The "WTF is that?" thread

[sheffcortinacentre]

Looks like a Taunus 12  or 15 m there false wheel drive & share nothing with the UK consul MK1.

[D.E]

I'm not (yet) sure what it is, but I don't think it's a Taunus P4. Wrong grill, wrong bonnet, wrong bumper...

[RayMK]

15 hours ago, D.E said:

I'm not (yet) sure what it is, but I don't think it's a Taunus P4. Wrong grill, wrong bonnet, wrong bumper...

Agreed. It's definitely not a P4 which was a later car with very different looks. I wondered if it was a P1 or P2 (12m or 17m) with the radiator grill missing but I've checked on the net for the underlying structure appearance and neither have 4 apertures for radiator airflow, just one or two depending on the year.  Opels don't match the appearance either, nor does a UK Consul/Zephyr/Zodiac MK1 which is more slab sided.  I can't find any likely export or licence built variants which match, or indeed any more obscure marques which fit the bill, so I'm still stuck with Taunus P1 12m if I ignore the front air intake details 😀 .  

[martc]

Being in Iran it could be a locally built car, but the photo is from back in the days of the Shah, when Iran was far more open and west leaning so I wouldn't expect them to have the need to cobble their own variants together using only local sources like they have to today. Spares from abroad would have been much easier to get hold of as well, so you wouldn't need to bodge a grille for example (not that that would stop an enterprising home mechanic).

 

[D.E]

Mmm. In the first few production years the basic spec P2 apparently had a different grill with less chrome. Looks close...

[RayMK]

1 hour ago, D.E said:

Mmm. In the first few production years the basic spec P2 apparently had a different grill with less chrome. Looks close...

I think you've got it. I could not find any P1 or P2 photos which showed four apertures in the underlying grill structure.  Your photo shows them clearly. Well done!

[martc]

Any idea? We're somewhere in Zaragoza. Some sort of kit car I suspect.