Can you identify this car?
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LRDefender

Original Poster:

696 posts

35 months

Monday 1st January 2024
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I saw this beaut of a car yesterday but I couldn't identify it. The owner was nowhere to be seen either so I couldn't ask them, so I thought I'd ask here for help on identifying it.


thebraketester

15,675 posts

165 months

Monday 1st January 2024
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Pretty sure it's a Prius.

Turbobanana

8,223 posts

228 months

Monday 1st January 2024
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I fear it's probably a Teal replica of a Bugatti Type 35, like this one:

nicanary

11,173 posts

173 months

Monday 1st January 2024
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Seems the Czechs also make Bugatti replicas. This time they add fake exhausts and carb filters.

MDMA .

10,524 posts

128 months

Monday 1st January 2024
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nicanary said:
Seems the Czechs also make Bugatti replicas. This time they add fake exhausts and carb filters.
Interesting with 5 intake filters and 8 exhaust manifolds smile

Turn7

25,553 posts

248 months

Monday 1st January 2024
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MDMA . said:
nicanary said:
Seems the Czechs also make Bugatti replicas. This time they add fake exhausts and carb filters.
Interesting with 5 intake filters and 8 exhaust manifolds smile
yeah, I noticed that......must some replicant.....

larrylamb11

680 posts

278 months

Monday 1st January 2024
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VW Beetle front axle too...

Puddenchucker

5,659 posts

245 months

Turn7

25,553 posts

248 months

Monday 1st January 2024
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Good work !

nismocat

937 posts

35 months

Wednesday 3rd January 2024
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Turn7 said:
Good work !
Finding or producing?

It's awful.

soad

34,495 posts

203 months

Wednesday 3rd January 2024
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nismocat said:
Turn7 said:
Good work !
Finding or producing?

It's awful.
The former, Shirley? wink

LRDefender

Original Poster:

696 posts

35 months

Wednesday 3rd January 2024
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Puddenchucker said:
That’s remarkable detective skills Pudden, very impressive!

blueg33

45,809 posts

251 months

Wednesday 3rd January 2024
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According to the ad it’s done a million miles. With a beetle engine and an auto box that is one heck of a masochistic owner!

LRDefender

Original Poster:

696 posts

35 months

Wednesday 3rd January 2024
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blueg33 said:
According to the ad it’s done a million miles. With a beetle engine and an auto box that is one heck of a masochistic owner!
Especially if we take into account the ad claims its a U.K. car that was up for sale in Nebraska and now resides in Tbilisi..!!

CanAm

13,659 posts

299 months

Wednesday 3rd January 2024
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blueg33 said:
According to the ad it’s done a million miles. With a beetle engine and an auto box that is one heck of a masochistic owner!
The full description in the ad says "mileage unknown" so they put 999,999 in the header.

blueg33

45,809 posts

251 months

Wednesday 3rd January 2024
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CanAm said:
blueg33 said:
According to the ad it’s done a million miles. With a beetle engine and an auto box that is one heck of a masochistic owner!
The full description in the ad says "mileage unknown" so they put 999,999 in the header.
I know - but thats boring!

CKY

2,268 posts

42 months

Wednesday 3rd January 2024
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LRDefender said:
I saw this beaut of a car yesterday
Username checks out.

AmyRichardson

1,944 posts

69 months

Wednesday 3rd January 2024
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nismocat said:
Finding or producing?

It's awful.
Yep, I had the pleasure of looking over a 51 & a 44 at the WE and the elegant, uncompromising construction of those brings home the horror of something like this!

underwhelmist

2,026 posts

161 months

Thursday 4th January 2024
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LRDefender said:
I saw this beaut of a car yesterday but I couldn't identify it. The owner was nowhere to be seen either so I couldn't ask them, so I thought I'd ask here for help on identifying it.

Never mind the fake Bugatti, just look at that Lada in the background! Phwooar.

LRDefender

Original Poster:

696 posts

35 months

Thursday 4th January 2024
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underwhelmist said:
LRDefender said:
I saw this beaut of a car yesterday but I couldn't identify it. The owner was nowhere to be seen either so I couldn't ask them, so I thought I'd ask here for help on identifying it.

Never mind the fake Bugatti, just look at that Lada in the background! Phwooar.
There are surprisingly few Lada's on the road here but in Armenia they're everywhere. One of the biggest industries here is repairing smashed up cars, probably sourced from all over western Europe, so you see many cars driving around with missing body panels or smashed up front/back ends.

A few interesting ex-Soviet cars knocking around too....