stuny Posted January 1, 2012 Share #2741 Posted January 1, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) Andreas - I just remembered one. Manufacturer of this one, please, and for extra points, it's location. 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=1885548'>More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted January 1, 2012 Posted January 1, 2012 Hi stuny, Take a look here Name this car..... I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
elansprint72 Posted January 1, 2012 Author Share #2742 Posted January 1, 2012 Auburn? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted January 1, 2012 Share #2743 Posted January 1, 2012 Happy New Year to you all! Stu, on the first sight without Google I´d be tempted to say this is a Duesenberg J, maybe a 1931 Phaeton model but what do I know, I´m helpless with pre-war US classics. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas.Pichler Posted January 1, 2012 Share #2744 Posted January 1, 2012 Happy new year from my side as well! Interesting crop, Stuart...octagonal "nut" on the spare wheel, but its not an MG, this is sure ;-) Maybe some books on the shelf about "Dream Cars" are more helpful than Google at the moment. Will have a look... Cheers, Andreas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted January 1, 2012 Share #2745 Posted January 1, 2012 (edited) Rona|d - And you claim not to know vintage US cars. The term, "It's a Deussy" (rponounced "doozy"), meaning somehting is exceptional came from this car. It happens to be in a car museum with over 300 cars attached to an older, seedy casino in Las Vegas. Your turn. 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 2, 2012 by stuny 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=1885985'>More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted January 2, 2012 Share #2746 Posted January 2, 2012 Stu, my answer was complete to the first part of your question (brand), no extra points for the location (should be Imperial Collection in Vegas) and only half a point for the model (J) - maybe your crop didn´t show enough details for me idiot. This is not a 1931 Phaeton, but a 1934 Beverly Limousine (J-468) with a very interesting ancestor of the panorama windscreens. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted January 2, 2012 Share #2747 Posted January 2, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) My next riddle is in the last picture of Stu: Which car (maker and model) do we see in his shot under the Canadian flag? The white car right side of the housewives Porsche! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Thompson Posted January 2, 2012 Share #2748 Posted January 2, 2012 Looks like a 1960-64 Chevrolet Monza coupe, Ronald. If memory serves, the Corvair sedan also influenced the styling of a NSU model, Prinz maybe? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted January 2, 2012 Share #2749 Posted January 2, 2012 John, right, Corvair. And also right, maybe it influenced the little NSUs. Both unsafe at any speed with wrong tyre pressure and US trained drivers European people can drive them Your turn! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Thompson Posted January 3, 2012 Share #2750 Posted January 3, 2012 Ronald, you may be somewhat correct in your evaluation of American driving skills back in the sixties (lots of straight roads in many areas), but remember that a rear-engined car with swing axle rear suspension can be a bit of a handful when one has 150-200 horsepower to deal with. Never drove a NSU but did drive 40-50 hp pre 1969 VWs, and those were managable under most circumstances but wet roads were always tricky. Adding an aftermarket camber-compensator spring and good tires made things much less dicey. Will find something to post shortly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted January 3, 2012 Share #2751 Posted January 3, 2012 Ronald, you may be somewhat correct in your evaluation of American driving skills back in the sixties (lots of straight roads in many areas), but remember that a rear-engined car with swing axle rear suspension can be a bit of a handful when one has 150-200 horsepower to deal with. Never drove a NSU but did drive 40-50 hp pre 1969 VWs, and those were managable under most circumstances but wet roads were always tricky. Adding an aftermarket camber-compensator spring and good tires made things much less dicey. Will find something to post shortly. John, you are right with more horsepower, but early Porsches had the same technically based problem. The first Corvairs had them too, later much improoved. To US drivers it was uncommon that the tyre pressure on front and rear axle were completely different, that was one fault, because they put equal pressure on both axles. The other problem was understeering which they were not used to. Later when the Corvairs were improoved the (somehow also doubtful) "unsafe at any speed" campaign already killed the car. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted January 3, 2012 Share #2752 Posted January 3, 2012 (edited) Ron - All US cars of the era, except for the Corvair, understeered (front wheels skid), and were intentionally designed that way since our natural inclination when a car understeers is to slow and/or turn the wheels more in the same direction. Usually one or both activities would get the driver out of trouble. But the Corvair (both generations), like the 356 Porsches, the VWs and the first few generations of 911s oversteered, meaning the rear wheels skid. Without experience and/or training most drivers have no idea what to do with oversteer, and the proper response is not intuitive. None of the Corvairs were all that powerful. If I recall the base engine was 80 HP SAE, the next one up was 110 HP, and the relatively rare turbocharged engine, making 180 HP. SAE HP of the era was seriously overstated vs. BHP and DIN HP. Edited January 3, 2012 by stuny Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted January 3, 2012 Share #2753 Posted January 3, 2012 Stu, "oversteared", sorry (I shouldn´t work and type in foras the same moment:rolleyes:). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Thompson Posted January 3, 2012 Share #2754 Posted January 3, 2012 (edited) Sorry for the delay. Four days ago my computer was stolen along with the backup HD and I lost all my automotive pictures, and others, from June 2009 to the present. And yes, I'm a little more than upset. Here's one from yesterday afternoon. Hint: it doesn't have swing axles. 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 3, 2012 by J_Thompson 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=1887338'>More sharing options...
stuny Posted January 3, 2012 Share #2755 Posted January 3, 2012 The scupting for the headlight appears to be in Fibreglas suggesting a small production or a kit car. The headlight seems to be permanently up, though they might retract in Porsched 928 fashion. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Thompson Posted January 3, 2012 Share #2756 Posted January 3, 2012 Right on all counts, Stuart. Low production, fiberglass body and non-retractable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elansprint72 Posted January 3, 2012 Author Share #2757 Posted January 3, 2012 Not designed by anyone who had sat thro' a late-night aerodynamics class in college then? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas.Pichler Posted January 3, 2012 Share #2758 Posted January 3, 2012 If all my photo archive would have been stolen (which is really a pity, I am with you!), and I would live in L.A., and I would have to produce a photo for the "Name the car" community, I would buy a general admission ticket for "Petersen Automotive Museum" at Wilshire Blvd. Then I would have had a closer look at some leftovers of the "Fantasies in fiberglass" exhibition from 2010, and maybe I would have taken a pic of the Meyers Manx to present it here in the forum. Would you have done the same, John? Cheers, Andreas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Thompson Posted January 3, 2012 Share #2759 Posted January 3, 2012 Pete: Actually I can name less aerodynamic passenger vehicle than this from the same time period. Andreas: Good guess with the Petersen Museum exhibit but this is neither from there nor is it a kit car or a Meyers Manx. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted January 4, 2012 Share #2760 Posted January 4, 2012 If all my photo archive would have been stolen (which is really a pity, I am with you!), and I would live in L.A., and I would have to produce a photo for the "Name the car" community, I would buy a general admission ticket for "Petersen Automotive Museum" at Wilshire Blvd. Then I would have had a closer look at some leftovers of the "Fantasies in fiberglass" exhibition from 2010, and maybe I would have taken a pic of the Meyers Manx to present it here in the forum. Would you have done the same, John? Cheers, Andreas I would visit my neighbour and shoot his late 1960´s or early 1970´s lawn mower Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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