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Solved - NEH 2040: Mikrus MR-300 Cabriolet - 1958/9
« on: August 27, 2012, 02:16:35 PM »
Identify this car and from when it dates, for 1 point:

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Re: NEH 2040
« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2012, 05:28:38 PM »
Autobianchi Bianchina?

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Re: NEH 2040
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2012, 07:47:17 AM »
Autobianchi Bianchina?

Not one of those...
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Re: NEH 2040
« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2012, 01:38:55 AM »
Mikrus?

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Re: NEH 2040
« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2012, 06:17:26 AM »
Mikrus?

Yes, that's what it is.
Can you fill in a few more details and answer the other part of the question so I can give you your point and move this to Solved?
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Re: NEH 2040
« Reply #5 on: August 29, 2012, 02:51:30 PM »
Is it Mikrus MR-300 Cabrio 1958 ?

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Re: NEH 2040
« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2012, 05:17:53 AM »
That's what it is, yes.  Well done.

My puzzle picture seems to be a photo-shopped saloon (or perhaps the pick-up), but I'm not sure why they bothered as there are pictures of the cabriolet available (I believe they made 2), a selection of which I've shown below:

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Re: NEH 2040
« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2012, 07:45:01 AM »
That's what it is, yes.  Well done.

My puzzle picture seems to be a photo-shopped saloon (or perhaps the pick-up), but I'm not sure why they bothered as there are pictures of the cabriolet available (I believe they made 2), a selection of which I've shown below:



Thanks! I remember coming across it on the net, while looking for some Goggomobil TS300 engine pictures (my dad has a TS300, but has the "african face mask" engine cover all bolted on), and when I saw the Mikrus thought it was a goggo prototype! I showed my dad, and he told me someone he knew had one, and apparently there pieces of ****, very poorly made! It's a shame, because they look a lot nicer than Goggo's to me!

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Re: NEH 2040
« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2012, 02:15:28 PM »
That's what it is, yes.  Well done.

My puzzle picture seems to be a photo-shopped saloon (or perhaps the pick-up), but I'm not sure why they bothered as there are pictures of the cabriolet available (I believe they made 2), a selection of which I've shown below:



The puzzle photo is definitely a photo-hack of a 4-door sedan (saloon.)

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Re: NEH 2040
« Reply #9 on: August 30, 2012, 06:26:23 PM »
The puzzle photo is definitely a photo-hack of a 4-door sedan (saloon.)

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Don't think they made any 4-door versions, so it must be the 2-door or the pick-up.
Looking at it, the doors on my photo-shopped pic are just about exactly the same as the doors on the real cabriolet..  So it's quite convincing.
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Re: NEH 2040
« Reply #10 on: August 30, 2012, 07:53:11 PM »
The puzzle photo is definitely a photo-hack of a 4-door sedan (saloon.)

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Don't think they made any 4-door versions, so it must be the 2-door or the pick-up.
Looking at it, the doors on my photo-shopped pic are just about exactly the same as the doors on the real cabriolet..  So it's quite convincing.

Huh!  You're right.  What I though was a 4-door was just a lousy photo.   :lmao:

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