Name that Car - Porridgehead Edition

porridgehead · January 12, 2007, 09:00:15 PM

Excellent. Colani is quite distinctive, ain't he.

Well ok then, let's crank this up a notch. No grad-school specials or artiste creations, nosirree. What we have here is gen-u-wine trivial epherma of the most obscure variety. Good luck!

SeaLion · January 13, 2007, 04:53:02 PM

Is it a british Kieft from 1954 with a Coventry Climax engine? First shown at the London Motor Show and for sale at 1560 british pounds non cars of this model was ever sold. This Kieft had a GRP body.

porridgehead · January 13, 2007, 05:40:58 PM

No, and sorry 'bout that.

FWIW, any of the file names of the cars I'm posting here are, at best, incorrect. At worst, they are complete misdirections that only serve to waste your time searching avenues that may seem promising but actually hold no value.

Sometimes they are merely amusing.

SeaLion · January 13, 2007, 06:07:56 PM

They sure are! I actually found some very beautiful cars made by mr. Cyril Kieft. It was no waste of time for me.

The car looks a little similar to another post war car, the french Georges Irat.

porridgehead · January 13, 2007, 07:45:28 PM

Keep Georges in mind because he might show up in the near future. The Kiefts are interesting little beasts, aren't they?

Of course, almost any Welsh automobile is interesting, no?

Otto Puzzell · January 14, 2007, 08:28:14 AM

It's a 1959 Peugeot 403 built by Radovitch.

porridgehead · January 14, 2007, 09:19:10 AM

Oooooooh... and here I was thinking this might last a full 24 hours. Radovitch Puego... Pugeaux... Peaug... errr... what you said. That's what it is.

So our movable feast continues onward. Once again, good luck and happy hunting. I suspect this one will go quickly too.

SeaLion · January 14, 2007, 09:47:14 AM

French and based at a rear-engined Renault?

Otto Puzzell · January 14, 2007, 10:16:49 AM

1960 Vuillet Coupe

porridgehead · January 14, 2007, 10:23:47 AM

Krikeys! It took longer for me to find out what mechanicals the dang thing was based upon than for you guys to come up with an answer.

I guess the color of the car and the background were kinda big hints, weren't they.

So, yeah, 1960 Vuillet Coupe, based upon the Peugu... aw screw it... Pug 403.

Either I'm not making these hard enough or youse guise are just too good.

This one is probably a gimme too.

GTO48 · January 14, 2007, 07:00:57 PM

Since we're on a roll here, I'm going with Peugeot again...

porridgehead · January 14, 2007, 07:58:01 PM

You just want to see me try to spell it again, don't'cha. Not gonna do it. Nosir. Not gonna.

Of course, it may still be based upon those cars that you mentioned, but I ain't gonna spell it.

porridgehead · January 15, 2007, 05:01:53 PM

Don't tell me that I've actually made you guys work at one of these! Incroyable!

Arthur Dent · January 15, 2007, 05:20:15 PM

Looks rather like a poor man's version of the MG T-series Aero coupe

porridgehead · January 15, 2007, 05:28:14 PM

Hmmm... from this angle, it kinda does. But then, was the MG-T Aero really a rich man's car? Either way, there's no relation.

porridgehead · January 17, 2007, 12:10:43 AM

Ooooooh... maybe this is harder than I thought! Of course, when you're the one who blindly stumbled across the photo in the first place while searching for something completely unrelated that Karnevil cooked up that you never did find in the first place, it damn well better seem easy. At least it should seem easier than reading that last sentence.

So maybe a hint is in order. Well you should realize that I suck at hints. Actually, make that blow. Nononono... no, let's just stick with suck. I tend to blow them, therefore I suck. What the hell were we talking about?

Oh yeah, if you squint your eyes and rub Vaseline brand petroleum jelly on your monitor and give your medulla a solid whack with a tire iron, this will almost look like a pale imitation of a copy of a mimeographed pantomime of a couple very famous cars from another country. This car is from that very same country.

Try it and see if I'm not right.

Did I mention that I suck at hints?

Ultra · January 17, 2007, 12:13:35 AM

Quote from: porridgehead on January 17, 2007, 12:10:43 AM
Did I mention that I suck at hints?

I believe you left that out.

Arthur Dent · January 17, 2007, 12:52:53 AM

so it French then?

MG · January 17, 2007, 06:23:07 AM

This is a 1933 Alvis Prince, a one off custom made for the Earl of Swofford on his 60th birthday, which, as we all know, was the same as St. Swithern's Day. The car featured an interior made entirely of elephant hide tanned in a The Punjab and transported about the HMS Fearnaught travelling from Rangoon via Lehore. It featured an engine made by Sir Thomas Swineherd, the Third Duke of Surrey on Chamberbord. It displaced exactly 12 liters and featured 12 cylinders, half of them using conventional spark ignition and half using compression ignition technology, due to the vicissitudes of wartime fuel availability. As the motor produced over 600 newton/meters per pico curie of torque, no transmission was needed, allowing the driver to savor the superb handling characteristics of a suspension welded directly to the chassis, thereby reducing camber change during cornering to zero.

Sadly, the Alvis Prince was melted down to make munitions for the Great War, when raw materials became scarce. All that survives is this photograph, which is really of quite good quality, considering the era in which it was taken.

You can trust me on this or you can look it up! Go to http://www.rarebritishjunk.com/tomfoolery.

porridgehead · January 17, 2007, 07:53:33 AM

I really, really, reallyreallyreally hate to say that MG is incorrect here because I wish he was right. Still, I have to thank him for be so wonderfully wrong. That made my morning.

Arthur Dent, it is indeed Franch, but not one of those Puggie things.

Arthur Dent · January 17, 2007, 10:40:22 AM

haha - good one MG

It almost likes like a cheapo fiberglass body to me.

porridgehead · January 17, 2007, 10:46:49 AM

It really looks like a cheap fiberglass body if you forget to wipe the Vaseline off your monitor. However, given that the car is pre-1945 (Just how pre is for you to determine), it is probably not fiberglass. However, I cannot say definitively without actually thumping fenders a la the ol' Cobra test.

MG · January 17, 2007, 11:26:02 AM

Ah, oui, monsieur. Perhaps zees car eeez le seldom seen Citroen Un Chevaux? It looks ratheeer as though eeet might feature zeee traction avant, non?

porridgehead · January 18, 2007, 08:48:59 PM

Oh hellz bellz, I've just committed the cardinal sin of Name that car: I gave an incorrect hint. This car is not pre-1945. It is, however, pre-1950. Narrows things down a bit, but still it's a bozo no-non to have you searching for something that did not exist when I said it did. My apologies.

In the interest of helping, here's another pic of the same thing. It may help, it may not.

Allan L · January 19, 2007, 04:38:33 AM

Bolt-on wire wheels on a car made between 1945 and 1950 must be unusual enough to make an easy identification - except I can't think of anything that used such wheels then.

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