NigelG Posted January 3, 2019 Share #11761 Posted January 3, 2019 Advertisement (gone after registration) Easy if you know it otherwise..... PS the clue is at the top of the frame! 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=3657696'>More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted January 3, 2019 Share #11762 Posted January 3, 2019 (edited) Voisin Aerosport C28 with parallel opening doors, although I have never seen one in red. Wilson Edited January 3, 2019 by wlaidlaw Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted January 3, 2019 Share #11763 Posted January 3, 2019 Nigel - The car next to the sleeper car is a 1976 Purvis Eureka. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelG Posted January 3, 2019 Share #11764 Posted January 3, 2019 1 hour ago, wlaidlaw said: Voisin Aerosport C28 with parallel opening doors, although I have never seen one in red. Wilson Not so old and much less rare (though many are not altogether original). Often seen in white. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelG Posted January 3, 2019 Share #11765 Posted January 3, 2019 35 minutes ago, stuny said: Nigel - The car next to the sleeper car is a 1976 Purvis Eureka. I’m not sure about that - I think the other white car further over looks like a Purvis.... The one immediately adjacent looks more like a prop car. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted January 8, 2019 Share #11766 Posted January 8, 2019 Nigel - I think we need a hint or a broader crop, or both. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelG Posted January 8, 2019 Share #11767 Posted January 8, 2019 Advertisement (gone after registration) Coming up - sorry got distracted from this thread..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelG Posted January 8, 2019 Share #11768 Posted January 8, 2019 (edited) 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! Clue - that's it closed..... Edited January 8, 2019 by NigelG Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Clue - that's it closed..... ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=3660814'>More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted January 8, 2019 Share #11769 Posted January 8, 2019 Either a Steyr-Puch 650 TR or Abarth 595SS (basically the same car - Fiat 500 based) ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelG Posted January 8, 2019 Share #11770 Posted January 8, 2019 Well a 695 but I think only an "evocazione".....the hubs etc and some details look wrong. Still handy for the London backstreets. 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=3660837'>More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted January 8, 2019 Share #11771 Posted January 8, 2019 Rather like Cobras, I suspect there are more "evocaziones" and out and out fakes with a bog standard Fiat 500 engine in them than there are original cars. I was very keen to have one back in the mid 1960's but ended up with a 1650 Cosworth-Ford-Anglia (ex Martin Birrane) instead. My wife's car at the moment is a modern 595SS, which is a great fun car and it is amazing that Fiat with Ferrari's assistance, have managed to build a 1400 16 valve Turbo engine making 160 BHP, with less turbo lag than my 997 3.6L Porsche Turbo S had. I will find another car tomorrow. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelG Posted January 8, 2019 Share #11772 Posted January 8, 2019 (edited) My guy who looks after my Bristol races a Fiat Abarth 850TC - with the front-mounted radiator and where the engine “cover” is virtually horizontal. I have a hankering for the new 695 Biposto with the dog ring 5 speed box (but a gloriously silly mint original Clio V6 series 1 is also calling.....the “Renault” that TWR built in Sweden) Edited January 8, 2019 by NigelG Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted January 8, 2019 Share #11773 Posted January 8, 2019 Nigel, If you have a hankering for the V6 Clio, you must like going through hedges backwards. They are as tail happy as an early short wheelbase 911 and as an past-owner of a 1967 SWB 911ST, that is not something I would care to drive nowadays. My 1977 3.3L 911 RSR is a far tamer car. The new 695 Biposto is I think, silly money, I assume due to the sequential box. I drove one of the Supercharged V8 Caterham Sevens a couple of years ago with an X-Trac sequential box. I had a sore neck for a couple of days afterwards from the violence of the gear-changes 😮 Wilson 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted January 9, 2019 Share #11774 Posted January 9, 2019 Wilson - Before reading further I though your sore neck may have been caused by continually having to look up from the 7's low point of view. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted January 9, 2019 Share #11775 Posted January 9, 2019 Stuart, This was a demo day by the Caterham importer for France at the Paul Ricard circuit. I don't think any of us really liked the supercharged 2.6L V8 model very much, apart from its price of over £100,000. I thought the nicest one was the R500 with the Turbo version of the Cosworth CSR engine, producing around 450 BHP but masses of torque as well and of course, it is less than half the price of the V8. The Quaife sequential box on the R500 was far nicer than the X-Trac one on the V8, which we felt was a pure track transmission. It was so violent, that I am sure it would break the drive shafts before too long and on a wet track, would send the car skittering sideways at each gear change. Maybe it was not set up correctly and of course having to wear helmets did not help with neck loads. I have been volunteered for a one hour charity kart race at Thruxton next week. These are pretty quick 390cc karts with fat slicks on them and on the long circuit. I am not at all sure my neck is up to the task 😫 Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelG Posted January 9, 2019 Share #11776 Posted January 9, 2019 17 hours ago, wlaidlaw said: Nigel, If you have a hankering for the V6 Clio, you must like going through hedges backwards. They are as tail happy as an early short wheelbase 911 and as an past-owner of a 1967 SWB 911ST, that is not something I would care to drive nowadays. My 1977 3.3L 911 RSR is a far tamer car. The new 695 Biposto is I think, silly money, I assume due to the sequential box. I drove one of the Supercharged V8 Caterham Sevens a couple of years ago with an X-Trac sequential box. I had a sore neck for a couple of days afterwards from the violence of the gear-changes 😮 Wilson Wilson Yes - I think the V6 has a tendency to try to revert to its original engine-in-front orientation when used “enthusiastically”. My main problem with them however is once inside you can only see the horrid cheap grey plastic interior and not the humourous external lines - a kind of Eiffel Tower view jibe in reverse. Re the Biposto it’s rare to hear a Leicaiste considering value-for-money 🤔 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted January 9, 2019 Share #11777 Posted January 9, 2019 Here is your next one. This is taken from one of my father's photo albums. He was looking to replace his Mercedes 220 SEC, which had never been right after a drunk driver rammed it when it was just 10 days old and did £2000 worth of damage in 1961 money. My father was keen to get a Lancia Flavia Coupé. A dealer in Perth, Scotland from whom he had bought cars before, was advertising an ex-demo one, so we arranged to go down and see it. When we got there, we found it had been sold and nobody had bothered to tell my father before we drove the 100+ miles to Perth. They tried to persuade him to buy this car instead. He was very far from impressed with this car and ended up buying a new Ruddspeed Volvo 121 Coupé instead, from the Volvo dealer in Aberdeen. The photo would have been taken with my great uncle's Model III and Hektor, (which I still have) as my father nearly always kept B&W in the III and Kodachrome in his IIIa. It was only a 4" x 6" print, so quality by the time I cropped it, is not great. The Hektor needed a lot of TLC when I had it and the Model III rebuilt two years ago. I believe my great uncle had a habit of cleaning the lens with his tweed tie, so the front element looked well scrubbed. 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! 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=3661810'>More sharing options...
hektor Posted January 9, 2019 Share #11778 Posted January 9, 2019 12 minutes ago, wlaidlaw said: Here is your next one. This is taken from one of my father's photo albums. He was looking to replace his Mercedes 220 SEC, which had never been right after a drunk driver rammed it when it was just 10 days old and did £2000 worth of damage in 1961 money. My father was keen to get a Lancia Flavia Coupé. A dealer in Perth, Scotland from whom he had bought cars before, was advertising an ex-demo one, so we arranged to go down and see it. When we got there, we found it had been sold and nobody had bothered to tell my father before we drove the 100+ miles to Perth. They tried to persuade him to buy this car instead. He was very far from impressed with this car and ended up buying a new Ruddspeed Volvo 121 Coupé instead, from the Volvo dealer in Aberdeen. The photo would have been taken with my great uncle's Model III and Hektor, (which I still have) as my father nearly always kept B&W in the III and Kodachrome in his IIIa. It was only a 4" x 6" print, so quality by the time I cropped it, is not great. The Hektor needed a lot of TLC when I had it and the Model III rebuilt two years ago. I believe my great uncle had a habit of cleaning the lens with his tweed tie, so the front element looked well scrubbed. Wilson Wilson, Your remarks about the Hektor reminded me of what a good lens it was/is. I have three, all in mint condition. The chrome mount one was coated sometime in its life; another came out of a wardrobe in Berlin after the first owner didn't return from "the war". In my experience, shared by Erwin Puts, it is a better lens than the Elmar. Here is a shot taken with the chrome coated Hektor on Maco PO 100c film of an Alfa similar to one of mine: 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=3661820'>More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted January 9, 2019 Share #11779 Posted January 9, 2019 Given that the Hektor was over double the price of the Elmar in 1931, you would have been desperately disappointed if it was not a fair bit better than the Elmar. I have not really used it since it came back from rebuilding, as I have been mostly using my 1999 special edition 50 Summicron V and Summilux III lenses on my Barnack cameras, in order to get my money's worth from them. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hektor Posted January 9, 2019 Share #11780 Posted January 9, 2019 18 minutes ago, wlaidlaw said: I have been mostly using my 1999 special edition 50 Summicron V and Summilux III lenses on my Barnack cameras, in order to get my money's worth from them. Dear Wilson, Does that not lose the character, fun and challenge of using a screw-thread Leica? I know one should not argue by analogy, but I would liken it to fitting low profile radial-ply tyres to a vintage car. Kind regards, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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