Ducatiz "dream vintage car thread" set me off on a tangent..... When travelling its always been a fun game spotting odd local versions versions (or even not so odd) of otherwise familiar cars....
This is a FIAT 600 circa 1959..
(http://www.philseed.com/images/fiat-600-d.jpg)
This... isnt...
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2453/3801075103_af3f3fdd0d.jpg)
(Its a Zastava 750 from around 1980).
What we have here is a '71 British "built" Hillman Avenger (badged as Plymouth Cricket for the USA)..
(http://px6.streetfire.net/0001/14/32/1354123_600.jpg)
but WTF is this?
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Volkswagen_1500_Argentina.jpg/800px-Volkswagen_1500_Argentina.jpg)
(Its an Argentine built 1980 VW 1500. Proof the VW has no shame [laugh])
'57 Morris Oxford
(http://www.johnw55.freeuk.com/oxford/images/ox001w.jpg)
Still built in India to this day....
(http://www.driveitindia.com/displayimage.jsp?img_identifier=12253)
order yours here >> http://www.hmambassador.com/showroom.asp (http://www.hmambassador.com/showroom.asp)
Tired of that old Aussie built '64 falcon?
(http://images.smh.com.au/2010/06/24/1637013/old_600a-600x400.jpg)
Then how about '91 Falcon update? Thank you Ford of Argentina [thumbsup]
(http://images02.olx.com.ar/ui/9/21/20/1288654459_134012120_1-Fotos-de--Vendo-Ford-Falcon-Modelo-85-1288654459.jpg)
(https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3034/2928685714_1abf5c3d9d.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Ford_Falcon_Argentina_late_model_red.jpg/800px-Ford_Falcon_Argentina_late_model_red.jpg)
Love those lights from the Cortina parts bin [laugh].
So now its over to you....
It looks like a fetal VW bug, but it's not.. it's a Subaru 360
Rear engine, flat four, just like a bug..
(http://www.zercustoms.com/news/images/Subaru-360cc-rally-car-b.jpg)
A Citroen 2CV right?
(http://usuarios.multimania.es/citroen3cv/images/Super_America_1988_01.jpg)
Nope. Its a 1980's IES Súper América. Thanks again Argentina [thumbsup].
Here's yer actual French 2CV...
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Citroen_2CV_3.jpg/800px-Citroen_2CV_3.jpg)
My wife once owned one of these lil' beauties :o [laugh]. I learned to like it eventually.
Wasn't the Yugo based on this?
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2453/3801075103_af3f3fdd0d.jpg)
A fiat 128 but so were a lot of cars.
Quote from: D Paoli on November 25, 2010, 11:56:07 AM
Wasn't the Yugo based on this?
Zastava's export models for "The West" were badged as Yugo. AFAIK Zastava/Yugo never shipped thier FIAT 600 clone outside of Jugoslavia/The Eastern Bloc..... (Except maybe to Greece).
Turkey's TofaÅŸ (tofash)
Multiple models based on various Fiats
(http://wagonlog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/istanbul-tofash-serche.jpg)
(http://www.birja-vdv.az/pub/uploads/92o7yvmy.jpg)
I know this one is a copy/remake of the Fiat 131.. the Åžahin (shahin)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Sahin.jpg/250px-Sahin.jpg)
I like this car based on the Aussie Ford falcon.
(http://www.madmaxmovies.com/cars/mad-max-interceptor/images/InterceptorSide.jpg)