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    andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,392
    edited June 2019
    fintail said:

    I thought the same about the billboard, and technically that counts too :)

    Sure, it counts, honestly I didn't even notice.
    I'm struck by the number of 124 Sport coupes, a type relatively rare over here. I guess this is a middle class section of Rome where cars like the 124 SC are thought of as family cars a step above the ubiquitous Fiat 500/600s but oddly I see no 124 Berlinas (4drs) a very popular all over the globe-except NA.

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    texasestexases Member Posts: 10,711
    edited June 2019
    andys120 said:
    A BMW Neue Classe, who knows what number they had in Italy, 1602?
    I don't think that's a Bimmer but I can't quite place it. Don't think it's a Fiat either.
    I think you’re right. Maybe an Alfa or Lancia?
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    andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,392
    texases said:



    I think you’re right. Maybe an Alfa or Lancia?

    Possibly a Lancia Fulvia Berlina?



    The C-post looks wider than in the other photo but that could be a production yr change.
    I don't see the mid-trunk lid notch that would make it an Alfa Giulia.



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    omarmanomarman Member Posts: 2,702
    Below the billboard is a man standing at the driver's side of a car which looks like this Fiat 1300:

    And behind that is a car which looks like this Italian Ford Anglia Torino:
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    ab348ab348 Member Posts: 19,095
    omarman said:


    And behind that is a car which looks like this Italian Ford Anglia Torino:

    Now, you cannot post that pic and not tell us what that 3-wheeler in the background is!

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    omarmanomarman Member Posts: 2,702
    Regal looking ain't it? B)
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    andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,392
    omarman said:

    Below the billboard is a man standing at the driver's side of a car which looks like this Fiat 1300:

    And behind that is a car which looks like this Italian Ford Anglia Torino:

    I never knew there was an Italian Ford.

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    andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,392
    edited June 2019
    ab348 said:

    omarman said:


    And behind that is a car which looks like this Italian Ford Anglia Torino:

    Now, you cannot post that pic and not tell us what that 3-wheeler in the background is!
    Isn't that a Reliant Robin, Jeremy Clarkson's candidate for worst handling car of all time? It was supposed to provide transportation for handicapped vets of WWII.

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    omarmanomarman Member Posts: 2,702
    Some pics and info on this page regarding This new design was drawn up by Michelotti and built by Officina Stampaggi Industriala (O.S.I)
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    ab348ab348 Member Posts: 19,095
    andys120 said:


    Isn't that a Reliant Robin, Jeremy Clarkson's candidate for worst handling car of all time? It was supposed to provide transportation for handicapped vets of WWII.

    Nope, that's not a Robin.

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    omarmanomarman Member Posts: 2,702
    Half credit though because it's a Reliant Regal.
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    andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,392
    edited June 2019
    omarman said:

    Half credit though because it's a Reliant Regal.

    It is probably as ill-handling as the Robin. The Top Gear segment on it where Clarkson keeps rolling one is really funny. I wonder what posessed Reliant to use a 1 wheel in front-2 in back layout. That's a recipe for bad cornering behavior which is why vehicles like the CanAm Spider and the Polaris Slingshot do the opposite (2 in front-1 in back).

    Reliant went on to build a decent four-wheel sports car, the Scimitar

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    texasestexases Member Posts: 10,711
    Jeep?
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    stickguystickguy Member Posts: 50,558
    Based on rest of garage guessing VW based. Earlier version of the Thing?

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    texasestexases Member Posts: 10,711
    Nothing to do with an aircooled VW.
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    fintailfintail Member Posts: 57,174
    DKW Munga, I believe.
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    texasestexases Member Posts: 10,711
    Yep. distant relative of the Quattro:
    https://jalopnik.com/this-old-german-jeep-is-the-grandfather-of-audis-legen-1485767284
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    magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,156
    I've been to Menton while staying at San Remo about ten years ago.

    The VW looking car virtually alongside the chap walking from the tall dark truck is a Renault 750 /4CV
    Isn't that a dark M-B Ponton alongside the approaching Ariane?
    I'll pick up on one particular oddity. To the right third car up just beyond a blue / white Peugeot 403 is a little grey van. That is a Renault Dauphinoise, which was an estate car version of the old Renault Juvaquattre dating back to the 40s but still made until about 1960 - it was named Dauphinoise.
    Going away from us is a Peugeot 203 Fourgonette
    I must say that Simca roadster to the left looks much like an early Sunbeam Alpine too.

    Note the yellow / white Citroen DS has an Italian numberplatewhich is why it spoils the line of the rear.
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    magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,156
    Reliant made commercial vehicles based on the front half of a motorbike and a box van on the back on the mid thirties and sold thousands of them - it was only later they made cars too, but of course they used the single front wheel layout for those as well. In Austerity britain (probably coming back soon...) people didn't all drive quite like Clarkson, and many only had a motorbike to replace...
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    magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,156
    indeed we also would have had really great three wheelers made by Morgan with two front wheels - and they were proper sporting machines... Since revived in last ten years or so....
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    andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,392

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    omarmanomarman Member Posts: 2,702
    edited June 2019
    Through the glass I think that's a Ford Model A on the other side.

    edit: maybe like this 1928 model A on wiki.

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    fintailfintail Member Posts: 57,174
    Looks like a Borgward Isabella Kombi, and I agree, a Model A Tudor behind it.
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    andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,392
    fintail said:

    Looks like a Borgward Isabella Kombi, and I agree, a Model A Tudor behind it.

    Yup, the Isabella is MY 1960 Don't know the MY of the Model A.

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    andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,392

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    stickguystickguy Member Posts: 50,558
    Ford escort EXP. Early -mid 80s.

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    tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,243
    Wow, a Ford EXP! Early 80’s.
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    ab348ab348 Member Posts: 19,095
    I wonder if the EXP (or its LN7 cousin) looked good on paper. It sure did not in the real world.

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    texasestexases Member Posts: 10,711
    I remember an interview with Lee Iaccoca where he boasted 'the young folks will just eat these up' or something to that effect...oops...
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    fintailfintail Member Posts: 57,174
    I had a toy EXP when I was a kid, yellow with an opening rear hatch. I thought it was a kind of cool sporty car, kind of a weird face/eyes though.
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    magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,156
    We never saw the EXP nor its relatives here so this is a complete unknown to me.... I gather it wasn't all it was hoped for.
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    texasestexases Member Posts: 10,711
    It garnered the unfortunate nickname 'frogface'...
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    omarmanomarman Member Posts: 2,702
    ...and then it croaked.
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    tjc78tjc78 Member Posts: 15,928
    They got a better front end in the later years.

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    bhill2bhill2 Member Posts: 2,473
    texases said:

    It garnered the unfortunate nickname 'frogface'...

    My cousin had a friend who had one. He referred to his EXP as the POS (the P and O stood for Piece Of).

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    andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,392

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    kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 237,280
    andys120 said:


    '69 Baur 2002 Cabriolet?

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    texasestexases Member Posts: 10,711
    I was surprised, I thought all Baurs had the 'basket handle'. But is this a 1602?
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    andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,392
    kyfdx said:

    andys120 said:


    '69 Baur 2002 Cabriolet?
    texases said:

    I was surprised, I thought all Baurs had the 'basket handle'. But is this a 1602?

    It's a 1971 BMW 1600 cabriolet by Baur. Some one has blacked out the grille to make it look like a 2002.

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    texasestexases Member Posts: 10,711
    And put on later wheels...
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    kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 237,280
    Yeah, those appear similar to E21 wheels

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    andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,392
    texases said:

    And put on later wheels...

    Those wheels didn't come along until the late 70s/early 80s.

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    andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,392

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    PF_FlyerPF_Flyer Member Posts: 9,372
    That kinda looks like some IRON!
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    stickguystickguy Member Posts: 50,558
    The Buick nova! About a 75. AKA Skylark.

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    andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,392
    stickguy said:

    The Buick nova! About a 75. AKA Skylark.

    Egg-zackly

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    imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,154
    How can one year be distinguished from another?

    On this one the taillight does not seem to have a chrome color stripe on it.
    On the 1975 in a brochure, it does have a bright line...

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    MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 241,336
    A little help?

    https://forums.edmunds.com/discussion/56627/general/x/help-identify-two-cars-in-photo-from-south-africa#latest

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