Mystery car pix

bumpy

The one in the picture is an AE86. Here's the FWD successor (AE92):

andys120

Matra Murena?

Yup, the Matra-Simca Murena is not to be confused with an earlier Murena from a different outfit>

andys120

So who wants to tell us the maker of the long black Murena?
(#9048)

Mr_Shiftright

A block of wood is a block of wood and a shoebox is a shoebox. That's all I see when I look at 80s cars....oh, there's the Lotus/Subaru cheese wedge".

Has anyone posted one of these yet?

andys120

Yep, we 've already done the Fitch Corvair Sprint.

Mr_Shiftright

Nope, it's not a Fitch Corvair!

MUCH rarer.....

chuck1959

It's '68.

bumpy

Yenko Stinger. Start with a Corvair Corsa, boost the turbo to somewhere north of 200hp, upgrade the drivetrain, then go have fun in the twisties until the engine flies apart.

Mr_Shiftright

Bingo! They only made a couple hundred of them. The American Porsche that never happened. Woe be to all who fail to read the boost gauge.

british_rover

andys120

rockylee

What is that thang ????? A Chin-E NSX ?

Rocky

michaellno

I'm guessing some sort of Lancia, but I can't put my finger on the model name ... Aurelia?

andys120

Nope not a Lancia, it does resemble the Aurelia Spider though, probably because they both had Pininfarina styling.

Mr_Shiftright

Old Alfa 2000 Spider?

andys120

Old Alfa 2000 Spider?

Sorry, youse are all around it but not hitting the target.
The white car is a 1964 Alfa Giulia Spider 1600 Normale.

andys120

This one's not too hard but can you remember the movie and the actress who drove it.

kyfdx

T-Bird in American Graffiti..

But, I thought Suzanne Somers was in the back, not driving?

Unless, of course, I'm completely off..

EDIT: Wait.. back seat?? :surprise:

andys120

Yer right, Suzanne Somers was the nameless Mystery Blonde who drove the White '56 T-Bird in American Graffiti

She had fun, fun, fun 'til her Daddy took the T-Bird away!

andys120

this one from AG>

Mr_Shiftright

The 50s Chevy I love to hate.

Some wise man once said it takes two people to design a car. One to start drawing it, and another standing behind him with a baseball bat to tell him when to stop.

58 chevy (impala?), definitely a "one-year only" design for Chevy with no continuity whatsoever to prior or future years. Odd duck in that way. I think it also had a one year only engine or did the 348 truck engine continue on another year or two?

1958--the year Detroit went mad.

chuck1959

58 chevy (impala?), definitely a "one-year only" design for Chevy with no continuity whatsoever to prior or future years.

Back in those days didn't GM do that every year?

bumpy

I think it also had a one year only engine or did the 348 truck engine continue on another year or two?

The 348 stuck around through 1961.

andys120

I hate the 58s too, but you missed the point of the post, which actor drove it in American Graffiti, extra points if you can remember the character's name, and the name of the guy in the still.

Mr_Shiftright

I didn't miss it, I just didn't know it. :P

johno111

His name is Charles Martin Smith, Character name is Terry "The Toad" Fields the girl with her head hanging out of the car I believe is Deby Celiz charater name is Wendy.

johno111

Corretion that's Candy Clark character is Debbie Dunham ..

andys120

'Kay the guy is Chas Martin Smith and the girl is Candy Clark.
Who was the owner of the '58 Impala, it wasn't Toad, he only borrowed it.

johno111

Ron Howard as Steve Bolander

andys120

Now you're talking

andys120

boomchek

Early 90s Dodge Dakota, probably a year or two before the redesign.

british_rover

british_rover

another

bumpy

It shakes its belly like a bowl full of jelly. :sick:

andys120

Early 90s Dodge Dakota, probably a year or two before the redesign.

Sorry Boomchek, Edmunds sez that's a '96, the Dakota was redesigned for '97). B Rover's white convertible is probably around that time as well. I'm only slighly familiar with the Shelby variant (ca. 91) shown in #9080.

british_rover

Not really a mystery pic but a mystery engine.

andys120

I'm going to guess that's a Viper V10 they're trying to shoe horn into a '69ish Mustang.

I think it'd be cool if someone could fit that V10 into a Plymouth Prowler.

Mr_Shiftright

No that looks like an overhead cam engine.

british_rover

Yup and it is a V8 DOHC engine...

Mr_Shiftright

Well whatever it is, it's worth more than the entire car.

ateixeira

DOHC engines tend to be a lot bigger outside than OHV engines.

We tend to refer to internal displacement, and often disregard the external size and weight of a powertrain, which are really what matters.

Here are Ford's 4.9l OHV engine and 4.6l DOHC engine next to each other, guess which is bigger?

british_rover

Well that makes sense there are four times as many cams and four times as many valves in the DOHC motor then the OHV engine.

I will let a few more people guess on the mystery engine before I post the article I saw it on.

andre1969

IIRC, Ford's 4.6 OHC engine is actually larger physically than the 460 big-block! Engines like the Ford smallblock and Chevy smallblock are actually relatively tiny things, even compared to contemporary engines like a Mopar 318, Olds 307, Pontiac 350, etc.

4 times as many valves? Have they started making 64-valve V-8's now?

british_rover

Bah you know what I meant...

Twice as many valves...

They do make a fair amount of Five valve V8s though. Ford made a Five valve V8 back in the mid 90s for a concept hot rod SUV.

Can't remember the name of it though.

andys120

To find out the identity of the Monster Motor, who can ID this car, and it's owner, seen peering into the driver's side?>

british_rover

Now this is a Hybrid... 1970s mustang with Sherman tank power

From the article...



Just thought I'd share some before and after pictures of my Ford GAA tank engine. All aluminum 1100 cubic inch V8 used in WWII Sherman Tanks. These were gas burners rated at 500 HP and 1050 Ft. Lbs. of torque for military service, but are capable of much much more using mostly stock parts.

fintail

That's John Lennon's Phantom V

Mr_Shiftright

I think British soldiers used to call the Sherman tanks "Ronsons", for rather grim and obvious reasons.

Gallows humor, to say the least. For those too young to know, "Ronson" was a popular cigarette lighter that would burst into flame at the flick of a finger.

british_rover

That was more because of the rather thing and rather light armor fitted to the Sherman compared to their german counterparts correct?