pippy Posted January 5, 2021 Share #14281 Posted January 5, 2021 Advertisement (gone after registration) Makes me want a cup of coffee for some reason... Philip. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted January 5, 2021 Posted January 5, 2021 Hi pippy, Take a look here Name this car..... I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
NigelG Posted January 5, 2021 Share #14282 Posted January 5, 2021 Make it milky.... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted January 5, 2021 Share #14283 Posted January 5, 2021 1992 Suzuki Cappuccino? Wilson 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted January 5, 2021 Share #14284 Posted January 5, 2021 You were all right but only Wilson named the car though. Your turn, Wilson! (not sure if the year 1992 is on spot, they were sold between ´91 and ´98) Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 3 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=4112888'>More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted January 5, 2021 Share #14285 Posted January 5, 2021 (edited) Here is the next one. As usual marque, model and approx year please. Wilson Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Edited January 5, 2021 by wlaidlaw Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=4112918'>More sharing options...
pippy Posted January 5, 2021 Share #14286 Posted January 5, 2021 (edited) Hello Wilson. Is it a circa 2004 / '05 Maserati MC 12? Philip. Edited January 5, 2021 by pippy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted January 5, 2021 Share #14287 Posted January 5, 2021 Advertisement (gone after registration) I'll bet Philip is correct. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted January 5, 2021 Share #14288 Posted January 5, 2021 Well that didn't take long. Yes indeed a Maserati MC12 at the Geneva Motor show in 2005. Taken with my Digilux 2. This is very much set up as a race car and sadly the handling on road tyres of the period was not as good as it might have been, with far too much understeer. Apparently this becomes very much more balanced on slicks. It is of course, a Ferrari Enzo in low drag/high downforce clothes to compete in sports/GT car championship of the period, which it won in 2005? I know someone who bought an ex-demo one in 2006 because it was considerably cheaper than an Enzo, which appreciated rather than depreciated from new. He told me that he then spent more than the difference in price from an Enzo, in trying to sort out the handling. I think he mainly uses it at track days now, on slicks, getting trailered to the circuit. Your turn Philip. Wilson 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted January 5, 2021 Share #14289 Posted January 5, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, wlaidlaw said: ...I know someone who bought an ex-demo one in 2006... Thank you, Wilson. And thank you (and everyone else) who add all these little gems from personal experience which invariably breathe some extra life into these puzzles and make them such a treat to read; very enjoyable and equally informative! Sorry if I cut short the puzzle but I just happen remember the MC12 so very clearly as it impressed me by possessing, visually speaking, even more of a 'Wow!' factor than did the Enzo of the time. Anyhow... I doubt this new item will trouble the gray cells too much but, I fear, the bottom of my paricular barrel of possibilities - car-wise - is within view. Trying to get a crop where this stunner isn't (hopefully!) immediately obvious is tricky - especially with the extremely limited access / viewpoints I had available to me - but it's such a pretty car I quite fancy posting it here for your delectation when the whole is revealed; Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Philip. Edited January 5, 2021 by pippy Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Philip. ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=4113077'>More sharing options...
stuny Posted January 5, 2021 Share #14290 Posted January 5, 2021 My fist thoughts are italian and 1950s, higher end. I cannot think of an Alfa or Ferrari with a scoop like that. Hmmmm. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted January 5, 2021 Share #14291 Posted January 5, 2021 (edited) Hello, Stuart! You are on the right continent, spot-on with the era and correct as far as the target audience is concerned although it hails from neither Milan nor Modena. Philip. Edited January 5, 2021 by pippy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted January 5, 2021 Share #14292 Posted January 5, 2021 If you had two of these you could be very sexist and say: "What a nice pair of......" Wilson 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted January 5, 2021 Share #14293 Posted January 5, 2021 ...nor does it hail from Bristol, Wilson! Philip. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hektor Posted January 5, 2021 Share #14294 Posted January 5, 2021 French I think. But the make/marque escapes me. I can picture the complete car, but not the name. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted January 5, 2021 Share #14295 Posted January 5, 2021 I thought it was a 405. So the alternative might come from Spain, I think. Wilson 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted January 5, 2021 Share #14296 Posted January 5, 2021 (edited) Hello Wilson. If you are thinking it might be a Pegaso then, unfortunately, you are too far south. We're certainly heading in the right direction though and as Hektor suspects it is, in fact, from France. Not easy to find anything 'non-giveaway' so see how we do with this view of such a particularly handsome car as viewed from the front.... Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Philip. Edited January 5, 2021 by pippy Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Philip. ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=4113139'>More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted January 6, 2021 Share #14297 Posted January 6, 2021 I thought this could be a Ford/Simca Comète Monte Carlo but your second image does not match the grille I know from the Comète. Also the door handle does not look "Comète". So maybe another Simca? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted January 6, 2021 Share #14298 Posted January 6, 2021 34 minutes ago, Rona!d said: I thought this could be a Ford/Simca Comète Monte Carlo but your second image does not match the grille I know from the Comète. Also the door handle does not look "Comète". So maybe another Simca? Hello, Ronald. No, not a Simca, but pursuing the 'shooting star' aspect might ultimately prove to be fruitful! Philip. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted January 6, 2021 Share #14299 Posted January 6, 2021 What a tricky crop of the detail ;-) 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted January 6, 2021 Share #14300 Posted January 6, 2021 vor einer Stunde schrieb pippy: Hello, Ronald. No, not a Simca, but pursuing the 'shooting star' aspect might ultimately prove to be fruitful! Philip. I was completely blind for that "shooting star" aspect but there is another coherence. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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