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targhediferro · « **on:** July 01, 2016, 07:05:28 PM »

I don't know which car is this....so I need a proof to give you a point.

Wendax · « **Reply #1 on:** July 02, 2016, 02:00:45 AM »

Picture resized

targhediferro · « **Reply #2 on:** July 02, 2016, 07:37:10 AM »

Thank you...I got it with phone camera and so I was not able to resize it!

nicanary · « **Reply #3 on:** July 02, 2016, 07:41:15 AM »

Quote from: targhediferro on July 02, 2016, 07:37:10 AM

Thank you...I got it with phone camera and so I was not able to resize it!

Phone cameras were huge in those days. You needed a man-servant to carry it round for you and it took an hour to set up. You did well to get the shot taken.

D-type · « **Reply #4 on:** July 04, 2016, 03:34:37 PM »

Could it be one of the Indian-built Fiat 1100s?

thorax · « **Reply #5 on:** July 04, 2016, 05:46:34 PM »

Quote from: D-type on July 04, 2016, 03:34:37 PM

Could it be one of the Indian-built Fiat 1100s?

mmm..: I think that indian cars were never sold in Italy in the sixties

D-type · « **Reply #6 on:** July 05, 2016, 03:38:50 PM »

So, the photo was taken in Italy.

targhediferro · « **Reply #7 on:** July 05, 2016, 06:21:15 PM »

Yes, the picture is the foreground of a 1966 advertising of the Innocenti IM 3. I was looking at this leaf, when I noticed this strange car; I've zoomed the photo to the maximum of my scanner...and this is what I obtained. The plate number look like to be MI 75xxx, so the car should be from 1963-4.

frederick59 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 05, 2016, 06:36:25 PM »

Fiat 1500?

richard cuyler · « **Reply #9 on:** July 06, 2016, 07:45:53 AM »

Is it an Italian coachbuilder's special on a Fiat 1800/2300 base?

targhediferro · « **Reply #10 on:** July 08, 2016, 02:01:08 AM »

As I told...I don't know which car is this...so I cannot answer your questions!

targhediferro · « **Reply #11 on:** July 23, 2016, 09:27:41 AM »

targhediferro · « **Reply #12 on:** September 16, 2016, 06:13:11 AM »

thorax · « **Reply #13 on:** January 14, 2020, 04:28:39 AM »

I've found the advertise: the mystery car seems to have different bumpers

gte4289 · « **Reply #14 on:** January 14, 2020, 04:39:57 AM »

Quote from: thorax on January 14, 2020, 04:28:39 AM

I've found the advertise: the mystery car seems to have different bumpers

The bumper overrider appears to have been either edited in or edited out in different versions of the same ad:

thorax · « **Reply #15 on:** January 14, 2020, 05:49:42 AM »

Strange thing: maybe an Innocenti prototype?

D-type · « **Reply #16 on:** January 16, 2020, 11:48:25 AM »

Does the windscreen provide a clue? Many amateur and professional coachbuilders used proprietary glass.

Carnut · « **Reply #17 on:** January 16, 2020, 01:27:19 PM »

Is it actually a real car?
It might be something like a Citroen Ami 6 that has been retouched (it's from the days before photoshop!) to look anonymous to avoid giving Citroen a free advert?
Note the lack of direction indicators and parking lights.
I don't think you'll ever be able to track down this car because it's a figment of someone's imagination!

thorax · « **Reply #18 on:** January 16, 2020, 01:46:38 PM »

It's a Lancia Flavia retouched

gte4289 · « **Reply #19 on:** July 18, 2023, 11:49:14 AM »

Quote from: Carnut on January 16, 2020, 01:27:19 PM

It might be something like a Citroen Ami 6 that has been retouched (it's from the days before photoshop!) to look anonymous to avoid giving Citroen a free advert?

Quote from: thorax on January 16, 2020, 01:46:38 PM

It's a Lancia Flavia retouched

I agree!

Carnut · « **Reply #20 on:** July 18, 2023, 04:50:27 PM »

It's very similar to the Lancia but the bonnet slopes down more, which would have been quite difficult to do with the tools available at that time (see the second picture below to note that).

Oddly, they seem to have had 2 completely different goes at retouching it!

gte4289 · « **Reply #21 on:** July 18, 2023, 04:59:19 PM »

Quote from: Carnut on July 18, 2023, 04:50:27 PM

It's very similar to the Lancia but the bonnet slopes down more...

I'm fairly certain that's just a visual effect caused by having altered the nose. Notice how there's no change in the curvature of the chrome spear running down the middle of the bonnet. Also, notice how the exaggerated slope only appears in your second photo and not the first. The first photo more closely resembles the Flavia. Somebody probably took note of this, and so further changes were made to alter the bonnet line, shrink and cover the headlights, completely remove the bumper overriders, etc.

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