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Saturday, October 13, 2007

What is this?



The car mag hunt is on in earnest, perhaps it should be called "Looking for Zonda", because I would have to regard that as the ultimate, I certainly have never seen one. But there are going to be some super classics of a surprising sort on the way, and I thought a couple of clues might be a good thing - any idea what this is? Devastatingly cool car, but at 1973, I think a bit before your time, and probably before mine.


And then there is this one - clues are: 5 litre V12, six speed manual transmission, two years older than you; super-rare, and the mirror might give you an additional clue. The car it was derived from is one of the rarest and most sought after super-cars in history. What is it?

3 comments:

The J Man said...

ok im not sure but i think that the first one is a mustang and the second one i'm really not sure but it could be a aston martin vanquish s or a ferrari 599 GTB but i don't know

The J Man said...

scratch the last two i hav no idea i cant think of a car with those door handles

zipbang said...

I'm pretty impressed j man - the first opinion is a pretty educated bit of automotive thinking; its not a Mustang, but was based on the Mustang,and the interpretation of the mechanical horse is equally sharp. You bright thing. There was not nearly enough visual info on the second one - so not fair - and I therefore feel I should tell you. Amazingly its a BMW - a very rare 850 CSI - rare particularly because it's a six speed manual; it was based on the BMW M1 - which I understand is now one of the most sought after and expensive collectors super-cars. The M1 was actually designed by Lamborghini in collaboration with BMW - so there's an interesting connection, particularly that Lambo is now owned by BM's big rival.