Topic: Information Requests || What is this car ? thread

[727]

Need help with some trucks.
(DPRK)

[727]

Can anyone confirm if this is a FSO 125p Kombi ambulance? The wheelbase seems quite long.
Thanks

[barrett]

What are being built here? Lots of clues but I can't work it out.

[Romantic Technofreak]

Hi all,

in the past, I needed and got help here to identify vintage cars, as you can see in the matching section. This one here is troublesome for a couple of reasons. First, it is not vintage, but contemporary, so I only can hope having put the question into the right place. Second, it is not a passenger car. Third, it looks so unique that one might mean to expect an easy find by googling using terms like "africa swat car", what it is: a police SWAT vehicle, somewhere in an obviously English speaking African country, or maybe in Jamaica or another island with this population. But alas, all searching proved to be fruitless. On the other hand, it looks attractive, so richer people even may want to get one.

The last and worst trouble is: what is its type name? Can you help once more?

Thanks for every answer, and best regards,
RT

[pnegyesi]

There are literally dozens of manufacturers of such riot control vehicles. Can you specify the location?

[Romantic Technofreak]

No, sorry. Also "Badland Winches" lead to nowhere.

Anyway, does anybody know a good army vehicles recognition forum? Recent vehicles, nothing vintage?

Best regards,
RT

[Romantic Technofreak]

Just found it in Nigeria. But no further notice. Article authors think last about the needs of picture collectors

https://www.gettyimages.ie/detail/news-photo/nigerian-police-swat-personnel-members-sit-in-a-vehicle-news-photo/1127587505

Regards, RT

[Wendax]

I've found the solution and will PM it to you. But as this will do fine as a puzzle I will post it as well. 

[rickjames8]

This is a modified Puma GTV. The only real giveaway is the concave hood which is typical of all Nova/Sterling/Puma kit car variants. There have been about a dozen variants of this kit and most keep that distinctive hood shape. This one looks fairly customized, and I'd bet there is just the one. You can see more photos of it here, but in yellow. My guess is that it's the same car, but repainted or the image was color enhanced.
https://www.trussty.com/2021/10/once-upon-time-when-italians-made-kit.html

[kitaharo]

This is a modified Puma GTV. The only real giveaway is the concave hood which is typical of all Nova/Sterling/Puma kit car variants. There have been about a dozen variants of this kit and most keep that distinctive hood shape. This one looks fairly customized, and I'd bet there is just the one. You can see more photos of it here, but in yellow. My guess is that it's the same car, but repainted or the image was color enhanced.
https://www.trussty.com/2021/10/once-upon-time-when-italians-made-kit.html

Thanks a lot for the information !!!

[Romantic Technofreak]

Hi autopuzzles.com,

this vehicle again is a car and a military vehicle. To identify it, I may be here in the right place.

It is a US fighting buggy. The picture was made in Afghanistan. The vehicle to me looks much more attractive than the contemporarily used Polaris samples. But all googling fpr it remained without success.

If you can name it, please do so!

Thank you for every answer, and regards,
RT

[Romantic Technofreak]

I am a bit late but was able to identify it as Kawasaki LTATV-2 .

Thank you for watching.

Regards, RT

[JeffJue]

Let me post one then.

This one is featured on a web page as a Lotus Elan variation. Has anybody ever seen it before? What is it?

Looks more like a Nissan 350Z at the front, in my opinion... a bastard child of some sort, anyway...

Hi this is made by Protomotor who also made the Ps2 which became the Spirra/Oullim Spirra. Those are the only two pics of it and I had difficulty finding a name even way back when. But it is a Protomotors project

and seemimgly like magic this website just surfaced: https://brunch.co.kr/@vaporwarecar/49

[JeffJue]

Heres one that surfaced on Reddit. Looks homemade and I cant think of a single possibility
https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthiscar/comments/1efl32x/found_in_a_self_storage_lot/

[barrett]

Anyone know the Special in the background? It's not one that I can instantly ID...

[Trommel]

Any ideas on this? Isotta Fraschini I think, but with an unusual tourer/torpedo body:

[Oguerrerob]

This puzzle A#349 used to be in the Black Hole, now is missing. Anyway, I've found a its rear view, where is written something like "Goaly Ape". It was present at 1988 Essen Motor Show

[gte4289]

It seems this one should be obvious, but I've been struggling to connect it with anything I know. This aerodynamic three-wheeler was photographed in France circa 1938-39, and appeared in period magazines as simply "the car of the future" or something similar. The design resembles those of André Dubonnet, Paul Jaray, Karl Schlör, and others of the time. Is this car an actual mystery, or is the answer obvious and I'm simply suffering from a temporary brain malfunction?

[Wendax]

PM sent

[gte4289]

PM sent

Thank you! It turns out I had this listed in my database, but without a photo!