 3,1 litre!

En 1957, la firme connaissant de plus en plus de difficultés, arr^éta la production des moteur et An,thony Lago remplaça le 4 cylindres de la T14 LS par un 8 cylindres en V de 2476 cm3 en provenance de chez BMW avec 138ch à 6000tr/mn, le coupé fut rebatisé Lago América

The 1956 2.5l T14 LS is a 4 pot, the 1957 2.5l America has a BMW V8

unkel · 18-02-2005 1:48pm

Bristol 400

unkel · 18-02-2005 2:00pm

Here's another. Produced by a top 10 European manufacturer. Hint is license

Paul is too good. He is not allowed to guess this or even comment

Silvera · 18-02-2005 8:06pm

well, I reckon the licence number is Dutch.

........as for the make of car

unkel · 18-02-2005 8:25pm

Your warm, Silvera

Silvera · 18-02-2005 8:36pm

DAF ?

.......... I'm not familiar with many Dutch cars.

unkel · 18-02-2005 10:34pm

It's not a Dutch car. Mainstream European manufacturer as said before

Hint: what Dutch licenses start with AA?

Silvera · 18-02-2005 11:52pm

'Royal' Dutch licence plates start with AA.

still doesn't help me

mike65 · 19-02-2005 12:07am

I really hate it when I recognise a rear end but can't put a name to her - it!

Its a 60s Fiat is'nt it?

Mike.

Silvera · 19-02-2005 12:10am

Yeah, I was thinking Fiat 124 ............... but the lights look different than any 124 I have seen........... unless it's a 124 Coupe ?

unkel · 19-02-2005 12:18am

mike65 wrote:

Its a 60s Fiat is'nt it?

Yes it is

Silvera wrote:

it's a 124 Coupe ?

No but it is a coupe. Royal plates is right

Final hint: it was a gift

Silvera · 19-02-2005 1:15am

Hmmm...........Fiat ?

(P.S. - The 'Royal' plates wasn't much help to most - I just happened to have a book which lists Dutch plates).

unkel · 19-02-2005 1:48am

Ah now feed your friend on the interweb with the words "fiat" and "coupe" and one other word. Your friends' first answer is the mystery car

It is not so hard to find the third word now given all the hints and especially the connections prompted by Silvera

mike65 · 19-02-2005 12:25pm

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

2300 S Coupe.

Mike.

unkel · 19-02-2005 2:58pm

mike65 wrote:

2300 S Coupe

Well done Mike

Let me see, I've two cigars left. Shall we say one for Mike and the other one for Silvera?

Mystery challenge, revised style

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