hektor Posted April 25, 2022 Share #17361 Posted April 25, 2022 Advertisement (gone after registration) 4 hours ago, wlaidlaw said: The wood looks a bit like that on a ghastly Lincoln Town car that Avis supplied, when I had tyre problems (lack of tread) on the rather nice Infiniti G37 coupé I had hired. Avis would not allow me to have two new back tyres fitted, so instead sent the replacement up on a trailer, a 10 hour round trip for their towing contractor to go from Albany, NY to northern New Hampshire where we were staying. Seemed very odd economics to me. Wilson Regarding the strange economics of car rental companies, a few years ago we (wife, two children and yours truly) caught the TGV from Paris to Avignon where we hired a car from Hertz. After a family reunion nearby for a couple of weeks, headed north on the road to Geneva on which I clipped the kerb to avoid an overtaking motor-bike coming towards us. The rim of one wheel was damaged so after depositing the family in an hotel on Lake Geneva went to the Hertz office to obtain a replacement spare wheel. Unable to do so they provided a replacement car and said the existing car would be crushed! It had from memory about 600 kms on the clock. As the Americans say "Go figure". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Rona!d Posted April 26, 2022 Share #17362 Posted April 26, 2022 vor 7 Stunden schrieb hektor: Unable to do so they provided a replacement car and said the existing car would be crushed! It had from memory about 600 kms on the clock. As the Americans say "Go figure". Today they even replace the cars by new ones when they are running out of the 5ltr. gas factory fill or the air pressure in the tyres gets too low 😉 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted April 26, 2022 Share #17363 Posted April 26, 2022 I suspect there are a number of "fiddles" going on behind the scene. We got sent an additional bill of $110 for driving through a turnpike toll payment station without paying (we had actually borrowed my son-in-law's father's EZ Pass and for the few toll gates we passed through, were always very careful to choose the EZ Pass lane) . I demanded to see the photo identifying our car and clearly showing the tag. We received an image that was so badly photoshopped that it was a joke and the Mustang shown was a coupé not a convertible like we had hired. I sent it to Dollar head office asking them to investigate what was obviously a fraudulent scheme at the Baltimore Airport depot, set up to rip off overseas visitors. I never heard anything more about the extra charge nor the results of any investigation (I suspect there was none). Wilson 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
adan Posted April 27, 2022 Share #17364 Posted April 27, 2022 Need a hint? 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=4425590'>More sharing options...
stuny Posted April 27, 2022 Share #17365 Posted April 27, 2022 Buick Riviera, 1st generation? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Z. Goriup Posted April 28, 2022 Share #17366 Posted April 28, 2022 1975 Chevrolet Monte Carlo - the engraving was not a factory option. JZG Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
adan Posted April 28, 2022 Share #17367 Posted April 28, 2022 Advertisement (gone after registration) Exactly and precisely - and a Landau. Here with the builder/owner/driver and Club President (Avenue Angels Lowriders, Denver) - and her backup wheels. 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=4425825'>More sharing options...
John Z. Goriup Posted April 28, 2022 Share #17368 Posted April 28, 2022 Let's try this one as the next riddle car. The usual information - year make and model, please. Just got my iMac back from the repair shop after the original hard drive failed and was replaced with a new 'Crucial' hard drive. I was using the old Lightroom 5 version on a disc I have owned forever, but after the repair had to finally succumb to installing the 'monthly lease' Photoshop / Lightroom Classic program, since LR 5 is no longer compatible with the latest Apple software...... still learning the new processing software. 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! 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=4425962'>More sharing options...
stuny Posted April 28, 2022 Share #17369 Posted April 28, 2022 It looks quite small. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted April 28, 2022 Share #17370 Posted April 28, 2022 yota-hachi built at Kanto between ´65 and ´69 (debuted in 1962). Has another more common name, that somebody else can throw in. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted April 29, 2022 Share #17371 Posted April 29, 2022 It was pretty unsuccessful compared with its Honda Cousin the S600 and later S800, because it was desperately underpowered. According to my book the original version had a miserable 28 PS, albeit eventually raised to 45 PS. The S600 had 57 PS and the S800 70 PS. A friend used to hill climb a full race, fuel injected S800 in mainland Europe, where at the time, the 105 dB (110dB for "historic" cars) noise limit, strictly enforced in the UK, was ignored. He said you could see people clapping their hands over their ears as it approached. Wilson 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Z. Goriup Posted April 29, 2022 Share #17372 Posted April 29, 2022 yota - hatchi ( yota -short for 'Toyota' in japanese, and hatchi - japanese for 'eight' ) is correct. It's a left-hand drive specimen of Toyota's first sports cars, a Toyota Sport 800. Small, light, nimble, powered by a 796cc two-cylinder air-cooled motor driving the rear wheels, designed by an aircraft engineer. 40 or so were imported into the United States, with the dealership organization unanimously deciding it wouldn't sell here, therefore the factory decided to simply leave them and let the dealers do with them as they liked. This is a restored example of one of those 40 cars displayed at the Carmel-by-the-Sea Concours a few years ago, and the first & only one of these I have actually seen in the metal. Ronald, you're up. Leica M240-P / 35mm Summilux FLE 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! 7 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=4426502'>More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted May 1, 2022 Share #17373 Posted May 1, 2022 John, thanks for that interesting first attempt of Toyota building a serial made sportscar. The follow up was one of the most iconic Japanese cars ever. And here the next one: 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=4427683'>More sharing options...
NigelG Posted May 1, 2022 Share #17374 Posted May 1, 2022 I know the rear door shape is wrong but those “parts bin” door handles are giving me scary Austin Allegro 1970s flashbacks… 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham (G4FUJ) Posted May 2, 2022 Share #17375 Posted May 2, 2022 Weren't they also used on the Austin Princess? They were on the Austin Maxi, but again door shape doesn't look right for that model. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted May 2, 2022 Share #17376 Posted May 2, 2022 As you both suspect it is not an Austin. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
a.j.z Posted May 2, 2022 Share #17377 Posted May 2, 2022 CITROEN? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted May 2, 2022 Share #17378 Posted May 2, 2022 vor 8 Minuten schrieb a.j.z: CITROEN? Sorry, not. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted May 2, 2022 Share #17379 Posted May 2, 2022 3 hours ago, Graham (G4FUJ) said: Weren't they also used on the Austin Princess? They were on the Austin Maxi, but again door shape doesn't look right for that model. A very similar handle was also used on many Lotus models, for which I hang my head in shame - it was I. Lotus was getting lots of warranty claims on their door handles, which were made from chromed Zamak (Zinc-Aluminium diecasting alloy) in Italy. When the leaky doors froze shut and the Zamak had become nice and brittle, if you heaved even slightly at the door handle they would snap off. I sourced from British Leyland 13,000 sets of these Wilmot Breeden door handles, where BL had massively over-estimated the sales of the Allegro, Maxi and Marina. From memory, I paid around £0.10 per set, which Fred Bushell (the Lotus CFO) thought was absolutely marvellous, as the Italian door handles cost over £1 each. That was in 1970 and I think Lotus was still using them 15 years later, to much adverse comment from the likes of Motor and Autocar. 😆 The handles were an early production use of polycarbonate and were very tough. Polycarbonate can also be chromed by vacuum deposition. Wilson 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelG Posted May 2, 2022 Share #17380 Posted May 2, 2022 Could we be looking at an early 1970s AMC? They definitely used similar handles… Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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