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General Category => Unusual Microcar Discussion => Topic started by: Bob Purton on July 25, 2013, 09:04:14 AM

Title: Mystery car contest
Post by: Bob Purton on July 25, 2013, 09:04:14 AM: Any offers?
Title: Re: Mystery car comtest
Post by: richard on July 25, 2013, 09:11:24 AM: Something felberish ? Or bambinoish ?
Title: Re: Mystery car comtest
Post by: Rob Dobie on July 25, 2013, 09:40:19 AM: Quote from: Bob Purton on July 25, 2013, 09:04:14 AM
Any offers?

50 quid.
Title: Re: Mystery car comtest
Post by: richard on July 25, 2013, 10:10:35 AM: It must be me :)
Title: Re: Mystery car comtest
Post by: Bob Purton on July 25, 2013, 02:25:01 PM: Quote from: Rob Dobie on July 25, 2013, 09:40:19 AM
Quote from: Bob Purton on July 25, 2013, 09:04:14 AM
Any offers?

50 quid.

Ok Rob. Done but you have to be at Jeans to collect it!
Title: Re: Mystery car comtest
Post by: Rob Dobie on July 25, 2013, 02:40:14 PM: Are you calling my bluff?
Title: Re: Mystery car comtest
Post by: Big Al on July 25, 2013, 03:39:58 PM: Gibberresh, an arabic form of Gibberish, in the same as this is not an ABC Tricar.
Title: Re: Mystery car comtest
Post by: Bob Purton on July 25, 2013, 04:36:45 PM: Quote from: Rob Dobie on July 25, 2013, 02:40:14 PM
Are you calling my bluff?

I am indeed. Turn up at the open day and for a crisp £50 note I will hand you this very photograph!
Title: Re: Mystery car comtest
Post by: Bob Purton on July 25, 2013, 04:39:43 PM: Do you give up yet? Here it is from the front view.
Title: Re: Mystery car contest
Post by: richard on July 25, 2013, 05:13:24 PM: no idea but the bystanders look south american or spanish perhaps
Title: Re: Mystery car contest
Post by: Bob Purton on August 04, 2013, 01:10:44 PM: Does everyone give up on this one?

Here's a clue. "Im feeling a bit peckish"
Title: Re: Mystery car contest
Post by: minitici on August 04, 2013, 04:49:20 PM: Quote from: Bob Purton on August 04, 2013, 01:10:44 PM
Does everyone give up on this one?

Here's a clue. "Im feeling a bit peckish"

Hungary! - a Gittla
Title: Re: Mystery car contest
Post by: richard on August 04, 2013, 07:13:13 PM: Crackers ?
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Post by: Bob Purton on August 04, 2013, 08:34:38 PM: Well done Minitici, A Gittla it is and from Hungary. If I owned one I would have to name it Adolf!
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Post by: Rob Dobie on August 04, 2013, 10:03:59 PM: Why, do you know someone in Hungary with that name?
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Post by: Bob Purton on August 04, 2013, 11:21:11 PM: Yeh thats right Rob. ;)
Title: Re: Mystery car contest
Post by: Barry on September 28, 2013, 08:06:18 AM: How about this one?

http://www.barnfinds.com/name-car-mystery-microcar/

Interesting site too.
Title: Re: Mystery car contest
Post by: Rusty Chrome (Malcolm Parker) on September 28, 2013, 12:38:18 PM: That one's already been identified in the comments - Dick Dean's Shalako beach buggy. Named after the Sean Connery film.
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Post by: Rusty Chrome (Malcolm Parker) on September 28, 2013, 12:52:06 PM: Here's another one.
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Post by: richard on September 28, 2013, 01:08:45 PM: If the Shalako ? Was based on a VW Beetle and the next a Skoda ? How do either belong on our MICROCAR site ?
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Post by: Rusty Chrome (Malcolm Parker) on September 28, 2013, 03:19:24 PM: Who said the latest one was based on a Skoda? I just chose that file name to throw you off the scent. ;D
Title: Re: Mystery car contest
Post by: Barry on September 28, 2013, 03:30:03 PM: Quote from: richard on September 28, 2013, 01:08:45 PM
If the Shalako ? Was based on a VW Beetle and the next a Skoda ? How do either belong on our MICROCAR site ?

I didn't know what it was but it was suggested that it was a microcar (USA).
Do we need to know exactly if it fits in the microcar definition (600cc and 700cc limits still unclear) before it is posted? Catch 24 I think :)