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It’s hard finding the sweet spot with the CC Clue. I made it harder on Monday, and sure enough, not one right guess. All right, I’m going to make this one super easy! Big picture, lots of details and resolution. No need for Google Images. Way too easy. Quick; what is it?
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Morris Minor?
An International, or The Thing from VW?
VW Thing?
No chipped paint on or around that hinge…remarkable!
VW Thing, right?
LOL, no VW thing (I thought the sane). Yeah, I googled it :D
CTS-V Wagon
By the industrial hinge I’m going with a VW Thing
Saab wagon?
Whatever it is, it must have been photographed immediately after it was washed following the (ugly blue) paint job.
Those are not the same taillights as a Thing or a Mini (Minor or Moke).
Anything European would most likely have an amber turn signal.
I’m guessing a Willys Jeepster, by the rake of the tailgate.
I say early Saab wagon also. The Thing, at least the models officially sold in America, had single round combination lamps just like the ’73 and later Beetles.
It’s a Nissan Pao!
Touche!
Yup sure is
its that old classic VW whatchamacallit
How about doing what my college newspaper did with the daily sudokus, start the week off easy and progressively get a lot harder by Friday?
International Scout or Travelall?
Bunter
International Scout
Save your guesses potatobreath is right
’55 Nomad?
No, stupid me. Look at the tail lights! Doh!
Jeepster or Willys is my guess, not a regular Jeep. I guess 1950s is the decade.
Suzukie Samurai
Can’t be a VW Thing because they had a single, Red/Yellow/White tail light assembly that was identical to the ones found on the Beetle from 1973 through their demise. Unless it is a Mexican-built one of recent vintage. I saw one of those in Seattle recently and did a double-take as it had way too many non-70s-vintage trim parts on it.
Saab from like the ’60s. Can’t remember what they called the model. And I hgaven’t looked at what anyone else said
corroboration for Potatobreath:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nissan_Pao_002.JPG
It’s even the same color.
Was going to say an old Citroen, but then the wikipedia pic of the Nissan killed my buzz.
I’m calling shenanigans- the Pao was never legal in the US and with a very limited production run (approx 10,000 units) it’s a highly collectible car- hardly the kind of thing you would see parked at the curb in a used-car kind of neighborhood.
Saab 96 station wagon
oops I wanted to say Saab 95. But it is a Pao, right?
First gen International Travelall?
It takes more than low production numbers to make a car collectible. There was one parts car I had, a 1958 Plymouth Savoy 4-door hardtop. Production was 5,060, compared to 5,303 Fury hardtops and 9,941 Belvedere convertibles. This Savoy had sat outside for sixteen years when I found it, and I just got some trim parts off it. I’ll check someday to see if it’s still in the wrecking yard I sold it to. Anyway, I’ll bet you a dollar you’ve never seen a 1958 Savoy 4-door hardtop at a car show.
I have seen a 1958 Plymouth Savoy 4-door sedan at a car show. I even have a photo of it.
My aunt once had a ’57 Savoy sedan. She swore off Mopar after that experience!
I don’t know what it is but it can’t be a Morris Minor as it doesn’t have a piano on top of it.
Definitely a Nissan Pao; my question is where in the world did you find one of those? Saab 95 was a good guess, the tail lights are similar but it didn’t have exposed hinges on the tailgate.
I saw one close answer, how about a predecessor to the Suzuki Samurai … in pickup form.
@cnyguy: I agree; however, it’s possible the curbside in question is in Canuckistan. They allowed Figaros in legally, so maybe the Pao slipped in too. People do now and then sneak such cars across the border on some ruse or another, usually misrepresenting the model year and fiddling with the VIN to get some state to issue a title. There was a long thread on another site recently about a non-federalized Alfa like that.
vw thing