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This car took fifth place in the 1971 Small Car Comparison, just beating out last week’s AMC Gremlin.
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I could probably tell you 80% of 1955-65 American cars from cues on the body, and the tire looks like my Potenzas, but I’m afraid I have no idea with this one.
That’s a front anti-roll bar… a Mercedes 190 perhaps?
Well I don’t see a pool of oil under it, so I don’t think it’s British.
Are you serious? If anyone gets this, I’ll piss myself.
A Labrador in a Coal Mine?
–chuck
A Toyota Camry.
Lacking any visual clues you just gotta go with the odds…
Methinks Paul thought people were figuring out the previous clues too soon and is now taking revenge.
Looks like modern rubber, so I’m guessing they are not original to whatever they are attached to.
Come. On.
Fiat Spider
Lurker forever, time to contribute :)
That stabilizer bar seems to come from either a Ford Festiva or a Fiat Uno. The latter wasn’t sold in the US.
But that tyre is just to big for a Festiva…
Paul, your pictures will turn out better if you take off the lens cap.
Some sort of full size Chrysler product?
A Model T. Any color you want so long as it is black. Or is there supposed to be a picture here?
I thought the next few Curbside Classics were going to be cars featured in the 1971 Car and Driver test of small cars. The Gremlin was in that test, and finished last.
I’m betting that this is a VW Beetle. If I recall correctly, it finished near the back of the pack.
’75 International Harvester! No, wait…. ’68 Pontiac GTO! No, wait…. ’59 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider Veloce! No, wait…
How many tries do I get?
Really trying to make it hard to get these now. Not only as you taking obscure picktures from under the car but they are completely black so you can’t make out what little is there.
I want to say its a conv. of some sort, MB 300SL?
BMW 507?
Sorry about the picture quality. It’s a snippet of the whole picture, so it’s very zoomed in and dark. But knowing (or did you all forget?) that we’re in the middle of a 1971 six car comparison, I had to make it hard, yet very distinctive (which this actually is).
Opel Kadett?
Obviously a Pinto.
The five remaining cars from the 1971 test are the Chevy Vega, Ford Pinto, Toyota Corolla, VW Beetle and Simca 1204. All sound like dismal choices.
My vote is for the Simca 1204 just because the only car it could be better than is a Gremlin.
I vote the Simca 1204 as well.
Here is an auction for the issue:
http://cgi.ebay.com/CAR-and-DRIVER-Magazine-Jan-1971-Small-Cars-Comparison_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQitemZ200290164667#ebayphotohosting
Damn you cheaters, I found the C&D on issue on ebay also, but I was at least going try cheat without disclosing the whole issue.
The Vega won, and, as already covered, the Gremlin got 6th place. So that leaves four.
It’s incredibly hard to get front suspension pictures for early ’70s subcompacts, and in a lot of the front end pictures the suspensions seem to be airbrushed out, possibly out of shame.
The Chrysler Simca 1204 was likely to have a sway bar because of its European heritage, but I’m going to go with Corolla.
It’s the Beetle. I deduce this from the fact that this is the only part of the car that you could show that wouldn’t instantly reveal what it is. Therefore, that’s what it is.
Fiat 128
It might be the VW, this looks pretty similar:
http://www.1302super.com/MacPh.JPG
1971 was when VW switched the Bug from the torsion bar suspension to struts.
Ford Maverick.
I’m super impressed!
I can get you an almost exact shot but of a TR6 although it may have my knuckle parts still attached…
That swaybar and the way the front apron cuts upwards before it quite reaches the wheel says Beetle to me. Super Beetle
1972 Honda 600Z Coupe
1971 Honda 600 Sedan
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A quickie lightening and brightening that MAY assist in IDing the conveyance
If it’s the Beetle, maybe Paul will write of a few Beetle flashbacks from years gone by.
1971 Super Beetle