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[speedyK]

s it this one? Zanetti, Italian Championship 1966, Giannini 500 TV?

Looks like that front grille is right

[Pomeroy]

Just trying to keep the thread alive

BTW, anyone got any ideas yet on that little heavily-cambered one I posted?

Oh dear! Sorry if mine were TOO silly!


Do you want me to answer the positive cambered Imp based British prototype sports car?

Don't know about Zanetti and the Giannini but the year's right at least ... I was thinking more pan-European and Alpine sort of thing

And Luso's right that it was Duesenbergs that had apple green painted engines which came with a certificate of their dyno tested power output - which was often North of 400bhp on the weasel-pee low octane fuel of the 1930s.

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[speedyK]

Just trying to keep the thread alive 

BTW, anyone got any ideas yet on that little heavily-cambered one I posted?

Oh dear! Sorry if mine were TOO silly!


Do you want me to answer the positive cambered Imp based British prototype sports car?

Don't know about Zanetti and the Giannini but the year's right at least ... I was thinking more pan-European and Alpine sort of thing

And Luso's right that it was Duesenbergs that had apple green painted engines which came with a certificate of their dyno tested power output - which was often North of 400bhp on the weasel-pee low octane fuel of the 1930s.

Up to you! You've given a clue for the others – depends if you want to let them make something of it...

Any more clues about the Unipower predecessor? I'm stuck!

[Pomeroy]

Um ... the Fiat 500 bodyshell thing had a lovely revvy air cooled flat twin and accelerated about as fast as a Mini Cooper 970 of the age ... great fun when I finally got to drive one about 10 years ago [can't recommend any Fiat 500 highly enough for laughs per mile] ... and the lowline sports car was built in North West London and ran at Le Mans a couple of times which rather gave Andrew Hedges the idea and the engineer who built it was a Jazz fan so he named it after an early Jazz composer. Later he built a car in France with a girl's name but I don't know what his connection was with her exactly ... ......... I guess that's all clearer as mud

[JimH]

So no one got my Volvo Philip then?

[lusovx]

The cambered car is giving me a brain meltdown, some clue pls?  Is it a obscure manufacturer or a famous one (or based on)? Country? anything...

It's UK, better known than many and not a firm you would expect to utilise the mass manufacturer mechanicals this car has.

Ok, this was a tough one. Your clue got me thinking about TVR, fiercely independent company, own engines and all, not likely to use humble underpins. (edit) Pomeroy helped to

So... it's the TVR Tina?

Edited by lusovx, 24 November 2005 - 01:13 PM.

[speedyK]

So... it's the TVR Tina?

For all those who find this more than just a little incongruous,

>clicky<

[lusovx]

... and the lowline sports car was built in North West London and ran at Le Mans a couple of times which rather gave Andrew Hedges the idea and the engineer who built it was a Jazz fan so he named it after an early Jazz composer. Later he built a car in France with a girl's name but I don't know what his connection was with her exactly ...



......... I guess that's all clearer as mud

Hummm, I'm a bit of a Jazz fan myself, "composer" is more used in Classical music, great jazz musicians are (almost) all composers Sorry, What can it be? Ellington GT, Armstrong (Siddeley), Scott Joplin?

It's the only one remaining I think.

Meanwhile, to kill the headache, what's this extremely modest looking car?

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[speedyK]

Delahaye roadster by Figoni ca. 1935

[jules_s]

Delahaye roadster by Figoni ca. 1935

How on earth do you know all these cars?, do you have an extensive library or summat?

[lusovx]

Delahaye roadster by Figoni ca. 1935

How on earth do you know all these cars?, do you have an extensive library or summat?

Edit: Speedy ...you party spoiler!

Years and years of reading magazines and books in my case. My library is not as big as I would like it to be, more mags...


As you can see, absolutely no mercy can be shown to us sad anoraks, so, what's this?

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Edited by lusovx, 24 November 2005 - 05:06 PM.

[speedyK]

Delahaye roadster by Figoni ca. 1935

How on earth do you know all these cars?, do you have an extensive library or summat?

It's an illness – chronic petrolheadism.

Pomeroy is the worst case I've encountered

As a new reader, I got "The Observer's Book of Birds" and "The observer's Book of Birds' Eggs" which interested me at the time. Soon after that I got "The Observer's Book of Cars" and my fate was sealed

Devoured car mags since I could buy them. When the classic car movement started, I bought the very first issue of "Classic Car" at Crewe station on my way to start uni – bought more for the MGBGT V8 on the cover than the MG TC, but that meant I was confronted by all the older cars too.

For some reason this stuff sticks in my head, whereas I had to struggle to learn many other things

[lusovx]

...straying off-topic for a microsecond here! I wish you guys lived nearby! Comment on this on the off-topic forum

Clicky

Edited by lusovx, 24 November 2005 - 05:27 PM.

[speedyK]

As you can see, absolutely no mercy can be shown to us sad anoraks, so, what's this?

Hmmm... going to need some help on this one. Sure I've never seen (even a pic of) one before.

That front had German styling cues, so I thought Borgward or Hansa but can't doesn't seem to be. then thought perhaps French, Panhard but again not found anything.

Thought eastern European but not Tatra and nothing else springs to mind.

Doesn't look British or US to me...

Some sort of special-bodied Fiat?

[lusovx]

As you can see, absolutely no mercy can be shown to us sad anoraks, so, what's this?

Hmmm... going to need some help on this one. Sure I've never seen (even a pic of) one before.

That front had German styling cues, so I thought Borgward or Hansa but can't doesn't seem to be. then thought perhaps French, Panhard but again not found anything.

Thought eastern European but not Tatra and nothing else springs to mind.

Doesn't look British or US to me...

Some sort of special-bodied Fiat?

You've just nudget it! The right answer is in there somewhere, plus it's a special "sport" version, probabily why you didn't found it... You're like that little guy fighting against what's is name...?
(and it's german)

This wonderful piece of 30's futurama?

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[TurboTomato]

wtf is that It looks like a woodlouse

[speedyK]

As you can see, absolutely no mercy can be shown to us sad anoraks, so, what's this?

Goliath Sport Coupé 1951

Those sidelights were soooo Borgward, but I've never seen this one before!

[lusovx]

As you can see, absolutely no mercy can be shown to us sad anoraks, so, what's this?

Goliath Sport Coupé 1951

Those sidelights were soooo Borgward, but I've never seen this one before!

well spotted Goliath GP700 Sport Coupe

It's nice isn't it turbo? That shouldn't be to difficult...

[Pomeroy]

Pomeroy is the worst case I've encountered

Sadly true!

Pomeroy [thanks for getting 'The Pom' allusion TT] is a fourth generation garagiste so my great-grandfather had stables for horse-drawn carriages before they were horseless and my grandfather drove at Brooklands in 1909/1910 and I grew up with serious cars in the family like the last but one pre-war Alvis Speed 25SC and Phantom I and II Royces and Derby Bentley and a 38/250SSK Merc which my dad said much later "wasn't exactly a woman's car!" [7 litres, 6 cylinders supercharged with an unforgettable banshee wail and a penchant for spitting back through the carburettor and setting itself on fire :rolleyes: ] ... all of which means I was reading "The" Autocar and "The Motor" when I was 18 months old and identifying unusual cars that poked out of garages like a DKW Sonderklasse.


..... Faced with that background, it's a miracle I've ever had any other life at all!

[lusovx]

...the woodlouse anyone? You know, it was the real predecessor to the modern minivan, all those years ago...