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NewcastleFalcon wrote: 27 Aug 2017, 23:53 Just seen it this second.....and instant thought without any research was "Australian" as per demag!

Its going to run into hours before I give it a go, but I presume I could deduct the time sleeping from the challenge!

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Whatever it is it's incredibly square... Not a curve in sight... Designer must have lost his French curves!!!

Makes a Volvo look positively curvy :lol:
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It is LHD, so not Australian or Japanese (and I think that I would have recognised it if it were...).

The square headlights mean that it is probably not American (unless the styling is really out of period). The sculpted waistline I think should be a clue.

I am sure that I have seen that front end before, probably in a car collection or museum, but I can't place it.
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Zelandeth wrote: 27 Aug 2017, 23:12 All right you lot, this will probably take you about ten seconds given your reputation...but this beast of a thing caused a fantastic moment of "...?" from me as it burbled into place just across from where I was parked up today. Definitely not one I'd ever even heard of before, never mind seen one...which given that this is my speciality time period wise surprised me.

I had to wander over and consult the badges before I could even figure out which country it was from much less what it was...however I've removed those now so you can't do that!

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Let's see how many seconds this takes you to get.

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Think I have nailed it Zel, but not without a bit of skulduggery (or using my initiative) I'm afraid to say :-D

I will not give it away, as others scratch their heads, but Xantia V6's points are correct it is a left hand drive, and Australia and the US will not provide the answer, and it wouldn't be giving too much awayto say that the decade is "The Seventies".

It is a very good whatsthisthen particularly with the badge removal and the direct upload to the forum with no url info to help.
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43750746222962 (in Decimal) which translates into the car name in Hexatrigesimal!
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My first thought was Taunus - girlfriend's dad had one - but even that wasn't quite so rectilinear.

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Even scrubbed badges off the hub caps and steering wheel...I'm just that mean!
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Zelandeth wrote: 28 Aug 2017, 12:38 Even scrubbed badges off the hub caps and steering wheel...I'm just that mean!


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Reminds me of a Datsun 200 I sold many years ago, the car that did more miles on an original engine than I've ever seen in another vehicle 1.25 million as a taxi.

It certainly has a Ford look about it, maybe a Granada built specially for Scandinavia or Italy.

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myglaren wrote: 28 Aug 2017, 09:47 My first thought was Taunus - girlfriend's dad had one - but even that wasn't quite so rectilinear.



That's a good effort - definitely close looking visually! Sadly nope!
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Also considered a Bristol but nothing seems to fit.
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I've got it narrowed down to the manufacturer and one of three very similar models. I cheated though so I'm going to reveal nothing.
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elma wrote: 28 Aug 2017, 20:02 I've got it narrowed down to the manufacturer and one of three very similar models. I cheated though so I'm going to reveal nothing.


That's 2 of us in the Skulduggery club now.....
I prefer to call it using initiative, or creativity :)


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Or a lack of patience, I couldn't wait any longer to find out what it was and had to go digging.
Usually the answers up by now, well done Zel you boggled the forum.
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Surprised that this has flummoxed so many of you - though it does make me feel a bit less useless for having been utterly clueless as to what it was when it arrived now.

It's a Fiat 130 3200 Automatic. Unedited photos below - though thanks to the badges being chrome you couldn't make the model number out anyway. ...The shape would have been a big clue though I reckon.
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Similar to the Lancia Gamma Coupe, not surprising seing as Pinninfarina desgined them both.

http://www.lancia.myzen.co.uk/forum/ind ... 4108;image


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