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◊ 2010-09-15 22:55 |
What's the car in the lower right corner? A Sunbeam Avenger ? |
Gomselmash11 ◊ 2010-09-15 22:57 |
sure? not a Hillman Avenger? it's similar to my Dodge 1500... ![]() -- Last edit: 2010-09-15 22:57:26 |
◊ 2010-09-15 23:01 |
Naah, rather a 1968+ 4-door Opel Kadett LS (the Coupé). |
◊ 2010-09-15 23:02 |
Not an Avenger - though I see the resemblance - as it was not launched until 1970. Cortina is probably an early Consul Cortina deluxe in that depressing grey, but can not confirm. |
◊ 2010-09-15 23:25 |
I'm still thinking of a fourdoor LS: Link to "data.motor-talk.de" Indeed a rare car. I had to look while before I've found a photo. You don't believe it for such a mass-produced car, but there was indeed one engine-trim line-combinaion of the Kadett B LS, of which only three(!) single cars were produced. I know this from a *cough* indeed nerdic ![]() |
◊ 2010-09-15 23:48 |
Was the 4 door coupe body also used for the Olympia? I think most Olympias had vinyl roofs but possibly not all? Or - like the Avenger - is the Olympia too late for 1968? |
◊ 2010-09-16 09:20 |
Made two other screenshots. A better view was not possible:![]() ![]() |
◊ 2010-09-16 09:32 |
I'm quite sure, that it's a 4-door Kadett B LS. |
◊ 2010-09-16 16:14 |
Yes agree, Kadett B |
◊ 2010-09-17 01:45 |
The thumbs are helpful for the Cortina, because I can not see a boot badge (I can however imagine ingo laughing his socks off). 1965+ m.y. Cortinas had a big badge on the right which should be visible here. Consul Cortinas had a thinner central badge, which probably would not be visible against a grey colour. Therefore we have a 1963 Consul Cortina, probably standard or deluxe in such a drab colour and with no chrome trim. It is of course impossible under every known law and humanitarian convention for a Mk1 Cortina to ever exist without a boot badge, unless it is a Lotus until mid-1965 which this is definitely not. |
◊ 2010-09-17 13:03 |
Seems so: /vehicle.php?id=334633 |
◊ 2010-09-17 18:10 |
Imdcb has a few Olympias without vinyl roofs (eg /vehicle_265782-Opel-Olympia-1967.html - 4 door, Italian registered) and 1968 date seems to fit. |