for Shifty to tell us what the weird Scottish car is no one has identified any of the cars in my '67 LeMans post>>
Three cars in the foreground are a lead pipe cinch, there are bits of five additional street cars that are identifiable (more or less) and of course the two race cars on the carrier.
Aye Jimmy, it's called a "Probe"...built by Dennis Adams who designed the Marcos body. So not a kit car really since the "factory" built them. Used a BMC 1800 engine.
This design was later revived by other companies (god knows why) and called the "Centaur" and then the "Pulsar". They also tried to sell it in Belgium using a VW floorpan. You know, it was the 60s and people did weird things like this all the time.
Back when I was in high school (early-mid 90s) there were several of those in the student parking lot, they were pretty popular. I rarely seem them anymore.
I know it's an AC...I don't know the model. I remember that from the copy of 'Automobile Year 1978' I had when I was little. I'll guess that as the year.
They both look like Suzuki Samurais, the white one a 4 door (I didn't even know they made them in 4 doors), and the plum one an updated version, probably early to mid 90's.
I think it was called the "SJ" or "SJ40" or something in Germany.... boy, that brings back memories. When I was little, say 19 years old, a friend of mine got this every-once-in-a-while job of driving cars for a transport company.
A couple times, I was asked along as an enthusiastic driver with a clean record... and one of those times, the owner, my friend, and I drove three identical SJ's from Frankfurt to Milan, Italy, via France... this is back in '82 or thereabouts, and there were still border controls of sorts.
The whole deal seemed crooked to me; we were taking the cars out of some dealer's stock who was going "bankrott", and driving them to another country... OK, I'm sure this is all on the up-and-up. And now we have to cross the flippin' border, and I'm the first guy in line, and I'm instructed to say we're just out on a lark, we're not transporting these cars elsewhere, and the reason the big guy in the last car has a different last time than either of us young studs is that he's our uncle. Yeah, that's right, he's the uncle.
Man-o-man, I nearly pooped my pants having to tell a uniformed official that rot with a straight face. You think I'm a square now (which I am) but at 19, I don't think I'd told a dozen lies my whole life. Anyway, it worked, as the guard was predictably too lazy to do anything about it, especially having been told we were headed for Italy on this little tour. I finally understand why we didn't go through Switzerland... I don't think a Swiss border guard would have let us through unscathed.
I learned a lot that day, about cars and some other stuff... on the way back, some idiot employee of the co. drove us over the San Berardino pass, rather than the San Berrnardino freeway/tunnel he had been instructed... at the peak, the owner wakes up, sees what's going on, and decides he's in a hurry and will drive himself... it's now very early in the morning, and it's just barely getting light. So he proceeds to drive this 123 Mercedes E230 down the mountain in a way that was gonna make me poop my pants. I'd never seen anything like it... after a while I realize that the man knew what he was doing and started to relax... a Mercedes is no sports car, but it was immensely secure and solid on that ride...
Thanks for the picture; I hadn't thought of that 24-hour-adventure in a long time...
I saw this recently at the Kuwait Auto Show. I'll post pictures of my experience later.
Let me tell you, there were some really sweet cars there that I got to sit in, ie, Audi RS4, A8, A6, 750Li, Range Rover Sport, Crossfire, Q45, H2, Navigator.
There were others that were cool, that I didnt sit in, like the Jaguar Portfolio, Carrera GT, GT, Gallardo, Phantom, WRX STI, EVO9, and a restored Charger with a 440 Magnum and a 427 Corvette Stingray.
How are autoshows in thr US? Do you get to sit in expensive cars? I have attended the one in Toronto regularly until 2002, and I remember only being able to sit in small, cheap, common cars. There was a lineup for a C-Class, for god's sake!
Best of all, here it was free, and less crowded!!!!!!!!
And wow, today marks the 3rd anniversary of my living here.
Autoshows in NA can really vary. I just went to the Seattle show last weekend...I sat in SL500/E55/A8/S4/XJ. I didn't see an S class at that show, which surprised me. Cheaper performance cars like WRX/EVO/etc were all open too, and had as much of a crowd as the higher end cars. I am pretty sure the XLR was open too. I'm not a SUV fan so I didn't look at those. I went to the Vancouver show in the spring, and sat in a SL65, C55, S500. I was surprised they had that SL open, and that was my highlight of the show. Maybe it's because MB are so common in Vancouver, but there were no crowds around them either. The dealers at the stand were also surprisingly nice. Of course the exotics like Lambos/Ferraris/Rolls etc were not open for such viewing, but I didn't expect that.
That Unimog also appears to be a later model, maybe around 1975-1980. I've never ridden in one, but I've sat in one.
Navigator's pink subcompact is the Honda Fit or in some markets Jazz, the car that we will be having in North America in about 5 months.
Scootertrash's SUV that looks like a Hummer is actually a Toyota Megacruiser. Expensive and very off road capable, supposed to compete with the Hummer.
The last picture by bumpy is a Mitsubishi FTO, mid 90's.
I'm not sure if Unimogs are officially imported to the US at this time but every now and then you do see one.
I tried my damndest to find a picture that wouldn't show the star in the grille but I guess if you know what they loook like you can't mistake 'em for anything else.
I recognized the Unimog before I saw the star... they really don't look like anything else. The modern Unimog is being important and occasioned a bunch of blather from journalists about it being the worst yet of a bad bunch of fuel hogs... blah blah blah.
They kinda missed the point; the Unimog is a tool in a much worse way than even the H1 Hummer, and I don't think that a lot of them got sold to private owners.
The car with th Renault emblem on the hood is probably a Romanian Dacia of some sort.
I thought it looked a lot like a 5, but I didn't think they even made a sedan version... but they build or built all kinds of goofy stuff in Eastern Europe.
Exactly right, it's a '69 (1438cc, gen I body style). Damn nice little car. Fiat consciously copied the Alfa formula with the 124 Sports (5 Speeds/DOHC engines, Bertone Coupes and Pininfarina Spiders).
It's a FASA Renault 7. I think the 4-door model was only made in Spain for the Spanish market (hence the Madrid license plates). Thanks for bringing back memories of my first trip to Spain in 1982! The Ford Fiesta Ghia (possibly made in Valencia?) is a nice complement.
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2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
Three cars in the foreground are a lead pipe cinch, there are bits of five additional street cars that are identifiable (more or less) and of course the two race cars on the carrier.
Who wants to play?
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This design was later revived by other companies (god knows why) and called the "Centaur" and then the "Pulsar". They also tried to sell it in Belgium using a VW floorpan. You know, it was the 60s and people did weird things like this all the time.
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Like most cars from that time period, it is pretty decently styled
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
Back when I was in high school (early-mid 90s) there were several of those in the student parking lot, they were pretty popular. I rarely seem them anymore.
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
AC ME3000 wasn't introduced 'til '79. :P
'Nuther easy one (pretty car)>>
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
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I know that AC from somewhere, it's bugging me...maybe I had a toy of it.
-Brian
'63 Bonneville Safari, it is.
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
Early '90's Starlet or something?
-Brian
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
2016 Audi A7 3.0T S Line, 2021 Subaru WRX
When I was little, say 19 years old, a friend of mine got this every-once-in-a-while job of driving cars for a transport company.
A couple times, I was asked along as an enthusiastic driver with a clean record... and one of those times, the owner, my friend, and I drove three identical SJ's from Frankfurt to Milan, Italy, via France... this is back in '82 or thereabouts, and there were still border controls of sorts.
The whole deal seemed crooked to me; we were taking the cars out of some dealer's stock who was going "bankrott", and driving them to another country... OK, I'm sure this is all on the up-and-up. And now we have to cross the flippin' border, and I'm the first guy in line, and I'm instructed to say we're just out on a lark, we're not transporting these cars elsewhere, and the reason the big guy in the last car has a different last time than either of us young studs is that he's our uncle. Yeah, that's right, he's the uncle.
Man-o-man, I nearly pooped my pants having to tell a uniformed official that rot with a straight face. You think I'm a square now (which I am) but at 19, I don't think I'd told a dozen lies my whole life. Anyway, it worked, as the guard was predictably too lazy to do anything about it, especially having been told we were headed for Italy on this little tour. I finally understand why we didn't go through Switzerland... I don't think a Swiss border guard would have let us through unscathed.
I learned a lot that day, about cars and some other stuff... on the way back, some idiot employee of the co. drove us over the San Berardino pass, rather than the San Berrnardino freeway/tunnel he had been instructed... at the peak, the owner wakes up, sees what's going on, and decides he's in a hurry and will drive himself... it's now very early in the morning, and it's just barely getting light. So he proceeds to drive this 123 Mercedes E230 down the mountain in a way that was gonna make me poop my pants. I'd never seen anything like it... after a while I realize that the man knew what he was doing and started to relax... a Mercedes is no sports car, but it was immensely secure and solid on that ride...
Thanks for the picture; I hadn't thought of that 24-hour-adventure in a long time...
-Mathias
I saw this recently at the Kuwait Auto Show. I'll post pictures of my experience later.
Let me tell you, there were some really sweet cars there that I got to sit in, ie, Audi RS4, A8, A6, 750Li, Range Rover Sport, Crossfire, Q45, H2, Navigator.
There were others that were cool, that I didnt sit in, like the Jaguar Portfolio, Carrera GT, GT, Gallardo, Phantom, WRX STI, EVO9, and a restored Charger with a 440 Magnum and a 427 Corvette Stingray.
How are autoshows in thr US? Do you get to sit in expensive cars? I have attended the one in Toronto regularly until 2002, and I remember only being able to sit in small, cheap, common cars. There was a lineup for a C-Class, for god's sake!
Best of all, here it was free, and less crowded!!!!!!!!
And wow, today marks the 3rd anniversary of my living here.
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
Seriously, I'm sure I'm not the only one who can get this, but I might be the only one who's ridden in one.
Mercedes Unimog
You can see the star in the grille.
-Mathias
That Unimog also appears to be a later model, maybe around 1975-1980. I've never ridden in one, but I've sat in one.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Scootertrash's SUV that looks like a Hummer is actually a Toyota Megacruiser. Expensive and very off road capable, supposed to compete with the Hummer.
The last picture by bumpy is a Mitsubishi FTO, mid 90's.
2016 Audi A7 3.0T S Line, 2021 Subaru WRX
I tried my damndest to find a picture that wouldn't show the star in the grille but I guess if you know what they loook like you can't mistake 'em for anything else.
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
They kinda missed the point; the Unimog is a tool in a much worse way than even the H1 Hummer, and I don't think that a lot of them got sold to private owners.
The car with th Renault emblem on the hood is probably a Romanian Dacia of some sort.
-Mathias
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
Amazing.
-Mathias
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2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
2016 Audi A7 3.0T S Line, 2021 Subaru WRX