Author Topic: Solved TGF-431: RAF 978 Spriditis, Latvia 1960 (Read 16873 times)

targhediferro · « **on:** October 30, 2014, 05:50:32 AM »

Can you identify this beautiful little bus? An easy point I suppose.

richard cuyler · « **Reply #1 on:** October 30, 2014, 09:54:55 AM »

German?

targhediferro · « **Reply #2 on:** October 30, 2014, 10:10:31 AM »

Not German.

wingroad · « **Reply #3 on:** October 30, 2014, 04:58:37 PM »

Japanese?

targhediferro · « **Reply #4 on:** October 30, 2014, 05:52:56 PM »

Not japanese.

targhediferro · « **Reply #5 on:** November 10, 2014, 06:49:48 AM »

Up....If there will be no further answers in Expert's section in the next 24 hours, I'll move it to Pro's.

richard cuyler · « **Reply #6 on:** November 10, 2014, 07:20:41 AM »

Is it an outdated Ford model which was built in, say, a South American country? There are definitely lots of styling markers of the Taunus FK1250 van in the design.

kwgibbs · « **Reply #7 on:** November 10, 2014, 09:01:15 AM »

Skoda?

targhediferro · « **Reply #8 on:** November 10, 2014, 04:41:37 PM »

The styling is actually Taunus-lookalike, but this van is not a Ford built in South America or elsewhere.
And it's neither a Skoda.

richard cuyler · « **Reply #9 on:** November 11, 2014, 07:39:33 AM »

Mmm. Styling copy, eh? Chinese?

targhediferro · « **Reply #10 on:** November 11, 2014, 01:54:08 PM »

Not Chinese.

luisps · « **Reply #11 on:** November 12, 2014, 02:53:36 AM »

Except the, maybe modified, front looks a Romeo 2º minibus built in Spain under Alfa Romeo license during the '60s.

targhediferro · « **Reply #12 on:** November 12, 2014, 04:44:19 AM »

Not a Romeo, neither Alfa Romeo nor Fasa.

luisps · « **Reply #13 on:** November 12, 2014, 06:11:22 AM »

Ok, but FASA was the producer of Renault in Spain still in operation but under Renault Automóviles brand name, the company making Romeo vans was FADISA, that become absorbed by EBRO-Motor Ibérica, that afterwards become part of NISSAN. Just to keep correctly informed the followers of the game...

targhediferro · « **Reply #14 on:** November 12, 2014, 03:49:21 PM »

Of course you're right, I confused the names.

Kytsyk · « **Reply #15 on:** November 14, 2014, 03:04:20 PM »

Soviet RAF-978 Spriditis.

targhediferro · « **Reply #16 on:** November 14, 2014, 04:34:23 PM »

Quote from: Kytsyk on November 14, 2014, 03:04:20 PM

Soviet RAF-978 Spriditis.

That's right...you got the correct answer; actually RAF is not a Soviet marque, but a Latvian one.

Wendax · « **Reply #17 on:** November 14, 2014, 04:55:28 PM »

Latvia was part of the Soviet Union back then.

pnegyesi · « **Reply #18 on:** October 07, 2018, 12:37:35 PM »

Please ID this microbus for a point - brand and model are required

Brock05 · « **Reply #19 on:** October 07, 2018, 02:29:18 PM »

RAF 977 derivative?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #20 on:** October 07, 2018, 03:59:47 PM »

I just say, it is from RAF. Locked for you

Brock05 · « **Reply #21 on:** October 07, 2018, 04:06:23 PM »

RAF 978 Spriditis?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #22 on:** October 08, 2018, 01:01:22 PM »

Congrats, another point to you.

Shown at the 1960 Geneva Autoshow

Wendax · « **Reply #23 on:** October 08, 2018, 03:29:19 PM »

I had a slightly different version of the Spiriditis lined up as a puzzle, too.

pnegyesi · « **Reply #24 on:** October 08, 2018, 03:56:15 PM »

yeah, that's the RAF 08 Spiridits from 1958

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Author Topic: Solved TGF-431: RAF 978 Spriditis, Latvia 1960 (Read 16873 times)