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Q683 - solved - 1967 Crespi TC Estefano
« on: February 24, 2010, 07:40:02 PM »
What's the identity of this car?

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Re: Q683
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2010, 03:07:24 AM »
ID > experts

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Re: Q683
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2010, 02:49:46 AM »
Sportee Monno GT by Silver Star Industries?

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Re: Q683
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2010, 09:55:15 AM »

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Re: Q683
« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2010, 11:10:03 AM »
European?

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Re: Q683
« Reply #5 on: August 20, 2010, 04:30:26 PM »

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Re: Q683
« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2010, 01:58:30 AM »
Canadian?

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Re: Q683
« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2010, 08:41:43 AM »

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Re: Q683
« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2010, 12:19:49 PM »
Australia or New Zealand?

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Re: Q683
« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2010, 12:32:57 PM »
Australia or New Zealand?
neither of those ...

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Re: Q683
« Reply #10 on: August 21, 2010, 12:43:57 PM »
South America?

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Re: Q683
« Reply #11 on: August 22, 2010, 05:26:46 PM »

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Re: Q683
« Reply #12 on: August 26, 2010, 07:15:33 AM »
Looks like a Crespi to me.
perhaps a Crespi-Torino?

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Re: Q683
« Reply #13 on: August 27, 2010, 01:08:44 PM »
Looks like a Crespi to me.
perhaps a Crespi-Torino?

Crespi is correct! Puzzle locked for you to locate the correct ID of this car...

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Re: Q683
« Reply #14 on: August 28, 2010, 04:35:43 PM »
Crespi Tulia GT with a Tornado 3800cc engine.
Driver, event, etc, unknown without further research.

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Re: Q683
« Reply #15 on: August 28, 2010, 09:01:47 PM »
I've never seen one from quite this perspective and it is low!  You can still see the remnants of the Rambler American body it is based on, though.

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Re: Q683
« Reply #16 on: August 29, 2010, 08:05:35 PM »
Crespi Tulia GT with a Tornado 3800cc engine.
Driver, event, etc, unknown without further research.

Just a little bit of digging should reveal the answer .... (would you like to try, or let other puzzlers in?)

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Re: Q683
« Reply #17 on: August 30, 2010, 01:24:42 AM »
With a little bit of digging I discovered that this is a Crespi TC of 1967 and owned/driven by Nasif Estefano.
If this is not sufficient, please open it to others as I'm not at my computer again until later today.

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Re: Q683
« Reply #18 on: August 31, 2010, 05:10:41 PM »
That's good enough sir! Yes this is the ur-Crespi Torino as campaigned by Estfano, from which the others followed