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Guess what this is III

  • 11-02-2005 11:00pm
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 64,548 ✭✭✭✭


    I remember them

    car.jpg


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Not a clue, I'm going to need a hint (or three).

    Mike.


  • Registered Users Posts: 64,548 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    mike65 wrote:
    Not a clue, I'm going to need a hint (or three)

    <sherlock h.> British reg, RHD, so most likely either Japanese or European. It doesn't look Japanese, so it must be European </sherlock h.>

    And it's not British

    <sherlock h.> So it is European, not British, so it's normally LHD. This one is RHD so it must be a fairly common car that they bothered to produce it with RHD as well. Probably one of the top 10 (or so) continental European car manufacturers of the time so </sherlock h.>


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,235 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    It looks very FIAT. Is it an Abarth 124 Coupe?

    BrianD3


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    <sherlock h.> British reg, RHD, so most likely either Japanese or European. It doesn't look Japanese, so it must be European </sherlock h.>

    And it's not British

    <sherlock h.> So it is European, not British, so it's normally LHD. This one is RHD so it must be a fairly common car that they bothered to produce it with RHD as well. Probably one of the top 10 (or so) continental European car manufacturers of the time so </sherlock h.>


    I thought of all that (well most of it!) but I cant spot any styling clues..

    Mike.


  • Registered Users Posts: 64,548 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    BrianD3 wrote:
    It looks very FIAT. Is it an Abarth 124 Coupe?

    124 Coupe:

    124coupe_srs2.jpg

    So nope
    mike65 wrote:
    I thought of all that (well most of it!) but I cant spot any styling clues..

    BrianD3 did :)

    It's not a FIAT but the designer is from the same country


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  • Registered Users Posts: 19,307 ✭✭✭✭alastair


    It's a Simca Bertone coupe, but someones stuck a grill on the front. Not much use to the engine in the boot.


  • Registered Users Posts: 64,548 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    alastair wrote:
    It's a Simca Bertone coupe

    Hot, so hot :D

    Gonna give you a cigar anyway but someone has got to come up with the details


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,125 ✭✭✭beer enigma


    Yeah - thats not a standard Bertone Coupe though...the wheels are wrong & the original didn't have air vents on the bonnet - besides, most of the standard bertone coupe's were around 1966/67 & that's a UK 'G' reg which puts it at 1969

    I'm going for the cigar again.....

    Not sure of the details, but Simca produced a Bertone 'S' Coupe around '69 - I think it was an 1100 or 1200 cc engine ??


  • Registered Users Posts: 827 ✭✭✭PaulK_CCI


    Simca 1200S Coupé, produced from 67-71 with a 80bhp 1200cc engine in the back. The 2nd incarnation of the model as the 1st series, the 1000 Coupé ran from 62-67 without an open grill at the front and a measly 998cc engine.
    It's sitting on non-standard alloys and it's an extremely rare survivor in RHD, since they already were extremely rust sensitive on the continent, let alone in a "damper" climate as the UK and Irl...


  • Registered Users Posts: 64,548 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    PaulK_CCI wrote:
    Simca 1200S Coupé

    Big Cuban cigar for you :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭Alfasudcrazy


    Such a knowledgeable lot on here - and I thought I knew all types of cars :confused:


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