It seems obvious that I’m making the CC Clues too easy. So we’re going to do something else here: a replay of a very difficult Mystery Car Identification contest that ran on another site back in the day when they still did such mundane things. And what made me think of it? It ran for several days, and yours truly finally nailed it; my life’s greatest achievement. It gave me the inspiration for the CC Clue a few years later. We’re going to have to use the honor system: if you actually remember it (I doubt you will), please refrain. Because the guesses alone are going to be fun. And we will duly acknowledge said author and web site when the contest ends.
Hint: This is a production scoop, not an aftermarket or custom item.
Update: This car was not necessarily found on the street!
Contest Over: We have a correct guess: Dave Shulze, who said 1954 Fiat 8V. Excellent job!
I realize in retrospect that this may not have been such a brilliant idea given the how easy it is to find everything on Google. Oh well; seemed like a good idea at the time. BTW, I gave away the Mazda Rotary Kit to the first ever CC Clue winner. Sorry about not having prizes. It’s for the honor!
Here’s the link to my cyber-buddy Murilee Martin’s contest at Jalopnik:
http://jalopnik.com/301258/what-was-that-mystery-car-1954-fiat-8v
Ironically, I thought it was the front facing hood scoop I was identifying; I didn’t realize it also had two smaller rear facing extraction scoops too.
If this one was difficult for PN I’m sure that when its identity is finally revealed, I’m going to say, no way could I have gotten that. Yet, it looks like it has to be American from the ’50s and sporty, but that scoop is too big for a t’bird, and it’s not an early Corvette, and either wouild have been way too easy for Paul, and if I had the time I could go searching for whatever else there was… Damn this is going to bug me all evening, Paul. It’s got to be some damn really weird thing.
I think it might be a Sunbeam Tiger.
Correction – the Sunbeams didn’t have scoops. As unlikely as there would be one parked on the street, it looks like a Kurtis 500S.
The first thing that came to mind for me was a Sunbeam Alpine… but a search revealed no hood scoop. At least some Sunbeam Tigers do have them, however, so I’m going with that for now! edit: nevermind, Tiger hood scoops look to have been longer and more fliud.
Amphicar
Thanks to the clue…
Amphicar
Or maybe not. Swear I remember one with a scoop instead of the little chrome nostril, but now I’m doubting myself.
I also guess Sunbeam Tiger and I have seen them with hood scoops.
I don’t think it’s a Sunbeam. The scoop looks too much like an afterthought…
Ummmmmmmmmmm Fox body Mustang between 1979-1993? (Wild guess.) Wow that paint is in god awful condition for that being a factory piece.
Paul, Would it be a 1954 Fiat 8v,
Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Car
Cadillac Allard
Its amazing what a Google search will turn up – I won’t spoil it since I cheated…
I’m thinking it might be an air-extraction vent or maybe some kind of side scoop.
Edit — probably not…….
Still too many clues Paul! I cheated and ran a search, which brought me to a certain website, where I found the post in question. This may have ran longer if you had omitted the fact that it had been a clue on another site a few years back. Did you enjoy the Visible Mazda Rotary model kit? My hats off to the winner if he gets it without using my method:)
Agreed …… the minute I saw that picture, I remembered it from that “other” site as well. A quick search turned it up in no time. Did you get permission from MM?????????
AC Cobra
Or not.
Now that I cheated too, I see that I was all wrong.
Dämn
This has the look of a Studebaker, ca 1956. One of the Hawks, with a supercharged Stude engine or a Packard engine.
Bob
Glasspar G-2.
Being a sailor, I know crappy fiberglass work when I see it.