Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[Austat]

Fiat 124 Touring Superleggera Cabriolet:

[hennabm]

On 4/21/2020 at 7:29 AM, Austat said:

AD016 Hatchback conversion by Crayford, using an MGB tailgate!

Crayford also did conversions on the first Princesses, before BL decided to do it for themselves.

[bangernomics]

Fiat 124 Touring Superleggera Cabriolet:

That’s such a pretty little car, shame lada didn’t carry them through.

[vulgalour]

Whatever this is.

 

[Aston Martin]

There are many plastic clad cars, this is a new one for me.

 

207 Outdoor.... Because, cars are usually indoor? Or always at the dealership? Fuck knows.

[angle]

This has been bugging me for a while, anyone know what my airport taxi was? I can't work it out from googling. No exterior badges but a Chevy one on the steering wheel, three rows of three bench seats (and I'm guessing running gear from some sort of Soviet truck) 

 

[vulgalour]

Humber Pullman, early fifties.  They normally look more like this.

 

EDIT: actually, no it isn't, it's just similar.  ALL OLD CARS LOOK THE SAME.

[vulgalour]

Second attempt.  Maybe a 1939 Chevrolet Master Deluxe with some modifications.

[LightBulbFun]

36 minutes ago, vulgalour said:

Humber Pullman, early fifties.  They normally look more like this.

 

EDIT: actually, no it isn't, it's just similar.  ALL OLD CARS LOOK THE SAME.

if it makes you feel better I also thought it was a humber of some kind at first

especially as I had recently seen this photo of one @quicksilver spotted

https://flic.kr/p/2i18zeP

[bunglebus]

11 hours ago, angle said:

 

Loving the toilet door knob on the boot

[bunglebus]

10 hours ago, vulgalour said:

Second attempt.  Maybe a 1939 Chevrolet Master Deluxe with some modifications.

 

Close but I can't see the Cubans fitting hidden door hinges - probably a 1940. *edit* except they have a different boot profile...

 

[vulgalour]

The 1940 does at least have more correct looking back doors.  Perhaps it's a '40 with a '39 arse and obviously bits from other cars too.

[egg]

On 4/16/2020 at 10:58 PM, AnthonyG said:

Seen an advert on Car and Classic for a Mk3 Cortina with an 1100 engine. Apparently this was a special spec for Greece due to tax rates.

Lordy it must be slow, the 1300s were just about acceptable..

Reminds me that they did a 940cc x-flow in the MK1 escort in Italy....must have been dreadful.

[egg]

Thanks again to  the Facebook group 'Microcar world' the Chihuahua Microcar (Italian). 50cc.

Made in the South in Salerno.

[barrett]

1940 GM is definitely right for that taxi. I think the shape of the boot changed depending on model rather than year.

[vulgalour]

Right then, I'm probably going to get this wrong but from what I can fathom it's most likely a 1939 or 1940 car on the GM A body platform, because that's the years that sort of rear end was around, and the all-upright-pillars also spanned the two years.  The door hinges are external on some cars, hidden on others, in both '39 and '40, just to confuse things further.  I've been unable to find any with the vertical bar in the rear door as on the taxi.  The other complication as that the roof line changes and I'm yet to find anything that has the taxi's lower roof line (pretty sure it's not been chopped) as well as the big bustle boot and the hidden hinges.  The other complication is trying to find something with three rows of seats.

Then I found this 1942 Cadillac Fleetwood.

[vulgalour]

At this point who frigging knows?  That Cadillac find really made me question what I was looking at, it's absolutely not what I would have expected it to be.

[Sir Snipes]

Looks pretty good doesn't it? Lots of detail differences but the basic shape looks right.

[Aston Martin]

It looks like a hack job.

[Austat]

Fiat 125P Jamnik Cabriolet, used by the tourist bureau of Warsaw for sightseeing back in the 70's:

[bunglebus]

7 hours ago, vulgalour said:

The other complication is trying to find something with three rows of seats. Then I found this 1942 Cadillac Fleetwood.

 

Three rows of seats will be a Cuba mod to fit more passengers in. Reckon you're bob-on with the body, as the fuel filler in the wing was bugging me too, could have been filled I suppose. The sill area also looks identical, shape of the rear of the front wing, front quarterlights,  Some of the Chevies seem to have a shaped rear door around the leading edge of the rear wing too. 10 shite points to Vulgalor!

[adw1977]

 

The Leopard, 700 of these were built in Rhodesia in the 1970s.  Designed to allow the occupants to survive driving over a land mine!

[bunglebus]

Air cooled VW engine and suspension, I had a read up on them a while back

[chaseracer]

There's a Leopard on display at the Imperial War Museum in Salford.

[angle]

10 hours ago, vulgalour said:

Right then, I'm probably going to get this wrong but from what I can fathom it's most likely a 1939 or 1940 car on the GM A body platform, because that's the years that sort of rear end was around, and the all-upright-pillars also spanned the two years.  The door hinges are external on some cars, hidden on others, in both '39 and '40, just to confuse things further.  I've been unable to find any with the vertical bar in the rear door as on the taxi.  The other complication as that the roof line changes and I'm yet to find anything that has the taxi's lower roof line (pretty sure it's not been chopped) as well as the big bustle boot and the hidden hinges.  The other complication is trying to find something with three rows of seats.

Then I found this 1942 Cadillac Fleetwood.

I think you're there, thanks Vulgalour! It doesn't really come across in the photos but the '39 and' 40 Chevys both looked a bit short, this definitely looks like it. 

[bunglebus]

Lamborghini Islero

 

[supermellowman]

Islero. Had a co-starring role alongside Sir Rog in “The Man Who Haunted Himself” as a raffish alter ego of a Rover P5B...

great film. Here’s the two of them some years later. Googled pic

[Sir Snipes]

Looks like the designer forgot the tail lights and had to throw them in at the last moment.

[Remspoor]

Did not realise this was a thing.

or this

[Austat]

Fiberfab Bonanza GT: