Very obscure lockdown brain-teaser involving a kilt
Very obscure lockdown brain-teaser involving a kilt
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Gavarnie

Original Poster:

167 posts

88 months

Sunday 24th January 2021
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I'll be seriously impressed if anyone knows:-

(a) which year this photograph was taken
(b) the EU-wide commercial purpose for which it was taken.

Getting the answer to (b) should help pinpoint the answer to (a). The kilt is actually a red herring.


anonymous-user

84 months

Sunday 24th January 2021
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Concorde 1976.....eyes looking skyward?

healeyneil

383 posts

177 months

Sunday 24th January 2021
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His kilt is too short !

CharlesdeGaulle

26,882 posts

210 months

Sunday 24th January 2021
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Something to do with unleaded fuel?

CanAm

14,041 posts

302 months

Sunday 24th January 2021
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healeyneil said:
His kilt is too short !
And so are his socks! No sign of a Sgian-dubh either.

Gavarnie

Original Poster:

167 posts

88 months

Sunday 24th January 2021
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catweasle said:
Concorde 1976.....eyes looking skyward?
Nice try but no and no - the fellow in the kilt is holding out his hand because he thinks it's going to rain (but that's not much of a clue).

CanAm

14,041 posts

302 months

Sunday 24th January 2021
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An "EU-wide commercial purpose", yet it's a RHD Fiat coupé.
Fery interestink.

33q

1,628 posts

153 months

Sunday 24th January 2021
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Fiat 850 Coupe...produced from about 1965 to 1970.

10th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome?

50 year premonition of UK leaving EU?

Gavarnie

Original Poster:

167 posts

88 months

Sunday 24th January 2021
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33q said:
Fiat 850 Coupe...produced from about 1965 to 1970.

10th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome?

50 year premonition of UK leaving EU?
You got the Fiat model right but the car was by no means new when the photograph was taken...

Turbobanana

8,459 posts

231 months

Sunday 24th January 2021
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Save water campaign in the 1976 drought?

Turbobanana

8,459 posts

231 months

Thursday 28th January 2021
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Gavarnie, you appear to have us stumped.

All I can assume was that the guy wanted a tartan car, and got both.

CanAm

14,041 posts

302 months

Thursday 28th January 2021
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OK, we give in.

hairy v

1,415 posts

174 months

Thursday 28th January 2021
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Single currency 1999?

Turbobanana

8,459 posts

231 months

Friday 29th January 2021
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Rustproofing: "Arrrggghhhhh! It's going to rain! I must get my Italian car under cover to stop it dissolving!"

Dapster

9,534 posts

210 months

Friday 29th January 2021
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Gavarnie said:
I'll be seriously impressed if anyone knows:-

(a) which year this photograph was taken
(b) the EU-wide commercial purpose for which it was taken.

Getting the answer to (b) should help pinpoint the answer to (a). The kilt is actually a red herring.

Is it from Nigel Farage's 1977 school homework project entitled "Why we must leave the EEC"? She's saying "we must leave this autocratic police state as otherwise they'll take away our Allegros make us drive foreign tat like this" and he's saying "if you think that's bad we'll all have to go to work looking like a Victorian dandy in a skirt"

Gavarnie

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167 posts

88 months

Friday 29th January 2021
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All good creative suggestions but not quite there yet.

So the year the photograph was taken is 1994.

The purpose was to feature in the EU-wide dealer launch of a brand new car.

But which car ?

The idea behind the launch campaign and the selection of old cars photographed (I think they used a Karmann Ghia plus another couple of cars) was to present the new model as the spiritual successor to all those fun cars from the 1960s...

LuS1fer

43,523 posts

275 months

Friday 29th January 2021
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TVR Griffith?

Gavarnie

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167 posts

88 months

Friday 29th January 2021
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LuS1fer said:
TVR Griffith?
No, needs to be more affordable than that.

psi310398

11,086 posts

233 months

Friday 29th January 2021
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Alfa GTV/Spider launch? That was around 1994/95 wasn’t it?

Dapster

9,534 posts

210 months

Friday 29th January 2021
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Fiat Barchetta?