Name this car....

[dkCambridgeshire]

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It's got that cod transatlantic Vauxhall Cresta feel about it. They had a rather nice 3.3L straight six in the latter part of their life, which I think was a Holden engine. All you ever had to do was change the oil plus plugs and they would do 300,000 miles if a bit on the thirsty side. I never understood why the police preferred the troublesome Mark 4 Ford Zephyrs (head gaskets, big ends, rear suspension bushes, etc, etc, etc). 

 

Wilson

 

 

Not a Vauxhall and not a Zephyr … Wilson I'm reading a history of British police cars of the 50s and 60s … they used just about every type of British car including Jaguar and Armstrong Siddeley … a fascinating read. 

 

dunk 

[dkCambridgeshire]

I know little of these cars, and have no images, but could it be a Ford Corsair?

 

 

 

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… Correct John … it's a 1967 Ford Corsair 2000E with the V4 1996cc engine 

 

 

If you have a car to post John please go ahead … if not who else has a photo? 

 

 

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dunk 

[dkCambridgeshire]

… and the rear end 

 

 

 

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Photographed at the Stilton Cheese Classic Car Run 23 April 2017 

 

 

dunk 

Edited May 1, 2017 by dkCambridgeshire

[masjah]

Please anyone else go ahead - I don't have any car images. (I remembered this one from cycling by our local Ford dealer in my youth!)

Edited May 1, 2017 by masjah

[wlaidlaw]

Not a Vauxhall and not a Zephyr … Wilson I'm reading a history of British police cars of the 50s and 60s … they used just about every type of British car including Jaguar and Armstrong Siddeley … a fascinating read. 

 

dunk 

 

 

The burglars could have heard the fluid flywheel of the Armstrong Siddeley coming from half a mile away. The headmaster at the school I was at in Haslemere in the late 1950's had an A-S Hurricane 18 Coupé. We could always hear the whine of him coming up the long steep school drive off the Hindhead road and stop whatever nefarious activity we were up to, long before he arrived. 

 

Wilson

[stuny]

Let's try this one - I'll give a much more generous crop if necessary:

 

 

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[Rona!d]

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This snake horn was a famous patented 3rd party supplier gimmick in the old days and you can see it on several cars and even motorcycles.

You could order it in different sizes and materials, even with diamond eyes.

 

From the grille of the car I´d think this could well be a 1911 Lorraine Dietrich open tourer. If so it has a 28 hp 5,7 ltr. 4-cyl. and was an early example with a Cardan-shaft transmission while older Lorraine Dietrichs were chain driven. Wasn´t it the car of Charles Newberry who was a diamond-mining magnate? If so, I don´t understand why he hasn´t installed the luxary version of this horn with real diamond eyes.

[wlaidlaw]

Ronald, 

 

Maybe he did have the real diamonds but the chauffeur had them as a retirement "perk" 

[stuny]

Very good, Rona|d.  This one is in the Franschhoek Motor Museum.  Your turn

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[Rona!d]

Interesting collection there, Stu.

 

And here the next one. Easy to solve for everybody. What a generous crop!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Rona!d]

And another crop.

 

 

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[stuny]

Rear engine?  French?

[Rona!d]

Rear engine?  French?

 

 

Stu,

 

not a french design and not a rear engine.

[wlaidlaw]

Those look like Fiamm exhausts to me so Italian?

[Rona!d]

Yes, Italian, Wilson!

[maximilianm3]

since i have nothing to post i'll just say it's a Maserati.....

[Rona!d]

Maserati indeed. Wasn´t difficult, but now somebody has to say which model to proceed.

[Rona!d]

@ all: Which Maserati is it?

[stuny]

Bora

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Look here: Interesting Leica gear

[Rona!d]

And why not a Merak? Because of my second crop I have sent.

 

If it was a Merak, I´d given you some info about a french-italian connection. So in a way you were right with "French". Construction, design and made was Italian though. When it was planned, Citroen owned Maserati and put some pressure on Maserati to use Citroen SM parts as much as possible while Citroen used the Maserati 6cyl. engine for the SM.

The engines were always Maseratis (6 + 8 cyl.) but the damn hydraulic system and brakes came from Citroen which made especially the early Boras/Meraks strange to break with a very short brake way in the "pedal". Later Maserati switched to conventional brakes. The instruments and other parts also came from Citroen. Early rear lights from Alfa, later ones maybe from the Citroen SM if I recall correctly (or later DeTomasos used SM rear lights).

 

Citroen soon sold Maserati when the sales of the Bora/Merak began in 1972 and Mr. DeTomaso bought the company. Which was propably a problem on the US market, because DeTomaso sold his own cars there and the Maserati Bora had not been distributed for some reasons (technical/safety regulations). The Merak was offered in the US, maybe because it was not a rival of the more powerful DeTomasos?

 

Good Stu, next one please!