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Wendax · « **Reply #1400 on:** October 15, 2021, 10:03:56 AM »

With its V-shaped flat windshields and the sliding windows in the doors it looks like a home-built body to me.

nicanary · « **Reply #1401 on:** October 15, 2021, 10:12:29 AM »

Thanks. I agree with you, unless it's a temporary body fitted to a prototype chassis. It has an odd protruding radiator grille similar to an Austin of the period. Maybe the grille came from a scrapyard!

Wendax · « **Reply #1402 on:** October 15, 2021, 11:25:46 AM »

I guess a prototype wouldn't have such a huge roof rack.

727 · « **Reply #1403 on:** November 20, 2021, 02:08:05 AM »

This alleged 'North Korean electric car' appeared in “Korea” magazine, January 1959. We suspect it's simply a rebadging/modification of a foreign car, but if so, what is it?

nicanary · « **Reply #1404 on:** November 20, 2021, 05:22:13 AM »

That's a Hillman Minx VIII.

Carnut · « **Reply #1405 on:** November 20, 2021, 07:10:24 AM »

Or more likely it's an Isuzu Minx PH11 from 1954, based on the Hillman Minx Mk VII.
Isuzu just used the British brochures for their own, hence the English family in the car!
The Isuzu Minx PH12 of 1955 was based on the Mk VIII Minx and had vertical bars for the grille with just one horizontal bar in the middle.

727 · « **Reply #1406 on:** November 20, 2021, 09:16:52 AM »

Thank you both very much. The Isuzu model seems more plausible as per the previous Japanese occupation of Korea.

727 · « **Reply #1407 on:** November 20, 2021, 09:32:21 AM »

Here's another challenge, a 3-wheeler supposedly built in North Korea:

Oguerrerob · « **Reply #1408 on:** November 20, 2021, 11:08:52 AM »

Similar to 1954 Mitsubishi Mizushima

JT03 · « **Reply #1409 on:** November 25, 2021, 02:05:41 PM »

Hey all,

I would say I'm pretty good at cars but I'm just not sure what car this is. (Croatia) My guesses are a Fiat Argenta, Toyota Crown Super Saloon or Nissan Cedric?

Thanks!

Wendax · « **Reply #1410 on:** November 25, 2021, 03:32:43 PM »

It should be a Fiat Argenta. As I understand your picture was taken in Croatia, then it is probably the license-built Argenta by Zastava.

neilshouse · « **Reply #1411 on:** December 05, 2021, 03:39:11 AM »

Regarding the Britischer Eigenbau

It reminds me of this, I don't know who built it but it's said to be based on an Austin A40 Sports

nicanary · « **Reply #1412 on:** December 23, 2021, 02:49:16 PM »

This car has appeared on another website. Image taken in Moscow in the 1990s. I reckon it's a homebuilt custom on a pre-war chassis.

Wendax · « **Reply #1413 on:** December 23, 2021, 05:49:48 PM »

A 1939 Buick with some ZIM 12 parts (grill, indicators) as well as a ZIS 110 bumper I'd say.

nicanary · « **Reply #1414 on:** December 24, 2021, 04:45:16 AM »

Thanks. The other website had come to a similar conclusion. The angle of the camera and foreshortening had made me think the car waa smaller.

D-type · « **Reply #1415 on:** December 29, 2021, 07:52:27 AM »

I know this is a case of shutting the stable door long long after the horse is over the horizon, but I still feel this would be better as another bulletin board with one thread per car. Certainly a "What is this - I don't know?" post/thread should not be on a puzzle board.