What kind of car is this? I want one..

Johnny

It has retractable headlights which leads me to believe its probably 1960's, and it has a long bonnet no doubt concealing an in-line 6 or V12 motor.

Alex Alexeenko is a Ukrainian web designer, info about him & his business is available on the net. He seems to be fluent in English, contact him & ask if he has any info about the car, since his name is on the picture.

-G

Those little black protruding bumpers have been bugging me all day. I know I've seen them somewhere before. I just can't place them.

Need more alcohol to stimulate brain activity.

-G

That car was written about very recently on a site like pistonheads.com or one of the others that writes on new cars / old cars /strange cars. Dont remember much of the info

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Those little black protruding bumpers have been bugging me all day. I know I've seen them somewhere before. I just can't place them.

The bumpers, could it be these on a Saab Sonett?
http://www.seriouswheels.com/p...ett-V4-red-fa-lr.jpg

It's been bugging me too. It has a lot of similarities to the Boano-designed Abarth 207A, but that car has an asymmetric cabin and no pop-up lamps and no lower bumper rams.

Is it possible that the car is a one-off or home-modified?

Mark

Alexeenko's complete Flickr Photo Set

He takes nice pictures of Panteras too...

Here's the nose badge

I think it is the full size model of “Speed Racer’s” car.
So maybe it is Japanese.
Probably a Toyota that escaped recall!

I dont think it's Japanese. The windscreen and the bench seat would suggest 50's, but the pop up headlights would suggest late 60's. I think it's a 50's Corvette windscreen because the Americans where the first to do the radically curved glass. I cant think of any European car with a windscreen quite like that. The 1955 Alfa Giulietta prototype(pictured below)had curved glass but not the production cars.



If this car was made from fibreglass it would be much less significant - it's because it's clearly made from steel that it bugs the hell out of me! Prototypes are normal made from ally. Maybe it's a custom car? I hope not..

Johnny

It's an Abarth, the story can be found here http://thechicaneblog.com/2009...t-abarth-208a-found/

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Originally posted by Mark Charlton:
It's been bugging me too. It has a lot of similarities to the Boano-designed Abarth 207A, but that car has an asymmetric cabin and no pop-up lamps and no lower bumper rams.

Is it possible that the car is a one-off or home-modified?

Mark

CRAP! I missed it by ONE NUMBER! Well-done Ron!



Mark

Well done boys! What a fascinating little car.

Johnny

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Originally posted by Johnny Woods:
Well done boys! What a fascinating little car.

Johnny

I cannot take the credit, one of the Ferrari chat members gave the answer in this thread http://www.ferrarichat.com/for....php?t=217636&page=4

I'm just glad it's been solved and we can all get back to our real jobs. Not that it hasn't been a fun 2 1/2 weeks of surfing and searching, but I think there may be a few folks who have lost some weight and were not sleeping ... Mark, I'm not talking about Will!

Wait a minute. It looks like the same car. Better shape in Johnny's first pic. But his pic don't look like the US.. It looks best from the front..

Dang Ron, I was going to give you a big kudos for your sleuth work ... well I think you still deserve some credit for finding the thread on Ferrari Chat.


I'll won't even ask why you were there


-G

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Originally posted by Cowboy from Hell:
Dang Ron, I was going to give you a big kudos for your sleuth work ... well I think you still deserve some credit for finding the thread on Ferrari Chat.


I'll won't even ask why you were there

Well, they do Have an "other" Italian catagory, I am just trying to spread the DeTomaso awareness. Actually, they do give us P-Car owners positive feedback.


-G