Name this car....

[gmo]

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Pip,

 

 that's it  full pictures here

 

 

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Over to you

Gerd

 

[christoph_d]

Looks good, pity they did not build it ...

 

Rgds & Thx

 

C.

[ramarren]

Ah... a one-off....

 

Alfa Romeo 2600C Pininfarina.

 

Pip..

 

 

Wow, now that's an Alfa Romeo I've never seen or heard of before. The front end and particularly the headlamp treatment is strikingly similar to the Jarama of about 1975ish vintage. Quite the one-off to see! 

[wlaidlaw]

The Alfa 2600 Sprint was probably not quite a good enough chassis to make a saleable proposition with that expensive body, plus Alfa may well have had a contract with Bertone and Touring, who assembled the 2600 Coupé and Spider respectively. There was already an expensive but very pretty Zagato bodied 2600. My brother had the Bertone Sprint Coupé in the late 1960's, which I drove a fair bit. It was not as quick as you might think and the handling was rather ponderous. The engine was supposed to make 145 horse power but they felt like Italian shetland ponies rather than British or German cart horses. 

[ramarren]

My understanding was that all of the Alfa Romeo 2000 and 2600 cars of the early 1960s were primarily designed for smoothness, ride quality, and luxury rather than power and handling. I've only driven one or two of them, owned by friends, but their feel seemed to bear that out. 

[Manoleica]

The Alfa Sud (UK) was a great handling car, drivers seating position was somewhat unorthodox, the engine was great when kept on cam" -- bodies rusted away with an urgency...   

[wlaidlaw]

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Rust was a huge problem with Alfas. I have had various ones over the years (I must be a masochist). In 1975 I had a 1.8 Alfetta Berlina. If you listened carefully, you could hear the tin worms munching away the bodywork. Within 6 months from new, it had holes right through the bodywork, which I was told were not covered by the warranty. I believe that part of the problem, was that most Italian steel in the 60's and 70's was made with a very percentage of recycled scrap, which was not treated for long enough in the reverberatory furnaces due to high energy costs and had therefore, a lot of inclusions in it. These act as starter points for rust. A lot of British cars of the same era were not a lot better either, including the Rolls Royce Silver Shadows. 

 

Wilson

 

Alfasud Coupé ripe for restoration????

 

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[masjah]

Marilyn and I lived and worked in Zimbabwe from mid 82 to mid 84. There were quite a few Alfa Suds there (I think built locally from imported kits, which would include the same body panels). There were many very ancient cars in Zimbabwe, as a result of the earlier UDI sanctions era, but also because the climate there was naturally conducive to the avoidance of rust. Even so, the Alfa Suds rotted.

[pippy]

Absolutely beautiful Alfa!

 

OK, I'm new to this game so hopefully I don't make it too easy nor too difficult.

 

Here's one from the Goodwood Aircooled day back in around 2002.

I'll give you most of the beast - just cropping out the name on the front.

Excuse the really crap scan.

 

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Pip.

 

 

[wlaidlaw]

GN?

 

Wilson

[pippy]

Ah, far too easy, obviously!

Well done, Wilson.

 

For a bonus point can you guess which? It had one VERY famous driver in its heyday.

 

And I had a brainfart as regards the location; it's Brooklands, not Goodwood. Not that it put you off!

[wlaidlaw]

I think they had TWO famous drivers in its heyday: Archie Frazer Nash and Basil Davenport. A school friend's father, Alistair Cormack, who had been a driver at Brooklands in the 1930's, mostly in various Godfrey Taylor Altas, used to sing a song, as he was collecting us from school in Edinburgh for Sunday lunch. It went something like:

 

Archie and H.R. hated cogs

So built a car with chains and dogs

It worked quite well but would it if....

They had graced it with a diff. 

 

to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. 

 

I remember AFN's car was called Mowgli after the jungle book but cannot remember what Davenport's car was called. Some mad fool has grafted two aero engine air cooled cylinders onto an Edwardian Riley V twin engine bottom end and fitted it into a GN. I think it is over 4 litres. Knowing how the 2 litre V twin vibrates in my Morgan 3 wheeler, I would assume you would have to drive that GN with a piece of rubber between your teeth. I will search for a new image. 

 

Wilson

[pippy]

Great story, Wilson!

 

The car above was named 'Kim II'.

Apparently Archie F-N and his chums won somewhere over 100 races in the contraption!

 

Here's the whole frame plus another showing those less familiar with the species quite how 'narrow gutted' the thing is.

There is no footbrake; retardation is all down to pulling on one of those spindly little levers on the outside...

 

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Apologies one again for the scans. No idea what's going on there.

My film-scanner is clearly destined to be on it's way to the retirement home...

 

Take it away, Wilson!

 

Pip.

Edited April 27, 2016 by pippy

[stuny]

Wiilson?

[dkCambridgeshire]

I think they had TWO famous drivers in its heyday: Archie Frazer Nash and Basil Davenport. A school friend's father, Alistair Cormack, who had been a driver at Brooklands in the 1930's, mostly in various Godfrey Taylor Altas, used to sing a song, as he was collecting us from school in Edinburgh for Sunday lunch. It went something like:

 

Archie and H.R. hated cogs

So built a car with chains and dogs

It worked quite well but would it if....

They had graced it with a diff. 

 

to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. 

 

I remember AFN's car was called Mowgli after the jungle book but cannot remember what Davenport's car was called. Some mad fool has grafted two aero engine air cooled cylinders onto an Edwardian Riley V twin engine bottom end and fitted it into a GN. I think it is over 4 litres. Knowing how the 2 litre V twin vibrates in my Morgan 3 wheeler, I would assume you would have to drive that GN with a piece of rubber between your teeth. I will search for a new image. 

 

Wilson

 

 

One of their V twin 1087cc engines was called Akela and used in a hill cllmb car called Kim - which was also entered in events as a Frazer Nash - prior to building the 4 cylinder Frazer Nash. 

 

dunk

[wlaidlaw]

I don't know what has happened I posted a picture a week ago, which seems to have disappeared. I was wondering why nobody had a go. It is rather different. I want to know what this was originally. I think you can just make it out. 

 

Wilson

 

 

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[Manoleica]

Mini Mog variant?

[wlaidlaw]

Much older

[gmo]

CMP truck ?

 

Gerd

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[wlaidlaw]

CMP truck ?

 

Gerd

 

Gerd,

 

Correct. A WW2 Canadian Military Pattern Chevrolet Truck, now converted into a Bus used by one of the hot air ballooning companies working in Bagan, Myanmar. By the sound it made, it was still running the original or at least an original 6 cylinder gasoline engine (if it had sounded like a V8, it would probably have been a Ford made truck). The four wheel drive front axle had been replaced with a lower maintenance dead beam axle. I did not think it would be too difficult, as that is a very distinctive front shape. We saw a few WW2 trucks still in use but most had had a later diesel engine transplants. Most of these were Diamond T Wreckers, still being used as recovery trucks. Says a lot about how well they were built in the first place

 

Here is a picture of the bus and one of what it would have looked like originally. 

 

Your turn

 

Wilson

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