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for a fairground/themepark ride car it has a lot of style, the designer had a good eye. I was thinking it had a hint of type 34 at the front...
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2025 7:00 am Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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Or NSU.
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2025 11:59 pm Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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or hillman Imp, or FIAT 1500... all cars more or less "copied" from the corvair, though.
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2025 5:22 pm Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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Alpha.
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Shonandb
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2025 8:09 pm Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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Thanks BD. It was among a group of BMWs and I didn't have a chance to go over and take a closer look.
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GArBa
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| Posted: Wed May 21, 2025 12:10 am Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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The body is a late model Alfa Romeo 105/115 series, but that surely doesn't look like an Alfa engine. BMW or some other swap?
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| Posted: Wed May 21, 2025 4:25 am Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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or hillman Imp, or FIAT 1500... all cars more or less "copied" from the corvair, though. |
Other way around! In fact if I recall correctly one of GM's sales pitches was that the Corvair had "European styling"!
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| Posted: Wed May 21, 2025 9:49 am Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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| GArBa wrote: |
| The body is a late model Alfa Romeo 105/115 series, but that surely doesn't look like an Alfa engine. BMW or some other swap? |
That 5.0 badge is almost certainly Ford. I count 4 plug wires leading to the right side, so it's probably a V8. BMW only has one engine that's a V8 and has 5 liter displacement (4.9 technically), the S62. The head covers (just barely visible behind the plug wires) look like the S62's. So either that or a Ford 5.0, but if it was with other BMWs i would guess its BMW powered.
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I'm leaning towards Ford since I found this other 5.0 Ford conversion online at this site.
http://www.rickwrench.com/index79master.htm?http://www.rickwrench.com/gtv5000.html
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| Posted: Wed May 21, 2025 11:50 am Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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but those photos of the alfa with a ford lump are from quite a few years back, so maybe they've changed to a bmw engine.
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| Posted: Thu May 22, 2025 6:59 am Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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or hillman Imp, or FIAT 1500... all cars more or less "copied" from the corvair, though. |
Other way around! In fact if I recall correctly one of GM's sales pitches was that the Corvair had "European styling"! |
All the cars I mentioned came out after the Corvair, at a time when most euro car companies still looked to the US when styling new models.
In the case of the Prinz 4 and Fiat 1500 (both launched in 1961) the Corvair inspiration has been openly acknowledged by their respective designers Claus Luthe and Felice Mario Boano. I don't have a direct reference about the Imp, it may be even a derivative of the Prinz 4, but the styling cues are pretty obvious and it came out in 1963 after a significant redesign from its "bubble car" prototypes.
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2025 6:34 pm Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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| What kind of vehicle are the two farthest on the right? |
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2025 11:53 pm Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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| Ford Taunus Transit and Fiat 1100T. |
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2025 8:44 am Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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| Ford Taunus Transit and Fiat 1100T. |
never seen a Fiat 1100T, i thought it was a Hanomag Henschel, but i think you are right.
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2025 12:36 pm Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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Here's one for ya...
Guess what.
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2025 12:55 pm Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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Looks like a Jensen humped a Volvo.
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2025 1:38 pm Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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Mazda?
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2025 6:55 am Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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Yes, early 1970s wagon.
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2025 12:17 pm Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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Yep, 1971 Mazda. It was my cousins, came with a rotary engine but had been converted to inline four JDM engine. Had some running issues but was a cool little car, people were always asking what it was.
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2025 2:51 pm Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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| Looks like a Jensen humped a Volvo. |
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