The "WTF is that?" thread

[mercedade]

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[barrett]

I don't know, but you should send it to https://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/

[bunglebus]

New old cars all look the same

[loserone]

8 hours ago, barrett said:

I don't know, but you should send it to https://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/

I have, and I've asked to join.

 

What does the panel think.

 

a) is the car outside my house something older, rebodied?

and 

b) is this car the same thing?

[barrett]

6 minutes ago, loserone said:

I have, and I've asked to join.

 

What does the panel think.

 

a) is the car outside my house something older, rebodied?

and 

b) is this car the same thing?

 

I think the body is certainly a bit later than the chassis, but I don't think those two are the same cars. Lots of differences on the radiator, wheel hubs, angle of steering column etc... difficult to tell for an idiot like me, but the second one could be a Star?

[High Jetter]

One is longer than the other. There were so many manufacturers and body builders you may need a specialist to id it. 

[Austat]

What's the unusual buggy in the left hand corner?

[vulgalour]

DVLA reg check suggests it was a 998cc Austin, so probably Mini based.  Did think it might be something like a Biota or a Stimson right up until I tried to find a picture of one like it.

[barrett]

How can you see a registration number to check ?!? It's just an indistinct blur when I look at it...

[NorfolkNWeigh]

2 hours ago, vulgalour said:

DVLA reg check suggests it was a 998cc Austin, so probably Mini based.  Did think it might be something like a Biota or a Stimson right up until I tried to find a picture of one like it.

Does it give a year?  The size and offset of the wheels suggests RWD , so possibly Sprite orA35/40 based. 

[vulgalour]

1 hour ago, barrett said:

How can you see a registration number to check ?!? It's just an indistinct blur when I look at it...

Click on the picture, and it takes you to Flikr.  You can get a legible read on the plate then of CRE263K, 1971 I think, cba to go and check.

[barrett]

I was viewing the full-size pic, but even now you've said the reg I can only just barely see the figures on the plate... I must have worse eyesight than I thought.

Date is 1971 so not an A35/A40, and not a Sprite (all 1275 by that time, right?). I'd guess Mini subframe in a bespoke chassis. I've asked the man who'll know, if anyone does, what it is.

[bunglebus]

Back then you'd get a brand new reg if you built a kit/hot rod or whatever so still possibly A35 etc running gear. 

[FakeConcern]

My nephew in NZ has just got this, I'd like to know what it is without asking him so I can impress him with my knowledge haha. The Toyota bB is my sisters.

[Volksy]

Infinity Q45 I believe.

But may well be Nissan's version of the car.

[Mr Laurence]

That looks like an A31 Nissan Cefiro. The slightly lesser known relative of the R32 Skyline

[FakeConcern]

Thanks for the input above and after a google image search, I'm pretty sure it is the A31 Nissan Cefiro.

[Mr Laurence]

Just now, FakeConcern said:

Thanks for the input above and after a google image search, I'm pretty sure it is the A31 Nissan Cefiro.

Advan 3 spokes too!

[Austat]

What's going on with this Lancia Beta Berlina:

[JeeExEll]

Lancia Beta Berlina by Swiss coachbuilders Felber in 1976.

Rear was modified too with tail-lights from the Beta coupe and a full glass hatchback rather than a fixed rear window and lift up bootlid.

I like it although direct front view is a bit gawky. (But then who am I to criticise).

[barrett]

The entire 1970s Felber 'range' was pretty out-there. I'm not keen on the two retro-styled roadsters, but I love the Ferrari because brown Ferraris are ace. How good would the Beta/365 be as a two-car garage for the ultimate ironic '70s cheesefest lifestyle? I even like the Firebird thing turned into a swb town car

Edit to add - the Beta was styled by none other than Michelotti, and was based heavily on his Beta-based Mizar show car of 1974, which is genuinely cool

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I saw a chopped-off Felber Beta front end on French or swiss eBay donkeys years ago, it was ridiculously expensive I think otherwise I might have hoovered it up

[martc]

NAMI Okhta. The Okhta automobile was built in 1986-87 at the Leningrad Laboratory of Advanced Prototyping of Light Vehicles by NAMI (the Central Automobile Research Institute). This concept car could seat a maximum of seven: the second and third seat rows were removable, while the front could be rotated through 180°. The rear seat folded into a handy table. At that time, the multiplex system — in a Soviet car no less — was pure science fiction. The only example, restored after a crash, is on display in a museum.

More Soviet concept cars here - https://www.rbth.com/multimedia/pictures/2014/03/11/12_conceptual_cars_produced_and_forgotten_in_the_ussr_34977

[Inspector Morose]

[MKT]

Have we had this yet?

[mitsisigma01]

Mx5 middle... Just hope it's not a mx5 chassis 😒

 

[bunglebus]

Yet another MX5 pickup!

[MKT]

2 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Mx5 middle... Just hope it's not a mx5 chassis 😒

 

Looking at the springs on the back I'd say not!

[sheffcortinacentre]

It looks like a TX taxi with mx5 cabin

[quicksilver]

Almost certainly a taxi chassis so it must be either an MX4 or an FX5, with a roadsign and half a trailer thrown in for good measure The reg belongs to a silver Mazda Bongo though.