Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[somewhatfoolish]

[Snipes]

I think I prefer the original;

I've never heard of a 507 before but Wikipedia says famous Hollywood owners include Fred Astaire, Elvis and Ursula Andrees.

[martc]

4 hours ago, Austat said:

1957 BMW 507 Coupé by Raymond Leowy:

 

Raymond 'Woolard' Baxter is not impressed with the colour of the 'water' Pierre is washing it with. Raymond thinks Pierre must have dipped the bucket into the harbour.

[Snipes]

Is that Raymond doing a Wollard 30 years before that was a thing?

Also, I've just realised it looks reminiscent of an early Corvette Stingray.

[somewhatfoolish]

8 hours ago, Sir Snipes said:

I think I prefer the original;

I've never heard of a 507 before but Wikipedia says famous Hollywood owners include Fred Astaire, Elvis and Ursula Andrees.

John Surtees had one too.

[Richard_FM]

11 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Yes a very gormless looking.

[martc]

On ‎3‎/‎2‎/‎2020 at 12:21 PM, Sir Snipes said:

Is that Raymond doing a Wollard 30 years before that was a thing?

Also, I've just realised it looks reminiscent of an early Corvette Stingray.

Quite a trend setter was old Raymond. But I think our Wollarding chum above is an imposter.

The real Raymond and chums.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

On 2/26/2020 at 11:45 PM, Austat said:

LMX 2300 HCS:

Austin Princess headlamps?

[barrett]

It predates the Princess by several years. BMW 2000 maybe?

[Snipes]

Head on view might make it a bit easier to determine. 

[bunglebus]

Saw one of these in France today. Most exciting!

 

 

Also several of these prowling Paris looking for illegal parked voitures

 

[barrett]

Since when did they start towing parked cars in Paris? Most people park illegally because the parking tickets are significantly less expensive than the car parks... France will be shit soon if they're not careful

[lesapandre]

On 3/2/2020 at 12:09 PM, martc said:

Raymond 'Woolard' Baxter is not impressed with the colour of the 'water' Pierre is washing it with. Raymond thinks Pierre must have dipped the bucket into the harbour.

That is Loewy himself on the right of the photo. His office designed all Rootes 50's cars from Minx to Humber - the most successful  probably being the Sunbeam Talbot 90.  It's possible it is his own car - he used to drive his own custom designs. 

He took his scalpel to the E-Type including shortening the wheelbase - a lot of this stuff was used as rolling adverts for his business and touting for consultancy and design work. Here:

http://www.carstyling.ru/en/entry/Jaguar_XKE_Coupe_1966_Raymond_Loewy/

A lot of his car stuff is flashy in a Palm Springs kind of way but nevertheless a prodigious talent.

Best design - the 1962 Studebaker Avanti.

[Richard_FM]

23 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

That is Loewy himself on the right of the photo. His office designed all Rootes 50's cars from Minx to Humber - the most successful  probably being the Sunbeam Talbot 90.  It's possible it is his own car - he used to drive his own custom designs. 

He took his scalpel to the E-Type including shortening the wheelbase - a lot of this stuff was used as rolling adverts for his business and touting for consultancy and design work. Here:

http://www.carstyling.ru/en/entry/Jaguar_XKE_Coupe_1966_Raymond_Loewy/

A lot of his car stuff is flashy in a Palm Springs kind of way but nevertheless a prodigious talent.

Best design - the 1962 Studebaker Avanti.

He designed a lot of models for studebaker which is why some of his earlier rootes models look like scaled down studebakers 

[lesapandre]

Yes. Less well known in the UK. He did all the Studebaker cars post-war to the mid-50's and is credited with introducing the 3-box design. His '54 saloons sold poorly, really too restrained for the US moving into a world of chrome excess so they moved design back in house and 'normalised' their designs.

The Jaguar E custom has a couple of features that turned up on the new XJ6 in 1968 including the signature much larger square grille snout and the crimp line around the top of the rear wings. Cool guy Mr Loewy.

[barrett]

Let's just take a moment to acknowledge that it was Bob Bourke (for Loewy Studios) who designed all those beautiful Studebakers. Bourke created perhaps the most beautiful American car ever built, the 1953 Studebaker coupés, and for decades never got any credit for them whatsoever.

Loewy was a great self-promotor whose talent lay more in spotting and hiring other talented designers, rather than being a talented designer himself. This is, after all, the man who is most famous for designing the Coca-Cola bottle - which he didn't, but he never failed to take the credit when it was offered. Loewy's 'own' cars, such as the E-type, BMW and Cadillac, show what he was capable of when it came to car design, and it simply wasn't a patch on the skills of Bourke and his team.

[FakeConcern]

I just saw this thing on Monky London (I know!)

Should also be on the Once seen Never Forgotten thread...

[barrett]

Wtf is that!?

[FakeConcern]

Apparently a toyota verossa

[Austat]

Opel Kadetts/Isuzu (Holden) Geminis were sold as Opel Isuzus in the USA:

 

 

[Austat]

I was aware of the Apache:

But I didn't realise that Authi built them as the Victoria in Spain:

[Datsuncog]

Remember the hitherto-unsuspected Suzuki Kizashi that cropped up a few pages back?

MrsDC managed to spot one in the wild this evening!

She wasn't aware of its oddball status on here; just that it looked kinda strange and had a peculiar name.

Turns out 'Kizashi' means 'great things to come' - though it can also translate as 'omen' or 'warning'.

Appropriate, maybe...

This may be the only example in NI, so I was ridiculously excited in a vicarious way.

[Snipes]

I quite fancy one of them, though the handful I see on AutoTrader etc were still a fair wack over a couple of grand.

[rantingYoof]

The Kizashi sounds like an almost perfect combination of smollish car, powerful engine, but then obviously it had to be given a CVT for the UK market, and I've not found a single review of it that speaks favourably of that decision.

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[Snipes]

On 3/4/2020 at 10:56 AM, lesapandre said:

He took his scalpel to the E-Type including shortening the wheelbase - a lot of this stuff was used as rolling adverts for his business and touting for consultancy and design work. Here:

http://www.carstyling.ru/en/entry/Jaguar_XKE_Coupe_1966_Raymond_Loewy/

A lot of his car stuff is flashy in a Palm Springs kind of way but nevertheless a prodigious talent.

Best design - the 1962 Studebaker Avanti.

That E Type looks awful.

[Aston Martin]

5 minutes ago, Sir Snipes said:

That E Type looks awful.

All E-Types look awful  

[egg]

rytecraft scootacar was new on me, apparently Jonny Smith had one...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rytecraft

Inevitably, Villiers engined at one stage.

[HMC]

^ IIRC one bearded chap drove one across America. As you do.

[Out Run]

3 hours ago, egg said:

rytecraft scootacar was new on me, apparently Jonny Smith had one...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rytecraft

Inevitably, Villiers engined at one stage.

Smith and Sniff.

I Googled the car, too.

[vulgalour]

https://forum.retro-rides.org/thread/212861/fiat-1300-familiare

The Fiat 1300 Familiare, a car I only know about because one popped up in a thread over on the blue forum.  Chap who owns it is in Finland, of all places.