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Johnny Damon auditioning ???for GEICO commercials?
No.
looks like a heavily modified Fiat 127, prepaired for a long-distance run.
Is it a VW?
Not a FIAT or VW.
O.K., maybe some Fiat based Moretti etc.?
But Fiat/Zastava based :-\
Not FIAT-, Zastava-, or Moretti-based.
The trail grows cold...
One thing you might have noticed about this pic - it's plain it's not raining. But the car's in the hills, so that might explain...
Spanish fly
Now that's just silly.
Brazilian Beetle...heard on the radio this morning that there in a beetle down there that can keep you up for 2 hours or something like that!
...and that was just egregious.
Off topic: Karn, what's with the Autopuzzler Emeritus?
Nothing - I was just goofin' around.
The puzzle car is perhaps based on a fwd Renault? Renault 16 or 12?
Not Renault-based.
My first attempt at a correct response to a pro puzzle (here goes)...I'm guessing an ARO 10 from around the early 1980s...or would that be Renault based?
As I stay with the Fiat wheels my last guess is Seat.
Maybe some homemade plastic-bodied globetrotterish long-distance "runner" from Spain or South-America.
Not a FIAT, a SEAT, or home-built. It is Spanish, however.
Okay, think I got it...A Simca 1200 Campero circa 1973-74, a product of Chrysler-Rootes and the Madrid-based Barreiros company.
The SIMCA 1200 Campero was a Matra Rancho-type of vehicle built in Spain by a Chrysler España dealership in Madrid called Talleres Panades. It was designed by Antonio Madueño, a tuning and specialist car builder from Madrid, for off-road use on forest tracks and unmade roads and based around Spanish Simca 1200 (neé Simca 1100) components. The idea of the vehicle was to bridge the gap between the 2-wheel drive Citroen Mehari and the true 4 wheel drive off-road vehicles being sold in Spain at that time, i.e. the Jeep Ebro Comando and the Santana Land-Rover. It used the Simca 1200´s floorpan with a very square-shaped Matra Rancho-style 2 door body made from glass fibre and polyester. It could carry loads of up to 500 kg, while the whole vehicle unladen weighed approximately 880 kg. (http://www.rootes-chrysler.co.uk/simca-cars/simca-campero.html)
(http://www.rootes-chrysler.co.uk/images/thecars/campero_01.jpg)
Quote from: Tuckeroo on May 24, 2007, 01:10:56 PM
Okay, think I got it...A Simca 1200 Campero circa 1973-74, a product of Chrysler-Rootes and the Madrid-based Barreiros company.
Yes! Well done, Tuckeroo. :applause:
;D Yea, my first pro-puzzle solved! Thanks, I guess this puts me in the big leagues, oh boy!
Quote from: Tuckeroo on May 24, 2007, 03:00:33 PM
;D Yea, my first pro-puzzle solved! Thanks, I guess this puts me in the big leagues, oh boy!
Welcome to the site!!!
:thumbsup:
Well done Tuckeroo!
I wouldn´t have guessed this in years...
I had no clue either...just thought I would post some supporting evidence.
Does anyone recognise this gem for a point? Good luck.
Time to get moving up a level.
Simca 1200 Campero, designed by Antonio Madueño and built by Talleres Panadés from Barcelona
Well done, 100% correct. The point is now yours.
Merged
Quote from: Djetset on January 30, 2009, 02:37:19 PM
Does anyone recognise this gem for a point? Good luck.
Djetset:
please search the solved puzzles section before posting.
On display
And a rear view: