Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[Richard_FM]

The saga of the Big 3 American car makers has thrown up so oddities over the years due to them being unable to cope with any major changes in their home market it seems.

I've heard by the time Fiat bought up Chrysler they were only making money on their pick-ups.

For every bright spark like Lee Iacocca & John Z DeLorean (though he couldn't make his own company work!) there are a few Roger Smiths who had big ideas but left thing in an even worse state than they started with.

[Austat]

Felber also made this, the Ferrari 365 GT4 Croisette SW:

[myglaren]

Just read about the  Aurus

 

 

[JimH]

Only learned of the existence of this horror this very afternoon. 

Kinda wish I hadn't.

[Remspoor]

Keinath KC 5, a convertible Opel Monza.

This one is for sale...I will not post it in the tat or bargain threads.

https://www.classic-trader.com/uk/cars/listing/opel/monza/monza-keinath-kc-5/1985/229550

 

[JeeExEll]

Convertibles just not my thing but interesting pics.

There were estate Senator conversions too. I posted a few pics months ago but can't find them. They were German Opel conversions, probably easy to check it out on internet.

[JeeExEll]

3 hours ago, JimH said:

Only learned of the existence of this horror this very afternoon. 

Kinda wish I hadn't.

Ok, I'll take the bait, what is it?

Looks a bit like that 60s Datsun copy of a MGB roadster but don't think it's one of those with that front end and rear wheelarches.

[MisterH]

52 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Keinath KC 5, a convertible Opel Monza.

This one is for sale...I will not post it in the tat or bargain threads.

https://www.classic-trader.com/uk/cars/listing/opel/monza/monza-keinath-kc-5/1985/229550

 

Why do I want to call it the Kenneth?

[OM646]

37 minutes ago, JeeExEll said:

Ok, I'll take the bait, what is it?

Looks a bit like that 60s Datsun copy of a MGB roadster but don't think it's one of those with that front end and rear wheelarches.

Volvo P 1900 (predates the 1800)

[AnthonyG]

That Senator convertible looks pretty good and, by the similarity in style to the Cavalier Mk2 convertible, not that far off what GM would done themselves had they bothered (although I can well see why they didn’t - the target market would have been pretty small)

[martc]

On 3/17/2022 at 1:09 PM, Austat said:

Felber also made this, the Ferrari 365 GT4 Croisette SW:

That can't be a chauffeur driven 1100 can it? The Swiss, eh?

[artdjones]

Probably just a hotel doorman.

[DSdriver]

Or "your nicked son"

[JimH]

Look at the grille.

[mk2_craig]

On 11/9/2014 at 4:58 PM, philibusmo said:

any odd shite cars that you have only recently learned of?

Yes.

Oh yes indeed. Until a few minutes ago I had zero knowledge of the IZH ODA. And now, thanks to an online photo courtesy of Craptical Plastics, I desperately want one. 

[adw1977]

On 18/03/2022 at 21:52, JeeExEll said:

Convertibles just not my thing but interesting pics.

There were estate Senator conversions too. I posted a few pics months ago but can't find them. They were German Opel conversions, probably easy to check it out on internet.

Dave R on Flickr posted this 1998 photo of one in the UK.

https://flic.kr/p/SLpYyA

[D.E]

6-wheeled Peugeot 309 camper. No idea wether it was built by someone in a shed or an actual factory. Maybe some (possibly small) British firm? It is rhd...

 

[quicksilver]

1 hour ago, adw1977 said:

Dave R on Flickr posted this 1998 photo of one in the UK.

https://flic.kr/p/SLpYyA

I like that. Surely it must be connected with the UK reg Keinath B1 OPEL.

56 minutes ago, D.E said:

6-wheeled Peugeot 309 camper. No idea wether it was built by someone in a shed or an actual factory. Maybe some (possibly small) British firm? It is rhd...

 

Isn't that the back end of a Cortina/Sierra Starcraft grafted to the front of a poor unsuspecting Pug 309? No idea why and there doesn't seem to be anything about it online.

[Richard_FM]

2 hours ago, quicksilver said:

I like that. Surely it must be connected with the UK reg Keinath B1 OPEL.

Isn't that the back end of a Cortina/Sierra Starcraft grafted to the front of a poor unsuspecting Pug 309? No idea why and there doesn't seem to be anything about it online.

Note the Dutch registered Princess.

[AnthonyG]

Someone has used a Peugeot 309 when they really should have used a Cortina, or perhaps a Sierra/P1800: 

[Zelandeth]

On 3/18/2022 at 8:04 PM, mk2_craig said:

Yes.

Oh yes indeed. Until a few minutes ago I had zero knowledge of the IZH ODA. And now, thanks to an online photo courtesy of Craptical Plastics, I desperately want one. 

Glad it wasn't just me who went "Wait...what is *that?*" When looking at that picture.

 

[MKT]

On 3/18/2022 at 8:04 PM, mk2_craig said:

Yes.

Oh yes indeed. Until a few minutes ago I had zero knowledge of the IZH ODA. And now, thanks to an online photo courtesy of Craptical Plastics, I desperately want one. 

These are RWD afaik

[GeordieInExile]

26 minutes ago, MKT said:

These are RWD afaik

Launched in 1990 (based on ye olde underpinnings) and already looked five years out of date. Only stopped making them in 2005 because they couldn't afford to bring them up to spec to meet emissions rules. 

How shite would one of these be compared to, say, a Yugo Skala or FSO Caro?

[quicksilver]

The Buick Opel by Isuzu. Now there's a car with an identity crisis.

Another of the eleventy million GM T-car variants, it's essentially a federalised Isuzu Gemini sold in the US as a replacement when the Deutschmark exchange rate made the Manta too expensive to import (and who knew Opel Mantas were sold in the US by Buick dealers?)

[AndaBoss]

Ferrari 750 

 

Toyota eCom. A late 90s electric car

[Missy Charm]

Not so much a car that I didn't know existed, but one I had completely forgotten about and suddenly remembered: the Proton Coupe.  The Coupe, or Putra in its home market, was related to the Proton Satria, which as we all know was based on the Mitsubishi Colt.  The Coupe, however, was a stylistic copy of the Australian market Mitsubishi Lancer Coupe or Mirage Asti, which is the Japanese Colt.  It's all very confusing.  Engine was a 1.8.  I've actually seen one in real life.  

[AndaBoss]

Citroen c3 pluriel charleston

[barrett]

On 3/23/2022 at 10:45 AM, MKT said:

These are RWD afaik

It seems like the early ones were based on the Aleko running gear but with RWD for some reason. Later ones were based on the Lada 110 so became FWD.

[AndaBoss]

Ginetta Tora

I thought they only made sports cars

 

[scorchio69]

On 3/23/2022 at 9:31 PM, Missy Charm said:

Not so much a car that I didn't know existed, but one I had completely forgotten about and suddenly remembered: the Proton Coupe.  The Coupe, or Putra in its home market, was related to the Proton Satria, which as we all know was based on the Mitsubishi Colt.  The Coupe, however, was a stylistic copy of the Australian market Mitsubishi Lancer Coupe or Mirage Asti, which is the Japanese Colt.  It's all very confusing.  Engine was a 1.8.  I've actually seen one in real life.  

I used to have one when I was still in the motor trade a long time ago, always had the strange desire to swop over all the evo3 parts inc rear floor pan to make it 4wd, for the life of me I can’t actually remember what happened to that car