Topic: Solved - NEH 2373: Michelotti Lancia Mizar - 1974

[Carnut]

What's this, by whom, from when and what's the basis car - for 1 point?

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[WayneB]

1974 Lancia Beta Mizar by Giovanni Michelotti

Based on a Lancia Beta 1800

[Carnut]

1974 Lancia Beta Mizar by Giovanni Michelotti

Based on a Lancia Beta 1800

Well, you seem to have found what I thought was a fairly obscure Italian one-off with ease...

[sixtee5cuda]

Looks most like an average, production-ready concept car until you open the doors...

[sixtee5cuda]

And a front view:

[Otto Puzzell]

Open 'er up.

[sixtee5cuda]

Pictures exist of the Michelotti Mizar with some slight differences from the images already posted here.

A rear view showing flat tail lights which do not wrap around the corners.  As shown in the above Open Hatch image, the tail lights may not have been functional.

[sixtee5cuda]

Another slight, strange difference is, the rose-colored show car has solid front door glass.  The silver car has a small black diagonal line, indicating what may be a small parallelogram window:

[Carnut]

I suspect someone has gone to the trouble of making the car road-legal by fitting working tail lights (they look like amended versions of Alfetta 1.6 lights to me, or perhaps ones made for a market other than Europe) and opening door windows...