Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[Austat]

1963-1966 Fiat-Ghia 1500 GT:

[Richard_FM]

8 hours ago, Austat said:

Very much like Tom Tjaarda's first design for Ghia, the '59 Selene I concept.

Reminds me of this Renault concept:

 

[Austat]

1967 Rover TCZ (Zagato) concept:

[brownnova]

Stretched Ssangyong Chairman as seen on Insta... 

WANT!!! 

[worley]

On 5/25/2020 at 7:59 AM, Lord Sterling said:

PGO Cevennes; a car that looks like the love child of a Porsche 365 and a Daihatsu Copen.

Just as expensive but looks like a kit car and from a manufacturer very few people, if anyone has ever heard of.

Looks like a fun car.  Love the styling!

[Dick Cheeseburger]

What's this?

 

[Aston Martin]

I mean this is the greatest thing I've ever seen. Not sure how I'd change gear though.

[Austat]

1970 AMC Hornet, I guess I'm used to seeing that front end on the Gremlin rather than on a sedan:

[chaseracer]

4 hours ago, Dick Van Diesel said:

What's this?

 

Dunno, but I think there's Triumph Herald oily bits under there...

[MrSteve]

10 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

Dunno, but I think there's Triumph Herald oily bits under there...

Agree about those hub caps- very Triumph 2000/Vitesse. Has a Frua/Glas look to it?

[Dick Cheeseburger]

26 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

Dunno, but I think there's Triumph Herald oily bits under there...

 

10 minutes ago, MrSteve said:

Agree about those hub caps- very Triumph 2000/Vitesse. Has a Frua/Glas look to it?

I see what you mean about shape of the centre of the hubcaps. A mate is starting  to regularly post obsure motors as a 'guess what it is' effort on anti-social media. Thought it would be interesting to add to few to this thread!

And no, I don't actually know what it is...

[Peter C]

Two door Fiat Tempra anyone?

[bunglebus]

7 hours ago, Dick Van Diesel said:

What's this?

 

It looks like a BMW CSL had sex with an NSU RO80

[Snipes]

I was thinking Opel, but I can't really say why. 

Headlights do look Neu Klasse(sp?) and c-pillar kinda looks like a Hoffman link?

[Richard_FM]

2 hours ago, Peter C said:

Two door Fiat Tempra anyone?

Was it made by one of Fiat’s Latin American subsidiaries?  They seemed to like offering different body styles.

[Peter C]

3 minutes ago, Richard_FM said:

Was it made by one of Fiat’s Latin American subsidiaries?  They seemed to like offering different body styles.

Don’t know. But they also made a Turbo version.

[martc]

10 hours ago, Dick Van Diesel said:

What's this?

 

I thought it had the look of some of the rather nice Japanese cars from the 60's. The Japanese factories where very interested in European and especially Italian designs at the time. Could it be by Michelotti he did work for Hino and of course designed the Herald. There's also the look of an Isuzu about it. Also, is that a Pininfarina script behind the front wheel?

But it's LHD I would expect if it was Japanese (or based on a Herald) it would be RHD. Unless it's been printed the wrong way round...

[Volksy]

I'd have a guess that it's based on a '60s Opel Rekord coupe. The hubcaps look about right and the rear quarter panels look very similar. 

However the kink in the c pillar may suggest a BMW connection? 

[Yoss]

This is a Triumph Fury prototype which is obviously just a Spitfire with a new front but it is a similar front isn't it? 

[Yoss]

 @Dick Van Diesel

 

1964 Vittesse restyling proposal by Michelotti. Thanks to Canley Classics whose website I stole these from. 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

12 minutes ago, Yoss said:

 @Dick Van Diesel

 

1964 Vittesse restyling proposal by Michelotti. Thanks to Canley Classics whose website I stole these from. 

Amazing! How on earth did you find that?!

[Volksy]

21 minutes ago, Yoss said:

 @Dick Van Diesel

 

1964 Vittesse restyling proposal by Michelotti. Thanks to Canley Classics whose website I stole these from. 

Wow... Another missed opportunity! 

[Yoss]

I knew I'd seen it somewhere, probably the Club Triumph magazine. So started googling Triumph prototypes that I could remember off the top of my head. This brought me to Canley Classics site which has some excellent archive materiel on it and voilà. 

See also the TRX... 

... based on the old Bergerac type Roadster. 

And the Italia... 

...which is a TR3 underneath but you can see the TR4 coming through. 

[Yoss]

9 minutes ago, Volksy said:

Wow... Another missed opportunity! 

Yes, if only they'd had the money. Story of the British car industry. 

[Volksy]

What year was it? As it does look like BMW may have been influenced for the CS?

 

 

 

[myglaren]

[LightBulbFun]

twas smashing the crap out of the DVLA/my special tool searching through AC Acedes Model 57 chassis numbers as you do

when this popped up

Steam! on an 07 plate what the actual...

 

little bit of googling later shows it to be one of these

working (and road registered!) scale model of a traction engine https://flic.kr/p/29v4pU6

 

its so amusing/weird to think of/see a steam propelled vehicle on modern plates LOL (kinda surprised they where given modern plates id of half expected such a thing to end up on a Q plate)

how do you even go about registering such a vehicle I wonder...

[vulgalour]

Courtesy of the eBay thread, the Lloyd 650.

[Snipes]

5 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

twas smashing the crap out of the DVLA/my special tool searching through AC Acedes Model 57 chassis numbers as you do

when this popped up

Steam! on an 07 plate what the actual...

 

little bit of googling later shows it to be one of these

working (and road registered!) scale model of a traction engine https://flic.kr/p/29v4pU6

 

its so amusing/weird to think of/see a steam propelled vehicle on modern plates LOL (kinda surprised they where given modern plates id of half expected such a thing to end up on a Q plate)

how do you even go about registering such a vehicle I wonder...

As you're probably aware Q is simply when the age of the vehicle can't be properly determined. I'd think type approval would be a much bigger issue, but I'm assuming that little engine is subject to the same standards as any other new vehicle?

[Yoss]

8 hours ago, Volksy said:

What year was it? As it does look like BMW may have been influenced for the CS?

 

 

 

The Vittesse was 1964, the Italia apparently (according to Wikipedia) they built 330 of them between '59 and '63. They were both Michelotti designs though it seems the Italia was built by Vignale. I think even that has shades of BMW CSL in the cab area.