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Title: Solved TGF-431: RAF 978 Spriditis, Latvia 1960
Post by: targhediferro on October 30, 2014, 05:50:32 AM
Can you identify this beautiful little bus?  An easy point I suppose.
Title: Re: TGF-431
Post by: richard cuyler on October 30, 2014, 09:54:55 AM
German?
Title: Re: TGF-431
Post by: targhediferro on October 30, 2014, 10:10:31 AM
Not German.
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Post by: wingroad on October 30, 2014, 04:58:37 PM
Japanese?
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Post by: targhediferro on October 30, 2014, 05:52:56 PM
Not japanese.
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Post by: targhediferro on November 10, 2014, 06:49:48 AM
Up....If there will be no further answers in Expert's section in the next 24 hours, I'll move it to Pro's.
Title: Re: TGF-431
Post by: richard cuyler on November 10, 2014, 07:20:41 AM
Is it an outdated Ford model which was built in, say, a South American country? There are definitely lots of styling markers of the Taunus FK1250 van in the design.
Title: Re: TGF-431
Post by: kwgibbs on November 10, 2014, 09:01:15 AM
Skoda?
Title: Re: TGF-431
Post by: targhediferro on November 10, 2014, 04:41:37 PM
The styling is actually Taunus-lookalike, but this van is not a Ford built in South America or elsewhere.
And it's neither a Skoda.
Title: Re: TGF-431
Post by: richard cuyler on November 11, 2014, 07:39:33 AM
Mmm. Styling copy, eh? Chinese?
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Post by: targhediferro on November 11, 2014, 01:54:08 PM
Not Chinese. 
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Post by: luisps on November 12, 2014, 02:53:36 AM
Except the, maybe modified, front looks a Romeo 2º minibus built in Spain under Alfa Romeo license during the '60s.
Title: Re: TGF-431
Post by: targhediferro on November 12, 2014, 04:44:19 AM
Not a Romeo, neither Alfa Romeo nor Fasa.
Title: Re: TGF-431
Post by: luisps on November 12, 2014, 06:11:22 AM
Ok, but FASA was the producer of Renault in Spain still in operation but under Renault Automóviles brand name, the company making Romeo vans was FADISA, that become absorbed by EBRO-Motor Ibérica, that afterwards become part of NISSAN.  Just to keep correctly informed the followers of the game...
Title: Re: TGF-431
Post by: targhediferro on November 12, 2014, 03:49:21 PM
Of course you're right, I confused the names.
Title: Re: TGF-431
Post by: Kytsyk on November 14, 2014, 03:04:20 PM
Soviet RAF-978 Spriditis.
Title: Re: TGF-431
Post by: targhediferro on November 14, 2014, 04:34:23 PM
Quote from: Kytsyk on November 14, 2014, 03:04:20 PM
Soviet RAF-978 Spriditis.
That's right...you got the correct answer; actually RAF is not a Soviet marque, but a Latvian one.
Title: Re: Solved TGF-431: RAF 978 Spriditis, Latvia 1960
Post by: Wendax on November 14, 2014, 04:55:28 PM
Latvia was part of the Soviet Union back then.  :idea:
Title: Solved: PN #1165 -- RAF 978 Spiriditis
Post by: pnegyesi on October 07, 2018, 12:37:35 PM
Please ID this microbus for a point - brand and model are required
Title: Re: PN #1165
Post by: Brock05 on October 07, 2018, 02:29:18 PM
RAF 977 derivative?
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Post by: pnegyesi on October 07, 2018, 03:59:47 PM
I just say, it is from RAF. Locked for you
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Post by: Brock05 on October 07, 2018, 04:06:23 PM
RAF 978 Spriditis?
Title: Re: PN #1165
Post by: pnegyesi on October 08, 2018, 01:01:22 PM
Congrats, another point to you.

Shown at the 1960 Geneva Autoshow
Title: Re: Solved: PN #1165 -- RAF 978 Spiriditis
Post by: Wendax on October 08, 2018, 03:29:19 PM
I had a slightly different version of the Spiriditis lined up as a puzzle, too.  :)
Title: Re: Solved: PN #1165 -- RAF 978 Spiriditis
Post by: pnegyesi on October 08, 2018, 03:56:15 PM
yeah, that's the RAF 08 Spiridits from 1958
Title: Re: Solved TGF-431: RAF 978 Spriditis, Latvia 1960
Post by: Wendax on May 27, 2023, 10:12:07 AM
It seems the simpler version was also named Spriditis RAF-978: