Guess the (shite) car competition!

[mouseflakes]

Psssst! Tom man! You need to change the image names if you want to hang on to your Strongbow.

[Louise2cv]

 

 

Pony

[ChinaTom]

I have been a numpty. Again.No wonder Strongbow doesn't last long in my house.

[mouseflakes]

Wish I hadn't done that now - I feel an absolute cad.

 

 

"Yes, yes, my place at Nine. No need to bring booze old bean, I've got a boot full of Strongbow in the Jag..."

[fotorabia]

i saw a few of those when i went to Gdansk in 93..the badge looked like S&M or sumtink and all the number plates in that area started with GAY...

 

[ChinaTom]

Heavens to Murgatroyd old chap! Looks like I'll have to bally well chop the old gal in for a Shooting Brake at this rate. And, I'll be restocking with Royal Oak Lager for the next quiz, what what...

[dollywobbler]

 

 

Pony

That girl knows her 2CV-based motor vehicles. Even Greek built ones! I'm proud Louise. Will you develop such anorak-skills with the Allegro?

 

Hope so.

[barrett]

Carlo ya bastard, that one's really stumped me!Don't think that badge is Bertone..... styling looks sort of Vignale-ish but I can only think of the Fiat Samantha

[barrett]

ooh got it!

Vignale Fiat Eveline (what was it with the birds names?)

 

 

edit: whats this then....i'll buy a pint for anyone that can get this!

 

from a marque best known for it's rear-engined cars, this predated them by several years. It's an off-shoot of a factory racing car and was styled in-house.

[Spiny Norman]

Well it had to be a Skoda, didn't it?

 

That's the road going version of the 1100ohc racer I think, but I can't find any other pics of it.

 

[barrett]

Well done! I thought that would be impossible!I owe you a pint I guess

[Spiny Norman]

 

Anybody know what this is?

 

[barrett]

Yep!but only becuase I saw the badge and looked it up, never heard of it before.Daf Siluro by Michelotti, 1968

[Spiny Norman]

Ah, so what you're saying is I should have shooped out the badge. Yes I can see how that might have helped.

[barrett]

I wonder if anyone knows what this is?

 

 

I dont...can you tell us please! it's bugging me now, i'm sure i've seen it before...

[Pete-M]

Moskvich 423.

[ChinaTom]

Quote:First attempt of making own passenger car in Bulgaria was made by "Balkan" (ex-airplane) factory in Lovetch. On 1 may 1960 first two prototypes, called Balkan 1200 (see photo) were officialy presented. In the first half of 1960's, factory proposed a few experimental minibuses and small trucks. Unfortunately all these vehicles remained only on a prototype level.

[Pete-M]

Separated at birth then.

 

 

(Oh god, here comes another thread...)

 

Actually, yeah. I see it now.

 

{strolls off, defeated}

[carlo]

ooh got it!

Vignale Fiat Eveline (what was it with the birds names?)

 

 

edit: whats this then....i'll buy a pint for anyone that can get this!

 

from a marque best known for it's rear-engined cars, this predated them by several years. It's an off-shoot of a factory racing car and was styled in-house.

Well done! Just as interesting as these Vignale Fiats is the story of their importer, one Frixos Demitriou. Apparently he paid around £500,000 to bring hundreds of Vignale Fiat 500s, 850s, 124s and 125s in the late sixties into the UK but apart from a few 500 Gamines, they never sold. A slightly shady casino owner; and seemingly unperturbed at this failure he exported them back to his native Cyprus whereupon within a year he was run over by a runaway British tank whilst sitting in the back of one of his 125 Samanthas.

 

 

 

 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I think that Demetriou chap is one of those peopple that Buckley is permanently on the trail of, I would love to read a good story about him. he sounds like a right old diamond geezer.

[Guest]

I think that Demetriou chap is one of those peopple that Buckley is permanently on the trail of, I would love to read a good story about him. he sounds like a right old diamond geezer.

At first I thought Hirst was Buckley, mainly because of their mutual love of tweed jackets.