Thread: Name That Car

Originally Posted by prawnograph

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Scammell of some sort.

the green one looks like a modified vauxhall victor circa 1964

This was really,i hope,
1..Scammell Scarab
2...Isuzu Bellett
3..Bowell Nagar

^Did you cheat or did you actually know #'s 2 & 3? Just trying to work out if I should call you a genius or a fraud

Headworx,they were easy,
did not even cheat using google etc, The Isuzus were all over the place once ,one of the cars of the starts
of the Japanese invasion of the western markets.
The Bowell was the best known oz sports cars of the era, know a bloke who still has one in his shed.

^You've done well then, I'd never seen or even heard of either and had no idea Isuzu were such early players in the passenger car market. We're splitting hairs Red, but the sports car is actually a Bolwell.

Originally Posted by Barty

Scammell of some sort.

555 it is written on the front!

^ Chevy Monza? or perhaps the Pontiac version of the Monza.

IIRC it was a rather sporty car for people who couldn't afford a Camero or a Corvette.

I was driving a Triumph Spitfire back when these were popular.

Originally Posted by qwerty

Chevy Monza?

Yep. I put something up that I thought was not imported to OZ, trying to throw them off. Turns out it was imported there after all.

Originally Posted by qwerty

I was driving a Triumph Spitfire

Lots of Spitfires imported to the US. They were nothing but trouble. Now the TR-6 that was a car.

Sorry for dropping a L as in the Bolwell,looking under my chair as soon as possible for it.
Note to self, always check typing before posting.

Originally Posted by taxexile

the green one looks like a modified vauxhall victor circa 1964

That was my first thought too. I learned to drive in a '64 Victor, 3 gears on the column, bench seats and no seat belts. That green car's body shape reminded me very much of the old Victor. Then all the details are wrong, particularly the headlamps and the front grille.

Originally Posted by reddog

Sorry for dropping a L as in the Bolwell,looking under my chair as soon as possible for it.
Note to self, always check typing before posting.

No worries and I wasn't being serious, but if someone posted Hoden Monaro or Ford Facon I'd correct them too

Not much of a challenge when the file name includes the vehicle!

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

Not much of a challenge when the file name includes the vehicle!

I faked the file name. Its wrong.

its an italian car, a laforta. they didnt sell many of them.

Originally Posted by taxexile

its an italian car, a laforta. they didnt sell many of them.

Yup. Laforza to be exact. They were an obscure Italian brand that only built these. They were available with Ford and Chevy engines. They had some other quirky stuff like a built in radar detector.

One for Ant

Looks like a Lancia.

Have we had this one yet?

Originally Posted by reddog

Looks like a Lancia.

Yeah and what model

^
Had to look it up, Lancia Beta , 75-82.