Mystery car pix

andys120

navigator89

It's not a tuner or a Ferrari.

Here's a hint to you all, it's from a relatively obscure manufacturer mentioned in the Inside Line news for today.

andys120

Well that's a pretty good hint, it's an Ascari A10.

I'd much rather have a Ferrari.

ateixeira

I see the Audi rings...but I don't pay much attention to Audis before the AWD models arrived in the 80s...



-juice

navigator89

Actually andy, I'm sorry you're still wrong.

I said manufacturer, not model as well!

It's an Ascari KZ1 which I first saw in PGR2 on xbox.

Me too, I'd rather have an Enzo Ferrari.

andys120

Audi was not the only car to use the Four Rings (hint).

steine13

Whoo-Hoo, looks like I *might* get another one!

DKW Junior, my parents' first car.
I'm too little to remember it first-hand, but I think that's what it was.
Our next car was a bigger DKW 1000, which was a hunk of junk.

These Juniors went 160 km/h, given enough time.
Probably not a really good idea.

-Mathias

andys120

Jawhol! It's a DKW Junior ca. 1960. The Four Ring or stood for the four brands that formed
the Auto Union AG: Audi, Horch, Wanderer and DKW
(Deutsche Kraft Werke) and all of those brands wore the rings after the mid 30s.

andys120

fintail

Rolls Mulliner Park Ward coupe, by the bumpers I believe that's an early version that predates the Corniche, c.1967-70

Doesn't DKW = Das Kleine Wunder?

steine13

D eutsche
K raftwagen
W erke

-Mathias

andys120

It is a Corniche, 1970MY. I think Das Kliene Wunder was a popular nickname like Fix Or Repair Daily or Fix It Again Tony. :P

andys120

Motor Trend Car of the Year. :confuse:

fintail

64 Falcon I think

andys120

Yup, a 260 Sprint.

andys120

andys120

It's a product of a famous design house that found itself in a bit of a rut at the time it was made and kept repeating the same design that found itself on automobiles both expensive and inexpensive during that era.

fintail

Looks kind of like an early 60s Fiat 1500 front end, but I don't know the back

andys120

It's a '63 Fiat 1600, note the unique hood bulge.
Except for that Pininfarina used almost the exact same styling in several other vehicles including the Fiat 1500 Spider, the Lancia Appia coupe
and even the Ferrai 250GT PF.

They are pretty though.

andys120

ateixeira

AMC Eage I believe.

They sold those in 4WD with raised suspensions, but before anyone says they were first, Subaru beat them to it and had a 4WD raised wagon way back in 1972.

-juice

fintail

I think I can see "Spirit" on the side of it

c.1980

andys120

Good eye Fin, it's a 1981 AMC Spirit.

andys120

ateixeira

Not my era at all, but I'll guess Pontiac Firebird, circa 1972 or so.

-juice

bumpy

Lovely alignment between the hood and fender trim. Came from the factory that way, no doubt.

andys120

You're off by a couple of years, Juice. It's a '69 Firebird. Bumpy is right about the misaligment between headlight trim and fenders. They were never right on Ponchos of that era, I oughta know, I owned one.

andys120

stickguy

'74 Toyota of some sort? Looks like RHD, or it might just be the quality of the picture. Resembles a 2 door Corona.

ateixeira

If not Toyota, I'd say Datsun. But the B210 was funkier looking than that.

-juice

fintail

Yeah that's Datsun style badging on the side. Looks bigger than a B210

andys120

Not a B210, I don't think we got this particular Datsun in the US of A. Anybody want to take another stab at it.

ontop

Either a 210 or a 510

michaellno

Is the Datsun 810 Coupe, or whatever they called it in the home market.

andys120

It's a Datsun 240-KGT, ca. mid-70's, at least that's what was called in the Euro market, in the JDM it was known by a name familiar to some of you: "Skyline" which makes it an ancestor of the awesome Skyline GT-Rs.

Interestingly the 240-K came in two and four door form.

andys120

tim66

I would guess a 59 or 60 Pontiac Chieftain..

imidazol97

1960.

andys120

1960 Bonneville.

andys120

boomchek

Boy, what an ugly looking car, imo. Must be some kind of Opel or euro Ford from the early 70's or something.

steine13

Opel Manta, "A" Type.

The original and best "German muscle car", ca. 70 hp of firebreathing hell.

Darling of gold-chain-wearing youth everywhere, and the butt of a bottomless pit of bad jokes in the late 80s/early 90s.

This one lives near the (former) Ruesselsheim plant; it has a Gross-Gerau license plate. Less than ten miles from my home town.

-Mathias

kyfdx

Didn't they sell this as an Isuzu in the U.S.?

imidazol97

Does anyone know the model name for that Pontiac? It's got 4 portholes (err, stripes) on the rear chrome piece. That looks upscale to me. I got lost on model names through the years for those.

You could put a sleeping bag on that trunk and camp out overnight in the woods it's so l o n g.

stickguy

isn't that a Kadette? either that, or the Manta was redesigned by the time the last US models (74-75) came along. I had a '75. What a mistake that was (only year it had FI, and they only sold about 10 in this country. You do the math).

The later Opels were made by Isuzu (hence the Opel by Isuzu name), and had nothing to do with the real German Opels.

steine13

Darn it, you're right... it's not a Manta -- nor is it a Kadett -- but I believe it's an Opel Rekord two-door, mid-seventies.
Opels are numbered by letters; I *think* it's a "B" series.

-Mathias

andys120

It is a Kadette, MY 1966. The Pontiac was a Bonneville, MY 1960, top of the line for that year IIRC.

oregonboy

The Opel Kadette advertising tag-line was "The Mini-Brute" (hahahahahahaha!!!)

My best friend's father bought one in 1969. He thought it was a pretty cool sport sedan until I took him for a ride in my BMW 1600. :P

james

flpcguy

I remember a car just like this when I lived in Ruesselsheim in 1976! My Greek neighbors all worked at the Opel plant and may even have been the owners of one like this that was in the neighborhood. They were quite common even in yellow or red with the black hood trim.

I worked at Rhein-Main (US Air Force). I lost touch with my hausmeister Hans Schoch who lived at 35 Hans Thoma Str and sold Thuringa insurance. He was from Bishofsheim nearby and probably still lives in the area. I would greatly appreciate it if you could try to contact him. I can be reached at hotmail.com as strapane.

Mr_Shiftright

Would that make a Fiat Abarth 650 a "micro-brute"?