Mystery car pix

Mr_Shiftright

Okay I'm a bit confused, but here's the car from Scotland. To be fair, they only made about ten of them:

andys120

It looks like a kit car, other than that I'm clueless.

firemanjack

Hehehe...I know the Scots are known for their thrift...but criminy..at least put doors on the car..Thanks Jack

andys120

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.

Who wants to play?

imidazol97

Does anyone know why I can't see a graphic again in #3879?

Mr_Shiftright

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.

kyfdx

I can't see it, either..

imidazol97

I even typed the secret code word and it still wouldn't show up!

boomchek

I can't see it and the earlier link needed me to sign up for a chatroom.

andys120

$#%^&@ computers, I guess that just isn't gonna work.

Try this one>>>

fintail

I'll guess a 66 Comet Cyclone or something to that effect

Like most cars from that time period, it is pretty decently styled

andys120

You're close, it's a '67 Comet Caliente.

andys120

fintail

Easy, Honda Prelude c.1980

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.

andys120

How about this 'un?>>

fintail

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.

andys120

Well, I smoked you on the model, and the
AC ME3000 wasn't introduced 'til '79. :P

'Nuther easy one (pretty car)>>

boomchek

Looks like a Bonneville Station Wagon. I'd guess it's from 66?

fintail

It's a Bonnie wagon alright, I'll guess a 64

I know that AC from somewhere, it's bugging me...maybe I had a toy of it.

subearu

The guys are close, but I think it's a 63 Bonneville, perhaps a Safari (I think that's what they were called back then).

-Brian

andys120

LOL, you guys were hitting everything but the target until Brian hit the Bull's Eye.....
'63 Bonneville Safari, it is.

andys120

subearu

A Toyota that isn't sold in the States (even though it's LHD). I think there's turbo versions of these out there too. :shades:

Early '90's Starlet or something?

-Brian

andys120

You're hot Brian, got the Starlet off a Russian website.

manifold

manifold

boomchek

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.

steine13

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...

-Mathias

navigator89

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.

scootertrash

bumpy

Toyota Avensis Verso, what amounts to the minivan version of the Scion tC.

andys120

steine13

Ooooh Ooooh I finally get a shot at a gimme... I'm so excited....

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

fintail

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.

imidazol97

Are these imported into the US?

bumpy

boomchek

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.

andys120

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.

andys120

steine13

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.

-Mathias

navigator89

Yes, it is the Honda Jazz. I saw a white one. I will post pictures soon.

andys120

It's a Renault, hence the Renault emblem on the hood, a '74 Renault 5. :P

andys120

in some years>>

steine13

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.

Amazing.
-Mathias

stickguy

looks like a late 60's/early 70's Fiat 124 coupe.

andys120

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).

andys120

fintail

Ford Fiesta c. 1976-78

yoribe2

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.

boomchek