Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[lesapandre]

Citroen Traction Avant re-bodied by Beutler. Not much of the original left by the look of it. Imagine if Citroen's overall design had gone in this direction instead of creating the DS.

[lesapandre]

Well you might have ended up here. This is by Frenay for de Gaulle. A presidential car. He swapped to DS enlarged by Chapron later on.

[lesapandre]

And what if the DS had a Detroit-style annual style refresh. This? They are actually aftermarket add-ons.

[lesapandre]

Very odd...but everybody was  into fins at the time...

[meggersdog]

14 hours ago, shedenvy said:

This should really be in the mistery watizit thread but today I saw this:

 

 

The front end is a Piaggio Typhoon and obvs back end is a wheelchair ramp. Guessing it's an air cooled 125cc.

Yep 125cc.It's called a Nippi , used to see a few at BCA motorcycle auctions a few years ago.

 

[lesapandre]

A couple of later Presidential limos. Bottom one an SM. Both may be by Chapron - I think so.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

10 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Renault 5 by Alpine. I saw the hatch version whilst away in France in August. This roof conversation is probably by them too. Not bad looking - by sloping the rollover they have given it some style. Must be rare - I'd never seen an Alpine 5 before. Not my photo.

 I thought that was what the home market got when we got the 5 Gordini, and later Alpine Turbo/ Gordini Turbo. Probably because in the UK we still associated Alpine with Sunbeam.

[Yoss]

I saw this yesterday. It confused me a bit. 

 

It's an Opel Ranger. 

[Sir Snipes]

Looks like it could be a Manta A with a Magnum front end. 

[bunglebus]

4X4!

 

20190830_192146 by RS, on Flickr

20190830_192159 by RS, on Flickr

20190830_192136 by RS, on Flickr

[lesapandre]

I would have said that was done for some European fire service or utility. But RHD? Super vehicle tho. What's it used for now?

[bunglebus]

Was at Santa Pod so I guess it tows a race car

[anonymous user]

On 9/1/2019 at 10:45 AM, meggersdog said:

Yep 125cc.It's called a Nippi , used to see a few at BCA motorcycle auctions a few years ago.

 

There was one on Facebook marketplace up the road from me this week, unfortunately too wide to go through my cellar door or I would have bought it for going up the shop while sat in an armchair .

[quicksilver]

8 hours ago, lesapandre said:

I would have said that was done for some European fire service or utility. But RHD? Super vehicle tho. What's it used for now?

It was new to Greater Manchester Fire Brigade, they had a few of them

[martc]

1 hour ago, quicksilver said:

It was new to Greater Manchester Fire Brigade, they had a few of them

Used by their inshore rescue team (very inshore judging by Manchester's location miles from the sea).*

* or perhaps its for the canals?

[egg]

OK, not cars, but motorcycles...

Thanks to Facebook I now know Villiers engines were made in France under licence by Monet-Goyon (motorcycle company I don't know, went bust in '59).

[Supernaut]

On the topic of 4x4 vans, I went for a walk earlier and noticed a Spanish registered Hyundai 4x4 van of some sort parked up nearby.

 

It was debadged, so I did a search for "Hyundai 4x4 Van" and found the Starex 4x4.

[Aston Martin]

On 9/1/2019 at 10:45 AM, meggersdog said:

Yep 125cc.It's called a Nippi , used to see a few at BCA motorcycle auctions a few years ago.

 

Just seen a black one in Bradford. Driven by a young lass. She seemed happy.

[GeordieInExile]

On 9/2/2019 at 9:32 AM, bunglebus said:

4X4!

 

20190830_192146 by RS, on Flickr

20190830_192159 by RS, on Flickr

20190830_192136 by RS, on Flickr

M reg feels late for these, I thought they were discontinued in 1992?!

[Yoss]

Never seen a Visa with a boot before though I know it was quite common to do booted versions of hatchbacks in Europe that we didn't get here. 

[barrett]

That one's a photoshop. Not sure if Citroen ever did prototype a Visa 'loon, but it would probably have sold well enough in the Pug 204 bracket. Then again, Renault never bothered with the 7 in France, so maybe the small saloon market was drying up by that stage?

Anyway, here's a pretty amazing thing. One-off '62 wagon built by FLM Panelcraft in Britain for Stengel coachwork in California. Amazingly, it survives. Totally new one on me and one of the colest cars I've seen for a while

[lesapandre]

Lincoln Continental base?

[lesapandre]

Renault 7 Alpine Turbo...

[lesapandre]

Rolls Shooting Brake - not sure if this is real or photoshopped? I feel it's the latter but not sure.  [edit: yes it looks like a photoshopped image]

[lesapandre]

Various Anadol. Not seen the estate car before.

[lesapandre]

Bilenkin as in... blinkin' hell. Based on a BMW apparently.

[lesapandre]

Clenet...I and II.

[lesapandre]

Volvo - Sport.

[lesapandre]

Dowsetts Comet.

[egg]

Trilec Electric scooter

https://www.britishpathe.com/video/new-form-of-transport-the-trilec/query/trilec