The I'm Bored Guess The Car Quiz (No Googling allowed)

[threespires]

Does anybody remember this one?

[Keep it stiff]

threespires said:

Does anybody remember this one?

Jag prototype from the 80's?

[Halmyre]

Turbobanana said:

Turbobanana said:

What's this the interior of?

For completeness, this is the glorious(!) 1967 Mohs Ostentatienne Opera.

Designed and built by a chap who normally serviced seaplanes, this was based on an International truck chassis and had a 5.0 V8 which, ordinarily, ought to have made it go quite well. However, due to its 2800kg weight its performance was somewhat blunted. Why so heavy? Bruce Mohs was obsessed with safety, so there were no doors, to allow for side impact beams, seats that tilted rearwards in an accident, powerful sealed beam rear lights and a fridge because... well, a fridge. The door was a single lift-up rear contraption that led to a central aisle, just like a bus. Also like a bus were the 20" wheels with nitrogen-filled tyres and, I'd imagine, the turning circle. Not to mention fuel consumption. Total production: 1.

Interior in all its glory:



Rear entrance (stop sniggering at the back):




It's been fully restored (as a school project!) and is alive and well, living in Wisconsin:



I was obsessed with this car as a child, after seeing a grainy black & white pic in some magazine or other, but then lost track of it over the years until the advent of t'internet. Hideous creation, but good to see it still trundling around.

Obsessed with safety, but fitted with a pedestrian disembowelling device.

[SAB888]

Keep it stiff said:

threespires said:

Does anybody remember this one?

Jag prototype from the 80's?

I thought it looked like a Jag X-type with a weird Aston Martin grille.

[Turbobanana]

threespires said:

Does anybody remember this one?

Is it the Allard P4?

[Turbobanana]

threespires said:

Turbobanana said:

Is it the Allard P4?

Correct, well done.
Built by Radford, based on a Lexus.

I think there were three, one of which was written off. Seem to recall they were bog standard mechanically, with different front & rear ends and some red leather bits inside.

[threespires]

Turbobanana said:

Is it the Allard P4?

Correct, well done.
Built by Radford, based on a Lexus.

[Turbobanana]

How about this?

[Halmyre]

My first thought was Volga. Too obvious?

[Turbobanana]

Halmyre said:

My first thought was Volga. Too obvious?

Not a Volga, but correct side of the Iron Curtain.

[Dapster]

Turbobanana said:

Equus said:

Who remembers this one?:

Tara 2, which nearly become a TVR or an Aston I think.

That image makes it look very dumpy. This one shows it off as being far more rakish....

[Keep it stiff]

Turbobanana said:

How about this?

Given the RHD I was going thinking something from India perhaps descended from UK exported machining but noting the Iron Curtain clue I will go with a Moskvitch.

[RATATTAK]

Turbobanana said:

How about this?

Zim/Zil ???

No wait a minute - SKODA

[Turbobanana]

None if the above. Also it's a flipped image so LHD in real life. It's Eastern Bloc, don't forget.

[Mike-tf3n0]

Zil or Zis?

[Turbobanana]

Mike-tf3n0 said:

Zil or Zis?

No,neither of those. It's German.

[RATATTAK]

The only other East German manufacturer I can think of is Wartburg.

[Turbobanana]

RATATTAK said:

The only other East German manufacturer I can think of is Wartburg.

Not a Wartburg. There is an Audi connection.

[Lily the Pink]

RATATTAK said:

The only other East German manufacturer I can think of is Wartburg.

Surely no-one can have forgotten the Trabant ? Not that I think it likely to provide the answer here.

[finlo]

DKW?