The backyard mystery

porridgehead · December 09, 2007, 11:14:16 PM

I don't know what this is, where it is, how it came to be or anything at all, up to and including what end of the car you are looking at. I figured that youse guise are the right people to be asking what the heck it is. It may be a movie car. It may be kit based. It may powered by eels. It may love the taste of sauerkraut, long walks on the beach and evenings by the fire sipping General Foods International coffee. I simply don't know. Do you?

porridgehead · December 10, 2007, 02:56:53 PM

Well ok then. Not even a guess? There's a bunch of people chatting it up about this over in the Carlounge.net. They've bounced the idea of a Sterling kit-car based movie vehicle, A Lancia (Nope) and a few random incorrect guesses. They have been as successful as we have, albeit much noiser with bickering, banter and the usual internet bullying of the carlounge. You can read their suppositions, proposals and logic here: http://forums.thecarlounge.net/zerothread?id=3580967

@re · December 10, 2007, 03:24:20 PM

This has got to be the front end, no? But that sure is a very strange place to put the headlights - assuming those are actually headlamp covers in the last picture...

porridgehead · December 10, 2007, 04:38:32 PM

I think it is the front end and yes, placing the headlights there is very strange. It's one of the reasons why I think it's a movie car. Logic and good design sense can go right out the window.

grobmotorix · December 10, 2007, 05:49:43 PM

Hm, I think they took some stock version of a car I don´t know and put a very long front on it. So the main headlights lie unproportionally far back, of course.

This front end is quite extreme and I´m still not sure which car had this kind of movable headlights...

Otto Puzzell · February 04, 2008, 03:10:19 AM

SIVA Saluki?

Otto Puzzell · February 17, 2008, 06:32:08 AM

Guess not...

Allemano · November 15, 2009, 07:23:21 AM

Somewhere was an (very) old puzzle showing an almost covered wreck of a white mystery car. It was stored in some backyard behind a fence.

Hope you know what I mean...

faksta · November 15, 2009, 07:44:37 AM

You mean the MG based kit car, which our member Arthur Dent used to own but recently sold?

Allemano · November 15, 2009, 07:47:19 AM

no. it was a rather futuristic car which was never identified. (neither donor nor builder)

Allemano · November 15, 2009, 07:57:26 AM

I'm stupid – it's on the first page of this thread!

Guessed it could be the right car of these, but it's appearantly not.

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