This is not going to be easy, so let me provide additional info. - There were only two of these cars built, the one here being the second of the pair. While the two resemble one another, they are distinct (very different front end treatments). - Both the builder of this car and the manufacturer of the mechanicals on which it was based were European. In fact, they were from the same country of origin. Hinges at work and interior: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Outside of the Taunus, plenty of Francais en arriere, 204, GS et 5. I'm heading towards the Tricolor for origin.
Assuming you mean Le Tricolore (as opposed to Il Tricolore or La Tricolor), you're certainly headed in the right direction. Without a doubt.
Okay, let's make this one quicker. South American one-off. A photo taken during what I believe to be the late 1960s, and another of the same car as it appears today. No mustelidae involved this time. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Powered by a modified Ford Flathead V8, mated to a Ford 3-speed transmission. Come on, people, let's solve this one quickly!
Sorry for the cross-post guys, but a lot of people with superb niche knowledge frequent this thread, and I am getting desperate to identify this car...! http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/144356800-post953.html -Ed
Didn't want two threads running on this same topic (and didn't want to sidetrack this thread) so I moved the other posts on this car over there.
24 stud - 59AB. I'm in personal contact with the man who designed and engineered this thing, so let me know if you have any further questions for him.
This doesn't add up for me. (Or I'm just stumped.) The 1960s is really late to be using a flathead Ford. Unless it's an overhead conversion. SIMCA made overhead vlave conversions called EmiSul (for Hemi and South America) around that time. They were very similar to the ARDUN heads. (Of which I have a fake pair in my garage.) But 59AB is a true flathead head and not an OHV. Why would they use a flathead in the 1960s? They could have used variety of more powerful OHV engines. So perhaps I'd ask why the flathead was chosen. But, again, I'm just stumped. I thought this one was supposed to be easy and quick! Matt
How about another hint? Some years later, this car's stellar moniker was recycled for use by a Detroit automaker.
