Mystery car pix

andys120

Last chance for the roadster in #30643.

Here it is again>

grahampeters

G'day

There are American influences to the look, but I think it might be British.

I've been pondering it and think probably a post war Alvis, from about 1948-50.

There was something odd about the doors, which I think opened the wrong way around (suicide doors). The front windscreen appears folded down and there are little aero screens in front of driver and passenger.

It is quite big for a British sports car.

Just searched and found the front view, confirming my guess

http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/gallery/15614/Alvis-TB14-Roadster.html

Not as pretty as a similar aged Jag, but rarer

Cheers

Graham

andys120

Nice going Graham, you found the exact same car (note plate number).

Ultimatecarpage.com doesn't give the MY but Motorbase.com says it is a 1948.

andys120

stever

Can't see it Andy.

Meanwhile, over the pond:

ateixeira

SEAT's version of the Up!

They should call it the 'Sup!

stever

Nope. Check again. :-)

ateixeira

Skoda's Up!?

I'll still call it the 'Sup!

stever

Sounds like a gas brand to me.

Skoda Citigo Is Czech Sibling of VW Up! (Inside Line)

fintail

Putting an exclamation mark on the name of an appliance should warrant a hanging :shades:

ateixeira

I like my name better. You don't envision Chavez when you hear the name.

ateixeira

FWIW that concept got a massively positive reaction at Frankfurt. Besides the new 911 it probably got the most buzz.

fintail

Of course, it was in Frankfurt. Germans tend to live VW products.

Can't wait to see the new BMW 123d!

stever

Just pull up to the Boise Library and you'll feel right at home.

fintail

Boise has a library? :P

Must be some kind of ironic hipster driven trend

texases

Next it'll be the

iUp!

or the

eUp!

fintail

With a joint venture from BMW to make the eUp!xDrive35isGTMactivehybrid

With the Mexican built cars out there, we need the upside down exclamation on something, maybe a tilde here and there, too.

ateixeira

They'll come out with a competitor to the X6, just as ugly, and call it the ThrowUp!

explorerx4

When those reviews were made, I was in high school but not old enough to actually drive, so I really enjoyed watching them.
Bud is a hoot. I first saw him when Speed channel used to broadcast a show he made about the stock cars races from the same era.

explorerx4

I'm guessing the eUP! will debut in Vermont.

fintail

With so much sketchy tasteless new money out there, your idea might become reality...it'd probably sell.

ateixeira

Toyota cannot keep up with demand for the Aston Martin Cygnet.

What about a competitor from VW, call it the..

yUPpie!

fintail

Or maybe a new line, the HIP!ster

Funny to see AM and Lotus whoring themselves as lifestyle brands for the sketchy new rich.

ateixeira

You must be refering to the Ethos?

http://green.autoblog.com/2011/09/29/lotus-ethos-plug-in-minicar-headed-to-u-s-i- n-2013/

Yeah, gotta wonder if premium makes should even bother. I realize everyone has a CAFE standard to meet, but just trade credits with other makes, perhaps for engineering assistance. We've all seen "Tuned by Lotus" badges before.

fintail

The whole fattening and overcomplex new Lotus lineup as a whole, really. So much against what the brand was supposed to stand for. They better hope this gilded age keeps up and gives them customers, the die-hards are not smiling.

ateixeira

I loved the Elise; they just cancelled it.

I guess the hard-core lighter-is-better mentality was faithful to Colin's philosophy but didn't exactly make the cash registers ring up.

There are probably 50,000 Priuses for each Elise sold. Something like that.

fintail

Colin is spinning in his grave right now. The name is being whored out so suits can make bank . I don't believe it will last too long, either, there was never a huge amount of brand equity to begin with.

It takes a few Elise or any other car with a little joy in its design to compensate for Prius and kin :shades:

andys120

andys120

Last call for the red coupe in #30675..going..going...

uplanderguy

I'm at a total loss...but then, at age 53 and being from a small town (not a suburb), we didn't even have a VW dealer when I was growing up, so imports often stump me. I will say our Studebaker dealer also sold Simca and Sunbeam in the mid'60's though. I know that photo isn't one of them!

uplanderguy

Lancia of some sort?

andys120

GONE!

The red coupe is a 1968 Moretti GS16 basically a rebodied Fiat 125/1600 , about 40 were made in '68-'69.

andys120

Yes it is postwar (1951).

wgrafer

Looks like a Mercedes Benz (per the hubcaps), but it does not look post-WWII to me.

andys120

Can anyone be a little more specific?

wgrafer

OK, how about a M-B 170. But I sure didn't think there were any post-war 4-door MB cabrios....

andys120

There you go, it's a 1951 Mercedes-Benz 170D.

Needs work, as they say>

andys120

stickguy

It's a dodge van. maybe a '65? Was it called an adventurer?

Gotta love the VW inspired use of your legs as the crumple zone.

fintail

The cabrio version like that was made for police work strangely enough, IIRC

uplanderguy

Very cool! I think that van was called the "Sportsman" and the panel version, the "Tradesman". That's a '65-67. Ironically, there's a green and white one, '68 or '69, with the pop-up camper top a la VW, that drives around our neighborhood. It's pretty darn presentable, too.

berri

Even more impressive, looking at the clothing and personal styles, I think that is a somewhat recent photograph rather than something from back then.

Mr_Shiftright

Hmmm.....I'm gonna guess a Mercedes Model 170S cabriolet B, about 1951 model. I don't think 170D is right.

andys120

Hmmm, perhaps you are right, Shifty...

the ad sez 170D in one place and 170B in another. :confuse: :sick:

uplanderguy

Geez, that front shot resembles a '34 Ford!

andys120

It's a '67 Dodge A100, I think you're right about the model names but frankly they've faded into obscurity (at least in my memory) but for some reason the A100 name has endured.

fintail

No such thing as a 170B, it's a D, and it's a police car (not in the standard "cabriolet a-b-c)" family. Here's one in normal police trim:

ateixeira

the A100 name has endured

So have the Tradesman name, but they now use it for a bargain-basement Hemi pickup truck, of all things!

Edit: adding a link:

http://www.insideline.com/ram/ram-pickup-1500/2011/2011-ram-tradesman-debuts-201- 1-chicago-auto-show.html

andys120

Mr_Shiftright

Well okay I guess the person selling it knows what it is ! :P The only real differences would be in running gear anyway, so we don't have any way to check from the photos. I give!