Author Topic: Puzzle #267 - Solved! Simca 1200 Campero (Read 3342 times)

Otto Puzzell · « **on:** March 27, 2007, 04:49:57 AM »

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MG · « **Reply #1 on:** March 28, 2007, 07:05:55 AM »

Johnny Damon auditioning ???for GEICO commercials?

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #2 on:** March 28, 2007, 10:58:52 AM »

grobmotorix · « **Reply #3 on:** April 02, 2007, 07:55:31 AM »

looks like a heavily modified Fiat 127, prepaired for a long-distance run.

GRAYWOLF · « **Reply #4 on:** April 02, 2007, 09:30:02 AM »

Is it a VW?

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #5 on:** April 02, 2007, 09:30:59 AM »

Not a FIAT or VW.

grobmotorix · « **Reply #6 on:** April 02, 2007, 09:42:36 AM »

O.K., maybe some Fiat based Moretti etc.?

But Fiat/Zastava based $:-\$

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #7 on:** April 02, 2007, 12:44:29 PM »

Not FIAT-, Zastava-, or Moretti-based.

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #8 on:** April 20, 2007, 02:57:20 PM »

The trail grows cold...

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #9 on:** April 20, 2007, 02:59:43 PM »

One thing you might have noticed about this pic - it's plain it's not raining. But the car's in the hills, so that might explain...

GRAYWOLF · « **Reply #10 on:** April 20, 2007, 03:56:43 PM »

Spanish fly

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #11 on:** May 02, 2007, 05:38:49 AM »

Now that's just silly.

GRAYWOLF · « **Reply #12 on:** May 02, 2007, 09:37:43 AM »

Brazilian Beetle...heard on the radio this morning that there in a beetle down there that can keep you up for 2 hours or something like that!

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #13 on:** May 02, 2007, 11:31:33 AM »

...and that was just egregious.

pieter · « **Reply #14 on:** May 04, 2007, 06:12:51 AM »

Off topic: Karn, what's with the Autopuzzler Emeritus?

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #15 on:** May 04, 2007, 09:41:10 AM »

Nothing - I was just goofin' around.

SeaLion · « **Reply #16 on:** May 04, 2007, 12:21:50 PM »

The puzzle car is perhaps based on a fwd Renault? Renault 16 or 12?

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #17 on:** May 05, 2007, 06:56:23 AM »

Not Renault-based.

Tuckeroo · « **Reply #18 on:** May 23, 2007, 04:43:55 PM »

My first attempt at a correct response to a pro puzzle (here goes)...I'm guessing an ARO 10 from around the early 1980s...or would that be Renault based?

grobmotorix · « **Reply #19 on:** May 24, 2007, 12:42:33 AM »

As I stay with the Fiat wheels my last guess is Seat.

Maybe some homemade plastic-bodied globetrotterish long-distance "runner" from Spain or South-America.

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #20 on:** May 24, 2007, 04:15:12 AM »

Not a FIAT, a SEAT, or home-built. It is Spanish, however.

Tuckeroo · « **Reply #21 on:** May 24, 2007, 01:10:56 PM »

Okay, think I got it...A Simca 1200 Campero circa 1973-74, a product of Chrysler-Rootes and the Madrid-based Barreiros company.

GRAYWOLF · « **Reply #22 on:** May 24, 2007, 01:28:22 PM »

The SIMCA 1200 Campero was a Matra Rancho-type of vehicle built in Spain by a Chrysler España dealership in Madrid called Talleres Panades. It was designed by Antonio Madueño, a tuning and specialist car builder from Madrid, for off-road use on forest tracks and unmade roads and based around Spanish Simca 1200 (neé Simca 1100) components. The idea of the vehicle was to bridge the gap between the 2-wheel drive Citroen Mehari and the true 4 wheel drive off-road vehicles being sold in Spain at that time, i.e. the Jeep Ebro Comando and the Santana Land-Rover. It used the Simca 1200´s floorpan with a very square-shaped Matra Rancho-style 2 door body made from glass fibre and polyester. It could carry loads of up to 500 kg, while the whole vehicle unladen weighed approximately 880 kg.

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #23 on:** May 24, 2007, 01:33:00 PM »

Quote from: Tuckeroo on May 24, 2007, 01:10:56 PM

Okay, think I got it...A Simca 1200 Campero circa 1973-74, a product of Chrysler-Rootes and the Madrid-based Barreiros company.

Yes! Well done, Tuckeroo.

Tuckeroo · « **Reply #24 on:** May 24, 2007, 03:00:33 PM »

Yea, my first pro-puzzle solved! Thanks, I guess this puts me in the big leagues, oh boy!

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Author Topic: Puzzle #267 - Solved! Simca 1200 Campero (Read 3342 times)