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Solved - NEH 3346: Vauxhall Vettura prototype - 1965
« on: March 27, 2014, 08:48:10 AM »
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Re: NEH 3346
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2014, 05:27:09 AM »
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Re: NEH 3346
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2014, 12:23:05 PM »
Must be a Vauxhall. A prototype?

Answering my own question: Vauxhall Vettura prototype ca 1965
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Re: NEH 3346
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2014, 04:03:24 AM »
Must be a Vauxhall. A prototype?

Answering my own question: Vauxhall Vettura prototype ca 1965

That's right.
The future face of Vauxhall is there to see way back in 1965, 8 years before the original droop-snoot Firenza first appeared.
Here's a picture of it with its 1965 registration, which is actually only a handful of digits away from the publicity photos of the new Vauxhall Cresta PC just announced and on which this one-off prototype was based; the car was broken up without ever being seen publicly:

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Re: Solved - NEH 3346: Vauxhall Vettura prototype - 1965
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2014, 04:15:49 AM »
Full size with a member of the oft-featured Vauxhall typing team; a larger shot of the puzzle pic; a pic with Aubrey Cohring, who lead the project at Vauxhall.     
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