Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[barrett]

Well, doesn't happen very often, but today I learned about a car I've never seen before. The Wood & Picket MGB. Interesting!

[D.E]

Another obscure homebuilt thingy! Found in the March 1969 issue of Der Deutsche Strassenverkehr, an Eastern German magazine.

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, barrett said:

Well, doesn't happen very often, but today I learned about a car I've never seen before. The Wood & Picket MGB. Interesting!

Those rear lights look familiar. W & P had some great ideas!

[bunglebus]

Mini Beach Car

 

[Leyland Worldmaster]

Triumph Italia! 😍😍😍🤩🤩🤩😍😍😍

https://www.autocar.co.uk/slideshow/famous-british-cars-wore-different-badges-abroad-0#15

[Remspoor]

9 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Mini Beach Car

 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRMQ-ShmnWOZHTm-Ig6EewQuzJBjp51lc

 

[Remspoor]

2 hours ago, Leyland Worldmaster said:

Triumph Italia! 😍😍😍🤩🤩🤩😍😍😍

https://www.autocar.co.uk/slideshow/famous-british-cars-wore-different-badges-abroad-0#15

that article is missing a raft of examples. Like.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automóviles_de_Turismo_Hispano_Ingleses

 

[Remspoor]

12 hours ago, barrett said:

Well, doesn't happen very often, but today I learned about a car I've never seen before. The Wood & Picket MGB. Interesting!

After your post I  naturally went looking as i had never heard about this.

Results show one predominately thing. A Guy in Madrid is asking about this one car.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=81&t=1848508

The following questions  if the car is a W&P.

https://www.mgexp.com/forum/mgb-and-gt-forum.1/wood-and-pickett-mgb-gt.4279780/

This conversation, from the same forum says that University Motors done a similar cock up with the rectangle headlights.

https://www.mgexp.com/forum/mgc-forum.48/gt-with-rectangular-headlights.2340490/

[chaseracer]

On 18/12/2021 at 20:54, Remspoor said:

Are these true? A Volvo looking like a US Chevrolet Chevette.

There a number of differences.

It looks OK in the metal.  @Inspector Morose and I saw the blue one when we raided the Volvo museum in Gothenburg in 2017.

[Metal Guru]

2 hours ago, Remspoor said:

After your post I  naturally went looking as i had never heard about this.

Results show one predominately thing. A Guy in Madrid is asking about this one car.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=81&t=1848508

The following questions  if the car is a W&P.

https://www.mgexp.com/forum/mgb-and-gt-forum.1/wood-and-pickett-mgb-gt.4279780/

This conversation, from the same forum says that University Motors done a similar cock up with the rectangle headlights.

https://www.mgexp.com/forum/mgc-forum.48/gt-with-rectangular-headlights.2340490/

It does look a bit like you went to the scrap yard for a pair of headlights and they didn’t have the correct ones, so you picked something at random.

[Remspoor]

10 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

It does look a bit like you went to the scrap yard for a pair of headlights and they didn’t have the correct ones, so you picked something at random.

Me? 😕

[Metal Guru]

2 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Me? 😕

No I meant you in a general way as in someone / anyone sense, rather than talking directly to YOU. Clear?

[Remspoor]

Just now, Metal Guru said:

No I meant you in a general way as in someone / anyone sense, rather than talking directly to YOU. Clear?

ok🙂

[bunglebus]

14 hours ago, Remspoor said:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRMQ-ShmnWOZHTm-Ig6EewQuzJBjp51lc

 

Yep that's where I found out about it

[Austat]

Bulgaralpine, Alpines built in Bulgaria by "Bulgarrenault": 

 

[17-Coffees]

6 hours ago, Austat said:

Bulgaralpine, Alpines built in Bulgaria by "Bulgarrenault": 

 

Woh! Thats cool! 
I knew that the  A108 was made & sold in Brazil as the Willys Interlagos Berlinette, and could even get it as a convertible...

Wander if there's any other Alpine's  from around the world? 

 

 

[tul66]

On 12/20/2021 at 10:47 PM, High Jetter said:

Those rear lights look familiar. W & P had some great ideas!

Looks like Vanden Plas Princess lights to me.

 

[bunglebus]

Suzuki LJ20. Never knew these came with a 360cc two stroke!

[bunglebus]

And finding that ^ lead me to this, the Hopestar ON360

It seems Suzuki didn't have a lot of knowledge of how to build a 4x4, so bought out a company that did and rebodied/re-engined theirs!

[chaseracer]

On 23/12/2021 at 09:13, tul66 said:

Looks like Vanden Plas Princess lights to me.

 

They are indeed.

[Remspoor]

Everyone knows of the Mazda 323, right.

Did you know they called them Allegros in Colombia?

https://listado.mercadolibre.com.co/mazda-allegro

[AndaBoss]

I didn't know there was a 5 door Austin Metro until right now

An Introduction to my *NEW CAR* - YouTube

 

 

[horriblemercedes]

36 minutes ago, AndaBoss said:

I didn't know there was a 5 door Austin Metro until right now

An Introduction to my *NEW CAR* - YouTube

 

 

Really? They were everywhere. I must have known a dozen people who had them over the years

[High Jetter]

Often the posher* versions were 5-dr only. Think they weren't as popular as the 3-dr.

[Wack]

Just having a look through some slides 

Any idea what this car is , the slide is dated 1961 Montreux 

[D.E]

19 minutes ago, Wack said:

Just having a look through some slides 

Any idea what this car is , the slide is dated 1961 Montreux 

1960 Chrysler Windsor.

[Wack]

49 minutes ago, D.E said:

1960 Chrysler Windsor.

That's definitely a car I'd never heard of 

[sheffcortinacentre]

Mate of mine has one here in Sheffield had it circa 20 years often weather is different at each end!

[Austat]

FNM 2150: 

 

[Peter C]

A Ford Figo, spotted in Mexico today.