wlaidlaw Posted December 1, 2021 Share #16521 Posted December 1, 2021 Advertisement (gone after registration) Stuart, I think I have previously posted pictures of the 1935 Zagato le Mans bodied Alfa Romeo 8C2600 Corsa, which is by some margin my favourite pre-war car. I am not sure I have any pictures of the other one. It is a fuel injected Dino 246 GTS, using part of the later 308 fuel injection system. It was converted by Moto Technique in London and gives a genuine 225BHP on a dyno. There is a small picture of it on Moto Technique website, as the one repainted in Candy Apple Red. Wilson 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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adan Posted December 1, 2021 Share #16522 Posted December 1, 2021 12 hours ago, hektor said: As there have not been any suggestions to the last mystery car, see if this helps: Let's narrow it down a bit as to make and date - 1907 FIAT 28/40HP. Possibly the one used in the 1907 Peking(Beijing)-to-Paris race Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hektor Posted December 1, 2021 Share #16523 Posted December 1, 2021 3 minutes ago, adan said: Let's narrow it down a bit as to make and date - 1907 FIAT 28/40HP. Possibly the one used in the 1907 Peking(Beijing)-to-Paris race Not a FIAT of any type. Wilson, post the answer please. If you don't have a photo I will post for you. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted December 1, 2021 Share #16524 Posted December 1, 2021 (edited) It is the 1907 Itala 35/45 HP (7.4L), which competed and won by three weeks, the 1907 Peking to Paris driven by Count Scipione Borghese. It currently lives in the National Auto Museum in Turin but unlike most museum exhibits (The French one in Mulhouse, who are just allowing their exhibits to seize and die) is frequently taken out for exercise and takes part in many rallies. It does however sound like a paraffin tractor 😀. Interestingly Itala, many years before the Quattro was a gleam in Audi's eye, had a 5 cylinder 14 litre race car in 1905. Wilson Edited December 1, 2021 by wlaidlaw 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hektor Posted December 1, 2021 Share #16525 Posted December 1, 2021 (edited) Thank-you Wilson. I assume Adan had never heard of Itala. I should post an Allday & Onions!!! More informative that I would have been. I went to Beijing to see the start of the race and a little of China. Will post a photo on your behalf in due course. Edited December 1, 2021 by hektor Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hektor Posted December 2, 2021 Share #16526 Posted December 2, 2021 Apologies for the delay. Big day yesterday. 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! 1 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=4324843'>More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted December 2, 2021 Share #16527 Posted December 2, 2021 Advertisement (gone after registration) Baroque Angels 😀 Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hektor Posted December 2, 2021 Share #16528 Posted December 2, 2021 Nein. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Z. Goriup Posted December 2, 2021 Share #16529 Posted December 2, 2021 Looks like a M-B 300 S Adenauer sedan. JZG Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hektor Posted December 2, 2021 Share #16530 Posted December 2, 2021 Correct John, although not an "S" which was the coupé variant. Will post the full photograph after work. In the meantime you can come up with the next challenge. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Z. Goriup Posted December 3, 2021 Share #16531 Posted December 3, 2021 Thanks, hector.The next 'mystery' car - country of manufacture, approx. year and model if you will, please. JZG 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! 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=4325410'>More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted December 3, 2021 Share #16532 Posted December 3, 2021 Maybe one of the Harley Earl dream cars? Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
a.j.z Posted December 3, 2021 Share #16533 Posted December 3, 2021 I thought about Colani, but Wilson appears to be closer (never heard about Harley Earl before - fascinating). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
adan Posted December 3, 2021 Share #16534 Posted December 3, 2021 Wilson, I believe you are Slightly Right, 2wice. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hektor Posted December 3, 2021 Share #16535 Posted December 3, 2021 (edited) 22 hours ago, hektor said: Correct John, although not an "S" which was the coupé variant. Will post the full photograph after work. In the meantime you can come up with the next challenge. Did not note whether an a, b or c. 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 December 3, 2021 by hektor 1 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=4325599'>More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted December 3, 2021 Share #16536 Posted December 3, 2021 If offered the choice between an Adenauer and a Baroque Angel (501/502), I wonder which one I might have picked. I suspect the Mercedes would have been more reliable than the BMW. I used to have a Prameta wind up chrome plated Mercedes 300 with three speed and reverse gearbox and automatic steering, which rather like a modern Tesla, kept crashing into things. It was wound up with a traffic policeman. My brother had the rather smarter Jaguar XK120 Prameta in metallic blue. Unfortunately like so much else, they were thrown away by my mother during a house move. Wilson 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hektor Posted December 3, 2021 Share #16537 Posted December 3, 2021 In the seventies a friend started collecting model cars. I was surprised at the prices so visited my parents assuming I had a fortune in boxes under my former bed. In the intervening years my mother had given my Dinky and Prameta cars to charity! As to whether a 501 or W186, my only experience is of the latter. In the fifties I was a passenger a number of times on trips between Sydney and Brisbane when the roads were worse than they are now. The W186 was certainly more comfortable than the Silver Cloud which bounced around due to its solid rear axle. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted December 3, 2021 Share #16538 Posted December 3, 2021 I still have the Schuco W25 Mercedes, that I was given aged around 9, including the original box and the tool kit. I sent it off to be repainted by a toy restoration expert and to have a new rubber band put on the push down and pull back wind up wheel. I think he must have been colour blind, as it came back beautifully repainted in French blue rather than the soft green of the original paint 😗. All my dinky toys were given away as well but the worst one was that my father's nearly unused and mint, boxed Bulls-eye Contarex with 55/1.4 lens (his 60th birthday present from the family), was put in the dustbin, after nobody bought it at the church jumble sale it was sent to - grrrrrrrr! Wilson 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hektor Posted December 4, 2021 Share #16539 Posted December 4, 2021 Talking about treasures disappearing. On returning from the 14-18 War my grandfather bought a second hand Stutz Bearcat. In the fullness of time it was replaced and the Stutz pushed in to the sand-dunes on the coast of Queensland. For many years since men with metal detectors have been scouring the area. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted December 4, 2021 Share #16540 Posted December 4, 2021 Ouch, Wilson. I have kept most of my Matchbox, Siku, Gama, Kellermann CKO cars, some 1960s Dinky too. Maybe 200+ but many "very used". My 1950´s-1970s Wiking cars look better as I haven´t "played" with them. What I miss is the golden/copper colored tin W111 Cabrio my grandpa got from the MB dealer when he ordered his W111 Cabriolet. That was a tiny bit smaller than 1:18 scale, friction powered and steering wheel worked. It was from Huki (Hubert Kienberger, Nuremburg). Back in the days I should have insisted that "only playing with it" isn´t enough for me 😉 Dad also missed his W25 Schuco so one Christmas in the 1980s he got the Schuco "repro" car. Have to ask where that is buried now. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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