Mystery car pix

andys120

Sorry Fezo, Stephen is way ahead of you. :P

fezo

He always is....

I would have gotten that as "Hey! It's Andre's car!"

andys120

fintail

Tatra 613, that one is likely 80s or early 90s production. Tatra was one of the best rays of hope in the Eastern Bloc during the cold war.

andys120

Yup, Tatra 613 it is.

andys120

jwilliams2

Looks like an early 50's Peugeot 203 Cabriolet...maybe a '52 or '53.....

andys120

Oui, it's a '52

fintail

Car in the middle

jwilliams2

Looks like a Citroen CX.....could be a 25 GTi maybe?

stickguy

a porsche 944.

and the real toughie. I will guess 2005ish Camry.

Mr_Shiftright

There's only one lens in the world like this, so you might get it:

Think of one of the wackiest cars ever mass produced by the Big Three

fintail

Yep, Citroen CX variant of some kind, probably early 80s, spotted in the parking garage of the local concours yesterday.

Inbetween a 944 and a previous generation Camry, and that's a fintail door mirror at lower right

stephen987

Shifty, this is a total shot in the dark: '34 Chrysler Airflow?

Mr_Shiftright

Bingo....you're good...you're REAL good.

stever

Too bad we have to disqualify y'all from the grand prize for breaking the "MY 1946 and newer only" rule from Post #1.

(and don't ask - there is no prize, grand or otherwise. :P )

andys120

michaellno

Subaru WRX STi that Travis Pastrana drove to the top of Mt. Washington in NH in record time last week.

andys120

Yep, broke the old record by an impressive 20 seconds!'
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Great video here (scroll down).

lemko

From which vehicle comes this unusual hood ornament?

andys120

I'm not sure but it breaks the "no-pre WWII rule".

Mr_Shiftright

Well WW II was really just an extension of WW I, so I think, technically, we're fine. :P

(juuuust kidding).

fintail

Looks like a Buck Rogers ship. Is it Mopar?

I do believe that's a 36-37 Packard in the background.

99accent

could it be a Tucker

jwilliams2

That's gotta be from a '36-37 Hupmobile...

lemko

Correct!

andys120

stickguy

A7

andys120

Ja!

andys120

wgrafer

'72 Plymouth Fury I. Is this a real NYC cop car or a tribute??????

andys120

It's a recreation by a guy who probably needs a life :P

Here's the story.

Mr_Shiftright

He's a fake. Factory New York cops in civvies ALWAYS wear white socks. That's how we kids used to spot them. :P

andys120

Y'all probably know this one but what a great picture.

stephen987

Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder?

andys120

Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder?

Nope, sorry. FYI Ferrari, Alfa and Fiat spell it S-p-i-d-e-r.

Only Maserati and Porsche spell it with a y. In any case it's not a 250 GT of any kind.

Mr_Shiftright

Looks like a 275 GTS---tough to get the year exactly right on these....I'm thinkin about 1965-66.

andys120

That's it Mr. S. There was another 275 Spider, the 275 GTB/4 NART Spider , concieved by Ferrari's US importer Luigi Chinetti. Essentially it was a chop-top GTB/4 Coupe, 10 built all for the US market. Today they're more valuable than Daytona Spiders.>



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Mr_Shiftright

I might be able to find you one for $8 million or so.

lemko

What Ferrari was the one that got trashed in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off?" Hopefully, the one that went backwards through the plate glass window off a cliff was a replica!

stickguy

not sure of the exact model, but I do know that it was a replica. Even in those days, a little pricey to trash making a movie!

andys120

A replica of the Ferrari 250GT California based on an MG chassis was trashed in FBDO>

Replica:


Real:


There were several variants of the Spider California which came in long or short wheelbase form and some had open headlights while others had the glass fairings.
To make things even screwier it's easy to confuse some special bodied 250GT Pinifarina Spiders with the California. I saw a Fantuzzi-bodied PF that looked very much like a Spider California.

The less said about the current production California Spider, the better. It's the ugliest Ferrari ever to go into series production IMO.

stephen987

It's the ugliest Ferrari ever to go into series production IMO.

I disagree. While the current California is a bit overwrought, consider these prancing warthogs:

qbrozen

2 statements in reply:

1. There is no such thing as an ugly Ferrari
2. The "ugliest Ferrari" is like comparing the "ugliest supermodel"

andys120

There's no accounting for taste is there? I happen to like the 330GT 2+2, it's a nice clean design, you might be surprised to know I prefer the four headlight version shown, it looks more substantial than the two-h/l revision.

As for the Dino 308 GT/4, I think it's an OK, if not thrilling design (only production
Ferrari styled by Bertone IIRC).

The 308 Mondial is a bit boring but hardly ugly especially compared to this misbegotten shape>



Just for a change of pace here's my candidate for the best-looking Ferrari>

ateixeira

I was gonna guess on that 275 but I wanted to see the image again so I didn't. :shades:

Mr_Shiftright

It's interesting that people will pay more for the 2 headlight version---perhaps $25,000 more. So most people seem to be willing to put money on their opinion of "beauty".

The 308 GT4 is an unfortunate car, style-wise, and as a consequence, it is about the cheapest Ferrari you can buy, tied with the Mondial 8 coupe, another Ferrari "mutt" if one might use the term. A smart shopper might nick one for $20,000.

stephen987

then again, there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Ferrari (or Rolls, or [insert exotic marque here])

My favorite, purely from a styling point of view, is this one, which has the added benefit of looking better in blue or silver than in red:

Mr_Shiftright

The Italians have been pounding on metal for a long, long time and it shows.

berri

I think they hit their apex in the sixties though, although that may be true for most car designers.