Help identifying a strange little car

[L100NYY]

Skoda 1200 is very similar but with too many doors -

[vixen1700]

Thought this would have been solved by now.

[smele]

I'm surprised that it got as far as the 3rd set of pages without being identified.

Spotted an old 1950's Ferrari this morning, 250 Europa. Found that quickly with the internet.

[ReaderScars]

Has it been in an accident? There seems to be some distortion to the rear quarter and if I'm not mistaken, the front bumper isn't where it should be?

Maybe that's why ID'ing it is problematic, taking into account the close proximity to the car in front, kind of blending in through parallax?

[skyrocket13]

Wild guess, I can see the rear bumper hanging down, front has been in an accident. I can see a line on the C pillar, might be smaller than it looks, i.e the rear window too.

There is a model called a Peugeot 403 Coupe Henri Chapron, I believe is a special converted from a cabriolet. Not even sure how many were produced.

Looks like this:

[FourWheelDrift]

I've fiddled a bit with the image a bit more, taken the brightness down as well to try and separate the lines from the background more. Can't do too much more as I don't have my CSI machine with me or I would zoom into the reflection in the window and read the badge.

[onemorelap]

Simca of some description??

[Foppo]

Could it be one of the earlier rear engine VW? It looks similar than the Karmann Ghia.

[BoRED S2upid]

Auto Union (DKW)? similar rear covered wheel and slanty headlights. I can't find a picture to match so just putting it out there.

[iloveboost]

I think it's a Simca Aronde Coupe De Ville:
http://www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/...
With the following problems from crash damage:
Rear bumper slightly misaligned (not dragging on ground was just bright spot mixed with rear exhaust hanging down) and rear end creased.
Front bumper near to us pushed right up and headlight popped out resting on it.
Grille damaged.
Bonnet slightly popped up away from us and still attached near to us.
Better photo from French forum where they also weren't sure what it was but guessed a Simca or Panhard:
http://images.forum-auto.com/mesimages/153698/img1...

Edited by iloveboost on Thursday 26th June 13:28

[vixen1700]

iloveboost said:

I think it's a Simca Aronde Coupe De Ville:
http://www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/...
With the following problems from crash damage:
Rear bumper slightly misaligned (not dragging on ground was just bright spot mixed with rear exhaust hanging down) and rear end creased.
Front bumper near to us pushed right up and headlight popped out resting on it.
Grille damaged.
Bonnet slightly popped up away from us and still attached near to us.
Better photo from French forum where they also weren't sure what it was but guessed a Simca or Panhard:
http://images.forum-auto.com/mesimages/153698/img1...

Thought that earlier too, but the rear roof line is so different.

[HereBeMonsters]

skyrocket13 said:

Wild guess, I can see the rear bumper hanging down, front has been in an accident. I can see a line on the C pillar, might be smaller than it looks, i.e the rear window too.

There is a model called a Peugeot 403 Coupe Henri Chapron, I believe is a special converted from a cabriolet. Not even sure how many were produced.

Looks like this:

I was coming on here to post that very car. Peugeot beards ftw.

[dbdb]

ash73 said:

Can't find anything closer than the Pug, but slightly O/T... I fell in love with this pic when I saw it

Me too, now I have seen it. Lovely!

[harry miller]

I think it could be a Fiat 1100ES from around 1950.

http://www.zuckerfabrik24.de/fiat/pics/1100ES_1a.j...

[Mr2Mike]

HereBeMonsters said:

I was coming on here to post that very car. Peugeot beards ftw.

It's substantially different to the car in the OP's pic though? The roof line in the OP pic goes almost to the very back of the car, there's no huge boot sticking out of the end.

[Snowboy]

harry miller said:

I think it could be a Fiat 1100ES from around 1950.

http://www.zuckerfabrik24.de/fiat/pics/1100ES_1a.j...

I think you might be right.
But with a crashed front end.

[FourWheelDrift]

skyrocket13 said:

Wild guess, I can see the rear bumper hanging down

That's the exhaust.

[Ali_T]

Has a hint of Abarth 1300 about it, but the picture looks too old for the late 60s.

[smele]

harry miller said:

I think it could be a Fiat 1100ES from around 1950.

http://www.zuckerfabrik24.de/fiat/pics/1100ES_1a.j...

Close, but the gap between the front wheels and the front bumper is very different.

[craig_m67]

...and the front wheels and the a pillar is too short . Bloody similar though