Author Topic: Information Requests || What is this car ? thread (Read 835206 times)

oko94 · « **Reply #1250 on:** December 25, 2018, 03:30:07 AM »

Quote from: Djetset on November 02, 2018, 08:37:52 AM

This unusual 1976 Alfa Romeo GTV with gullwing doors is shortly to be auctioned by Aguttes in France. They don't seem to know who converted the Alfa to gullwing doors, which I don't either, so I'm posting it here in case any fellow Puzzlers might know who created this strange one-off? Thanks..

According to an article in the latest issue of French AutoRetro magazine, it has been converted by a German Alfa Romeo collector, but his name remains undisclosed. Car is registered OF JA 65 H, in case it helps someone find where it comes from.

oko94 · « **Reply #1251 on:** December 25, 2018, 06:47:03 AM »

Quote from: Djetset on December 14, 2018, 09:05:00 AM

I'm not very knowledgable about motorhomes/campers, but intrigued by this Mercedes-Benz-based on recently seen in the UK that uses BMW 5-Series E39 headlamps.

Does anyone have any idea who made this camper please, and what it might be called? Thanks in advance.

Found it as a Eura Mobil 666 HB. I wish it were a proper point-worthy puzzle

Djetset · « **Reply #1252 on:** December 26, 2018, 09:25:27 AM »

Thank you Oko, that's a very useful discovery and much appreciated

ImpishGrin · « **Reply #1253 on:** December 26, 2018, 03:14:20 PM »

Hi,

I've seen this photo of 1967 Kabul a few times and every time I wonder what's the grey buggy-like car. At first I thought that it was an early Gurgel (Ipanema or 1200), but, although similar in overall shape, it doesn't look like one, especially at the front. I guess this is some kind of a fibreglass body on a Beetle chassis thingy, but I can't quite pinpoint its identity. The car looks to be an expedition vehicle (stickers on the body, two spare tires etc.), so it may be from a part of the world very far from Afghanistan.

Edit: Found it, it's an Apal Samtrack.

Carnut · « **Reply #1254 on:** December 31, 2018, 03:45:32 AM »

Well done!
Maybe you could do something with this one?!:

https://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/professional-autopuzzles/gruppenguess-what!-2-in-the-army-now/50/

Happy New Year!

Trommel · « **Reply #1255 on:** March 18, 2019, 04:27:58 PM »

Believe this is an electric vehicle of the type used on holiday resorts - sticker on the roof says “Resort Sport”), possibly a concept. Any ideas?

Wendax · « **Reply #1256 on:** March 18, 2019, 05:03:47 PM »

That car is a mystery even here at AutoPuzzles, except for Djetset of course: https://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/the-black-hole/djetset-500/

Djetset · « **Reply #1257 on:** March 18, 2019, 05:30:43 PM »

Quote from: Trommel on March 18, 2019, 04:27:58 PM

Believe this is an electric vehicle of the type used on holiday resorts - sticker on the roof says “Resort Sport”), possibly a concept. Any ideas?

Wow, that's quite a find! Well done.

When this car (called Fox) was first built in the mid-1990s, it wasn't electric, but rather powered by a petrol Nissan Micra on which it was based. This car has been a long-standing Puzzle in the Black Hole here, where to still remains today as I look for the name of its creators (which I have now misplaced, so proof will still be needed)

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Trommel · « **Reply #1258 on:** March 18, 2019, 05:38:56 PM »

Thanks, I knew it would have appeared here! I initially thought it might have been an IAD design, but it’s probably too amateurish.

Wendax · « **Reply #1259 on:** March 18, 2019, 05:50:05 PM »

The license plate FOX 1 belongs to a Porsche Cayenne Turbo S nowadays. Seems to be a different car...

kkarlsen · « **Reply #1260 on:** March 20, 2019, 06:40:30 AM »

Help Needed Identifying this car type?

WWI German Military Car

All info on this subject would be very much appreciated.

Thank you: Kent Karlsen

Carnut · « **Reply #1261 on:** March 20, 2019, 08:40:57 AM »

We have a couple of experts on military vehicles here - you could always sent them a PM (Personal Message):

grobmotorix
skut

One of them will be able to help I'm sure.

Wendax · « **Reply #1262 on:** April 20, 2019, 02:42:25 PM »

Quote from: Wendax on October 24, 2014, 03:57:14 AM

Does anybody know about the company or scientific society behind this badge?
( https://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/news-information-and-feedback/information-requests-what-is-this-car-thread/msg343407/#msg343407 )

GSM is the abbreviation for Grupul Sportiv Motor, a Romanian club whose president was Aurel Persu. The streamline silhouette is a Persu design, and the colours of the GSM logo are the Romanian colours.

Djetset · « **Reply #1263 on:** May 01, 2019, 07:27:17 AM »

I stumbled across this photo of a bespoke MG 1100 recently, but have no idea who modified it. It could be Radford, Hooper or one of many others, but I cannot find any proof. So, if any fellow puzzlers know who converted this MG ADO16 please, including Facel-Vega headlamps, this information will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. (Still unresolved).

Manwithnoname · « **Reply #1264 on:** June 24, 2019, 06:04:23 PM »

Hello everybody. First time posting on this site

For the past few days this car has been bugging me a lot and I can't figure out this at all.

It's from a 1974/75 documentary about the Soviet/Lithuanian rally driver Stasys Brundza. In one of the montages, this car was shown for a couple of seconds (participating in "Rallye Tour d'Europe" I presume?)

Source of the video (this car appears at 4:36): https://youtu.be/olDTESlEX9U

Any info about this would be very helpful!

Arunas · « **Reply #1265 on:** June 27, 2019, 09:15:50 AM »

The car has a very special rear end, but, unfortnately, it tells me nothing...

The movie is about Statys Brundza, so my best guess that it can be some kind of creation by VFTS. However, I very doubt that...

The number plate ПБ9053... It is either Perm Oblast or пробный = test/experimental??

Last question, where is the action? Most cars look to have Soviet number plates (even Alpine!?) so I cannot be sure if this is either Soviet Union event or "Tour D'Europe"..

Great mystery car! Maybe someone knows more?

D-type · « **Reply #1266 on:** June 27, 2019, 02:14:25 PM »

To start with the obvious: the "B" registration dates it as 1964. Which coachbuilders were in business then?

nicanary · « **Reply #1267 on:** June 27, 2019, 02:28:12 PM »

Quote from: Djetset on May 01, 2019, 07:27:17 AM

I stumbled across this photo of a bespoke MG 1100 recently, but have no idea who modified it. It could be Radford, Hooper or one of many others, but I cannot find any proof. So, if any fellow puzzlers know who converted this MG ADO16 please, including Facel-Vega headlamps, this information will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

I would have thought that Facel-Vega headlamp units would have been hard to come by, which makes me wonder whether it was done at Hersham & Walton Motors. I've just had a quick glance through my copy of Fred Hobbs' autobiography but unfortunately there's nothing mentioned.

llewod · « **Reply #1268 on:** August 27, 2019, 10:03:23 AM »

Does anyone knows anything about this car?

nicanary · « **Reply #1269 on:** September 05, 2019, 09:14:08 AM »

I was looking for new puzzle subjects today, and came across this. It's a "still" from a short film about the 1951 GP Sables d'Olonne. A rear view of the car reveals the race number 28 (or 29?) painted in that odd floral manner of French race officials of the time. Problem is, race #28 is allocated to the Ferrari 166F2 of Victor Polledry. All reference books insist that this is that car, unless of course I have misread the number.

It is always the possibility that it was a late entry or Polledry replaced his Ferrari with another car. I have perused the full entry list and it doesn't fit anything. The rear of the bodywork resembles the Delage and Delahaye race cars of the late 1930s but those wheels make me think it's something fairly low-powered. Simca? Wheelbase looks too long.

Any ideas?

nicanary · « **Reply #1270 on:** September 05, 2019, 02:58:10 PM »

I may have solved this myself. It looks an awful lot like Eugene Martin's BMW special - note from this image that the cockpit side could be taken away, just like in my mystery photo. Martin is not entered in the race, but car #22 is a BMW driven by Armand Philippe. Maybe he was loaned the car for this race. (The race number on the tail could conceivably be #22)

PS I've just found out that Philippe knew Martin as friends - they shared a Veritas in one race and a Ferrari 166 in another. Looks like I've solved my own problem.

tobytwirl · « **Reply #1271 on:** September 06, 2019, 07:37:51 PM »

Not sure I agree, but an alternative is hard to pin down. The problem is the dearth of photos of Eugene Martin's car, usually known as the BMW 328 special. The other one looks nothing like the one you have shown in your photo, yet ostensibly they are the same car, perhaps at different stages of development.The problem I see is that the unknown car has wheels much more typical of Simca engined cars such as Gordinis. The Martin photos show either steel wheels or larger wires and to me looks bigger.

The only other entered cars with a number in the 20s were Meteor - BMWs, a Simca and a Ferrari. It is clearly not a Ferrari - you can see a 166 circulating in the film. Jean Thepenier's Simca 1500 was almost certainly an ex-works Gordini that he bought that year. Did he have it rebodied? He was number 26.

Number 20 was Marcel Balsa's car, labelled a Meteor BMW. By this time his own Balsa car was powered by Veritas Meteor engine, but again it suffers from lack of photos except in its earlier form. However a later photo of this car fitted with its V8 engine has a distinctly similar nose to the unknown car.

At one point in the film you can see the back of the unknown car. It has a long tapering headrest fairing, and is very left hand drive - not a central seat. That would tend to rule out a Gordini, (but early Veritas Meteors were lhd.) It would have ruled out the Balsa except for the fact that I have a photo of a lhd car labelled Balsa which looks very like it.........but I suspect its accuracy. Ironically it could be Eugene Martins car!!!!
Still with me? I don't think it is any of these cars, I think it is more likely to be a late entry, small engined car as yet unknown.

tobytwirl · « **Reply #1272 on:** September 06, 2019, 07:41:35 PM »

Seem to have lost some photos

tobytwirl · « **Reply #1273 on:** September 06, 2019, 07:47:12 PM »

and again

tobytwirl · « **Reply #1274 on:** September 06, 2019, 07:55:03 PM »

On reflection this does look the same as my "Balsa but is it" photo

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