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Auto Talk => Guess The Car Challenge => Topic started by: Colin on September 12, 2012, 09:24:21 AM

Title: GTCC 824
Post by: Colin on September 12, 2012, 09:24:21 AM
I will warn you now, this one could prove very tricky.

Have fun trying to figure it out!

(http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r139/colinrear/UK%20Events%202012/Windsor%20Castle%20Concours%202012/Picture293.jpg)
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: cawimmer430 on September 12, 2012, 09:26:50 AM
Bristol?
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: Colin on September 12, 2012, 09:36:10 AM
No.
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: cawimmer430 on September 12, 2012, 09:46:18 AM
Alvis?
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: Colin on September 12, 2012, 10:25:54 AM
No.
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: FoMoJo on September 12, 2012, 06:53:59 PM
A custom body of some sort fitted onto a Rolls or Bently chassis?
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: Colin on September 13, 2012, 12:38:11 AM
No sir.
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: cawimmer430 on September 13, 2012, 09:50:51 AM
Wolseley?
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: Colin on September 14, 2012, 12:44:44 AM
Nor yet.
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: Raza on September 14, 2012, 05:11:50 AM
Bristol Fighter.
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: 93JC on September 14, 2012, 09:58:28 AM
Aw, I clicked on this thread thinking Raza would have guessed Fucko Magucko.
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: cawimmer430 on September 15, 2012, 11:14:09 AM
Allard?
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: Colin on September 15, 2012, 04:44:17 PM
No.
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: cawimmer430 on September 15, 2012, 05:16:21 PM
AC?
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: Colin on September 15, 2012, 07:24:17 PM
Niet.
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: cawimmer430 on September 16, 2012, 01:12:54 PM
Vauxhall?
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: Colin on September 16, 2012, 07:08:49 PM
Nein.
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: Laconian on September 17, 2012, 12:11:46 AM
Whatever it is, it's BIZARRE.
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: cawimmer430 on September 17, 2012, 10:21:34 AM
Quote from: Laconian on September 17, 2012, 12:11:46 AM
Whatever it is, it's BIZARRE.


Hmmm....Bizzarrini? :lol:
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: Colin on September 17, 2012, 05:11:25 PM
No, sir.

The underpinnings are indeed British, but no-one has got the correct marque yet.

A further clue: 1949.
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: cawimmer430 on September 18, 2012, 05:27:21 AM
Healey?
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: Colin on September 18, 2012, 08:10:35 AM
Still no.
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: cawimmer430 on September 18, 2012, 01:13:44 PM
Austin?
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: Raza on September 18, 2012, 02:16:26 PM
Fucko Magucko.
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: FoMoJo on September 18, 2012, 03:19:39 PM
Something from Rootes Group?
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: cawimmer430 on September 18, 2012, 05:32:54 PM
I'll start the Rootes Group guessing...

Sunbeam?
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: Colin on September 18, 2012, 10:12:54 PM
Not Rootes Group.
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: cawimmer430 on September 19, 2012, 04:56:33 AM
Rover?
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: Colin on September 19, 2012, 05:41:33 AM
No.
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: cawimmer430 on September 19, 2012, 05:49:14 AM
Jaguar?
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: Colin on September 19, 2012, 09:05:07 AM
No.
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: cawimmer430 on September 19, 2012, 12:09:36 PM
Singer?
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: Colin on September 19, 2012, 06:05:01 PM
Singer = Rootes Group, so no. (OK, it was not in 1949, but still no).

Rover and Alvis are the nearest sort of marque......... and the marque that underpins this car is no longer around. They made their last car in 1969.
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: cawimmer430 on September 20, 2012, 05:57:45 AM
I figured the brand is long dead, but the UK had so many car brands I'm trying to think logically here...

Triumph?
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: Colin on September 20, 2012, 08:34:01 AM
Triumph made their last car in 1984, so, no.
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: 93JC on September 21, 2012, 11:52:19 AM
A Riley?
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: Colin on September 21, 2012, 06:20:56 PM
Hurrah, yes, underneath that body style is a Riley chassis.

For bonus points, what else can anyone tell me about the car?
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: cawimmer430 on September 22, 2012, 12:24:48 PM
Quote from: Colin on September 21, 2012, 06:20:56 PM
For bonus points, what else can anyone tell me about the car?

It's British.

It's RHD.

It's RWD.

:lol:
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: Colin on September 22, 2012, 04:35:14 PM
Very droll!.. and the first of those attributes is debatable as the stylist and coachbuilder were not British.

It's a 1949 Riley 105 Transformable. Created by Walter Koeng who had visions of producing a limited number of these cars, but this one turned out to be just too costly that no more were produced. This car has been in Switzerland almost of all of its live, coming to the UK only very recently, and where I saw, at the Windsor Castle Concours was its first UK appearance. 
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: Laconian on September 22, 2012, 08:59:26 PM
The car looks conventional from the front. Ghastly from the rear.

So the trick of that car is a panoramic sunroof for all occupants?
Title: Re: GTCC 824
Post by: cawimmer430 on September 23, 2012, 02:27:49 AM
 :lol:


Ok, post the next mystery car!  :rockon:
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