Mystery Car!
Happy Friday, welcome to another edition of that venerated game, Mystery Car!. Today’s edition of the game falls, inconveniently, on Friday the 13th, so perhaps your luck in guessing these things in mere nano-seconds will finally run out. Personally, I don’t believe in such superstition, but regardless, I won’t be walking under any ladders, or anywhere near a black cat while fumbling with a mirror today. I’d recommend that you do the same.
And the best way to take your mind off of your impending spate of rotten luck is to focus on today’s Mystery Car! contender, which oddly isn’t red for once. Of course, we all play the roll of the trickster here, and that color may have been altered to mask this car’s true identity, which may or may not make that red color a national requirement. Either way, I think you’ll find that it’s more skill than luck that brings the right answer, a good thing on a day notable for providing bad omens.
The rules haven’t changed, you must provide the year, make, model, and engine in order to be crowned the winner, and I don’t think I need to tell you, good luck.
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Uh… Shit. NSX, I guess?
<img src="http://www.hybridcars.com/files/Acura-NSX-Concept.jpg" width=550>
Why is it that response NEVER gets old?
Monteverdi High Speed?
1967 Oldsmobile Thor Ghia
Oldsmobile Toronado platform, So I assume Rocket V8.
<img src="http://www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au/images/heritage/Ghia/Ghia_Large_3.jpg" width="450/">
Penned by Giugiaro when he worked for Ghia.
Damn, you nailed it. I was going off the thought that it was an AC Frua coupé…
I went the same way actually at first, but the back of the greenhouse wasn't right and then it dawned on me. I hadn't seen this angle before there is a Black and white shot that I had seen that the back windows look very different due to shade, but once i saw this shot, i knew.
Good call, and congrats! Celebrate accordingly. Drink, dance, be merry!
Just… um… don't do them all at the same time…
<img src="http://i43.tinypic.com/2lxuwpd.jpg">
What's up with the guy in the face mask? Is he really getting the mercury to go down in a rectal thermometer? Cause that's what it looks like to me. That would explain ninja fighting man trying to keep them all away. My wife's sister was in a Polish hip hop band as a dancer, Fast and Funky or something like that was the name. In this area the Ruskies have got the Poles beat I see. Congrats PBJ! Man I can't stop laughing at this photo, I just noticed how off all of their rhythm is relative to one another, ha!
Oh man I found a song that fits really well: "Rollin' & Scratchin'" by Daft Punk, awesome!
Hahahah, wow, I can't get that image of the guy with the thermometer out of my head now… Holy crap.
I'll have to try that with the song when I get home.
Bravo, I was stuck on how Ferrari Daytona-esque the hood slope was.
Lying hood slope.
Good job! I was thinking Buick.
Well done.
I picked up on the 67 Toronado influences, and was headed down the path of the 70-X.
<img src="http://imagehost.vendio.com/preview/da/danschmitt/404718-10.jpg" width=500>
The 70s were a hard decade for many things. God those wheels are terrible.
Those wheels are hubcaps!
I was more referencing the size of them, the wheels are so small compared to the vehicle. I'm glad I was not a designer in the 70s. That's the gist I guess.
Technically, those hubcaps are wheel covers.
Indeed you are correct.
Actually, the car was designed and built in time for the Montreal Expo in '67.
It's a Barris car though, which probably explains some of the styling choices. See links below for before-and-after pictures.
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/5349186/George-Barris… http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2011/03/ebay-find-of…
Wow. Reminds me of '71 and later AMC Javelins, you know except for those looking good and all.
Sweet. There's nothing like tire smoke pouring in open windows from a Toronado burnout. Been there, done that.
Well done. That thing must be a beast and I assume awful visibility. I drove a regular Toronado of that vintage, it felt like I was piloting a cave.
Bravo. That rear window was screaming SM to me, so I was going through all manner of Citroen, Maserati, and Frua. My time was not wasted. Links embedded.
<img src="http://i615.photobucket.com/albums/tt237/jskitter/hooniverse/CitroenSMRetractable.jpg">
<img src="http://i615.photobucket.com/albums/tt237/jskitter/hooniverse/LamborghiniFaena.jpg" width="500">
I found a beautiful shot of the Citroen Frua SM in my journeys of finding the Thor.
<img src="http://www.lotusespritturbo.com/Citroen_SM_Frua_1972.jpg" width="450/">
Which I guess makes sense that visually some things were similar since Frua was owned by Ghia by 1972.
Good work, there's no way I was thinking of a domestic (even if designed elsewhere). Then again, I usually suck at these, so…
Nice work! I was really thinking it was some Maserati concept. The very similar-looking Ghibli came out in the same year. Also penned by Giugiaro.
PotbellyJoe wins! I thought 1969 A.C. Frua 428 Coupe would've been right answer, but no.
But the 70-X? Gak!
And I thought we might have had two Monteverdis featured on the same day.
<img src="http://www.cartype.com/pics/3143/small/monteverdi_375_68.jpg"width=500>
It looks sorta close, but different in the rear windows.