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  • grahampetersgrahampeters Member Posts: 1,786
    G'day

    Would have been an awfully slow fire engine!

    Cheers

    Graham
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,388
    Chrysler 200 rebadged as a Lancia?

    Nope, the current Thema is a re-badged Chrysler 300. The re-badged 200 is sold as the Lancia Flavia>

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    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    edited January 2013
    That's my sister in law's name so she wants one!

    My dad has a 200c so she may get to ride in it when she visits.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,388
    That's my sister in law's name so she wants one!

    Your SIL's name is Lancia? :confuse:

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  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    (Ana) Flavia. :shades:
  • texasestexases Member Posts: 10,704
    "(Ana) Flavia"

    That's a relief, I though it was "200"... :P
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    Marketing that car as a Lancia Flavia is like driving a stake through my heart :cry: --well, Fiat treated the Lancia name no better in the 1980s.

    Everyone should have the pleasure of driving a 50s Lancia sedan or 70s Lancia Stratos rally car just to know how advanced, capable and thrilling these cars used to be.

    Speaking of rare Lancias:

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 10,704
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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,388
    That Lancia woodie must be a derivation of the Aurelia. Me want!

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  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    Yep, an Aurelia woody. Very rare indeed. I have personally never seen one, and I've seen some weird stuff.
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    edited January 2013
    Edmunds has been posting these over on Tumbler for a while now.
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  • uplanderguyuplanderguy Member Posts: 16,093
    Amphicar?
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  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    edited January 2013
    Lol, no, but props for coming up with that oddball. It's not exactly a street car and is reportedly the first production race car in the world to feature an air dam.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,388
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    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 57,137
    Alpine A110? Odd sight with a non Euro background.
  • berriberri Member Posts: 10,165
    I guess that rules out Checker! Kind of looks like one of those cabs from the rear.
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    It's a Datsun 2000 BRE Roadster. Check out the '59 De Ville tailights too.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,388
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    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • qbrozenqbrozen Member Posts: 32,933
    Looks a helluva lot like a distorted Alfa 8C. Even the same color as the model I have sitting on my shelf.

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  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    An 8C that had way too much plastic surgery.
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    Gee I wonder if that would suck up the leaves in my driveway?
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    That's one pricey leaf blower. :D
  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 50,510
    that, birds, stray trash blowing around, racoons, etc.

    I would really consider putting some kind of screen on that snout.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,388
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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,388
    The maroon car w the big snout is a Perana Z1, the body is by Zagato, the motor by Chevrolet (LS6) and the chassis by Perana of South Africa. I guess I like it better than most of you. It reminds me of specials like the Bizzarinni Strada and the Gordon-Keeble.

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  • explorerx4explorerx4 Member Posts: 19,303
    edited January 2013
    Gordon-Keeble. Like this one? image
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  • grahampetersgrahampeters Member Posts: 1,786
    G'day

    That looks gorgeous. I think it is French post war from the lines, but not sure of coach-builder or underlying chassis.

    The shadow just below the top of the screen, makes me think it might be a Sedanca De Ville rather than a coupe or sedan body. However they pretty much disappeared before the second world war, so suspect it is a coach-built vehicle

    Cheers

    Graham
  • grahampetersgrahampeters Member Posts: 1,786
    G'day

    This has been niggling at me all afternoon. Sort of like a Chapron body, possibly on a Delahaye chassis. But I am not sure that is right.

    There was also a gorgeous body on a Talbot Lago with approximately this shape to nose, but proportions look wrong.

    Cheers

    Graham
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,154
    This is a Delahaye - probably a 235 - and the body looks really swoopy and curvy, so is the coachbuilder Sauchock (? spelling)?
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,388
    You guys are on the ball, it is indeed a 1949 Delahaye 175 with a Sedan DeVille body by Saoutchik.

    Saoutchik was probably the most flamboyant of the French coachbuilders that dominated auto styling during the 30s and 40s. Changes in French tax laws killed their business in the 50s and the Italians took over.

    The pictured car went for $1.8 million @ Barret-Jackson last week.

    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
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    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • michaellnomichaellno Member Posts: 4,120
    Vauxhall Corsa (?) - 80's vintage.
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    Right make. Wrong model.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    I will guess Opel Kadett.

    They sold Kadetts in Brazil as Chevys, and that looks awfully familiar.

    They're bigger than Corsas, about a size up.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 57,137
    The pictured car is Kadett E based - but is not an Opel. UK variant would be Vauxhall Astra.
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    Actually, the car is a 1989 Vauxhall Belmont sold in the UK. We suffered with this car as the Daewoo-built Pontiac LeMans.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 57,137
    Oh that's right, Belmont was the trunkback version, I think.

    I remember a family friend had a new LeMans, ca. 1988-89. I don't recall them having any big issues with it (of course, they dumped it by 1994-95 or so), but it was definitely built to that low price.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Brazil only saw the 3 door hatch, IIRC.
  • grahampetersgrahampeters Member Posts: 1,786
    G'day

    Sold as the Vauxhall Belmont when I first went to Britain in 1990. IT was just an Astra with a boot.

    Oddly, we have just sold mum's Astra from about the same era, as she is no longer driving. I was too terrified of the risk to pass it on to any of her grandchildren and was grateful to get $1,000 for it. Driving it is a real reminder of how much car safety has advanced in the past 25 years.

    Cheers

    Graham
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 57,137
    In europe, trunkback versions of existing cars are seen as made for old people. In Germany, Jetta/Bora is definitely an old persons car.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Same in the US, baby boomers love trunks.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,388
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    BIGGER!

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  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Red 57 Chevy Bel Air to get things started.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 57,137
    I'll pick off the little Corvair Monza Spyder in front of "French Shriner".

    I don't see any 57 Chevies :shades:
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,388
    I don't see any 57 Chevies

    Are you talking about that red car in front of the French Shriner sign. That's no Chebby, it's a Buick, a '58 I think.

    Keep 'em coming. :shades:

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  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Yep, should have noticed the details in the profile. Aren't they platform-mates?
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,388
    Aren't they platform-mates?


    I don't think so, they didn't share platforms so much back then, if Buick were to share platforms w anyone it would most likely be Olds.

    They shared things like steering/brake components but each division had it's own motors and (IIRC) chassis.

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  • uplanderguyuplanderguy Member Posts: 16,093
    I see a '62 Cadillac Series 62 or Coupe deVille, and a '60 Buick LeSabre or Invicta.
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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,388
    Yup, plenty of Buicks in that shot, anyone see the '56 (look in BIGGER version)?

    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

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