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Identify this stylish coupe and its country of origin:
First correct answer wins $50 worth of bold tags and all of George Monbiot’s leftover carbon credits.
UPDATE. We have a winner! Bonjour Triteness correctly observes: “That is the Turkish made Anadol. First car made in Turkey.”
UPDATE II. The pic was actually taken by my mother during her recent visit to Turkey. She emails: “The day the Anadol was launched it wouldn’t start because it had no petrol. That’s the Turks. Have you started work yet?”
- That’s a Moztosmyzh D-214, built by Tractor Works Number 68 Worker Transport Factory in Vyzstysmolkya, Taszhistan. You can donate the bold tags to Webdiary in Wronwright’s name.Posted by Dave S. on 2006 11 04 at 03:16 AM • permalink
- You’re letting Kilo get to you, Dave. Just ignore him – he usually gets high and wanders off, like Towellie.Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 11 04 at 03:21 AM • permalink
- I think it’s a Molotov C built by a little-known French company called ‘Surrender’. Apparently it’s designed to burn in a more environmentally friendly fashion.Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 11 04 at 03:23 AM • permalink
- I thought it was the ‘Troika’ the little known car designed by the ALP.
Left (hand) drive, tick
Has two doors, which encourages ‘closeness’ in getting in and out of the thing, tick
Is small and not too greedy with Gaia’s goodies, tick,
Like Beazley, needs a large space in which to park itself, tick,
Is modeled on good ole’ Soviet engineering know how, tick.
Can be used to house a family of Aboriginals and can be easily repaired with spinifex, tick.
- I dunno, but it looks like something paco would palm off to some Mother Gaia™ worshipping leftie.
For a huge profit.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 11 04 at 03:29 AM • permalink
- *summons all the shitbox Warsaw pact auto manufacturers from memory bank*
FSO- Poland
Dacia – Romania
Yugo – Yugoslavia
Skoda – Former Czechslovakia
Really, I have no idea.
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 11 04 at 04:33 AM • permalink
- That is the Turkish made Anadol. First car made in Turkey.Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2006 11 04 at 04:56 AM • permalink
- Actually, I have no idea. But kilo was conceived in the back seat.
No way. That car is waaay too classy for that.
Posted by Quentin George on 2006 11 04 at 05:00 AM • permalink
- I’ve no idea really, but I will guess its an Italian made Fiat (Fix It Again Tony), it looks like shit…Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 11 04 at 05:32 AM • permalink
- Very O/T, but hilarious none the less is this article in todays Australian.
“It seems entirely possible that at some point in his career (John Kerry) was seized by a youthful Karl Rove, brainwashed and programmed to kill off, at crucial moments in American history, the Democratic Party’s political prospects.” – Gerard Baker
With such brilliant logic, I’m almost certain that Gerry posts here. The real question is, is he secretly working for PACO Corp, or Wronwrights VRWC ™?
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 11 04 at 05:42 AM • permalink
- OT. After reading this idiocy I need more than just a drink. I need a whole bloody keg and a titanium cluebat for this nutjob.
Rave Victime Defends Embattled Sheikh
November 04, 2006 04:12pm
Article from: AAPA WOMAN who described herself as a rape victim today defended the mufti of Australia, Sheik Taj al-Din al-Hilaly, saying his controversial comments did not mean he justified rape.
Cindy Taylor walked with the sheik down the steps of Sydney’s Lakemba Mosque after prayers today, before speaking to reporters.
The sheik has been at the centre of controversy since likening immodestly dressed women to uncovered meat and suggesting they invited sexual assault.
Ms Taylor said she understood what the sheik had tried to say, and called on Australians to be more open-minded.
“He was not being politically correct. But, he’s not a politician, he’s a philosophical leader,” she said.
“He’s a wonderful man and his analogy certainly did not justify the act of rape.
“He believes that the act of rape is one of the worst capital crimes in Islam.”
Ms Taylor said she had been raped twice, when she was 14 and 30, but no one was ever charged.
She said was raised a Christian who had developed an interest in Islam.
There were only about 100 worshippers at Lakemba Mosque today, in contrast to yesterday when more than 1000 people assembled to hear the sheik speak.
Police and journalists outnumbered onlookers from the Muslim community outside the mosque.
The sheik had asked followers to call off a rally planned for today and attend Friday prayers instead.
Sheik al-Hilaly yesterday said he would resign if an impartial panel found him guilty of inciting rape. He also promised to tape shut his mouth for six months.
Tom Zreika, president of the Lebanese Muslim Association (LMA), which administers Lakemba Mosque, today said he believed the furore over the mufti’s comments was now “dead in the water”.
He also said he believed an ethical tribunal to judge the sheik’s comments was a good idea.
bolding mine.
cue foaming rant.So they managed to find themselves a silly skippy infidel whore to hook herself for them. No doubt she is being seduced by the liquid brown eyes and soft words that promise her respect and dignity that she thinks she is missing in her current existence.
Of course, she’s not seeing that the soft words mask iron will and fists, nor does she realise that the respect and dignity she craves comes from within not without.
Girlfriend, get over yourself. Get a farking clue.
There are so many things I want to say about rape and responsibility and all the rest, that my head is about to explode.
How on earth she can excuse Catmeat’s words as being misunderstood, because he’s not a pollie is beyond ridiculous! Yes, sunshine, he is a politician. To be a religious leader you have to be one.
I need a shower after reading that crap.
And she needs a smack upside the head with reality. Let’s see her in Saudi or Pakistan. I’d like to see her warm and fuzzy understanding of islam undergo a metamorphosis.
Out of the chrysalis comes not a butterfly but a ravening parasite.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 11 04 at 05:49 AM • permalink
- Ask us a hard one. This is a Victa two-stroke automobile manufactured by the Victa Lawnmower Company in South Australia in the forties. Only about fifty were made and they were sold to the Turkish Postal Service in a job lot.
A shining example of Australian design excellence, it had only two gears. The good news is that it could go just as fast in reverse as forward.
- Whatever it is, it would benefit from a full bodykit, 4″system, recalibrated turbo and fuel mapping, some 19” alloys and fully sik paintjob from the House of Habib- we can make even a twocked shopping trolley outrun them dickheads in the NSW highway patrol, and get you to evening prayers at Lakemba quicker than a denial of medeaval sexism from a mullah, with plenty of time to pick up chicks, whether they wanna be picked up or not.
- Could have sworn it was one of Brock’s earlier forays into European racing. I had it pegged as a Khova Dilka, with the “limited edition” big bore 1200cc,3 speed crash box and allround leaf springers. The coupe version was also fitted with the race brakes off the Equus Hoofus 2.3, from the tuning arm of EEK! (rare Lapland tuners)
Without a doubt, one of Lower Estonias best loved rally cars of the mid 70’s-90’s.
- O/T but serious.
wronwright, Mark L & Co.
Can you please explain this leak, reported in today’s Weekend Australian newspaper:
There is compelling evidence now that John Kerry is a kind of Manchurian Candidate of Democratic politics.
It seems entirely possible that at some point in his career he was seized by a youthful Karl Rove, brainwashed and programmed to kill off, at crucial moments in American history, the Democratic Party’s political prospects.
Like, what kind of amateur right wing plan of World Domination (TM) are you guys running? Its even reported in the Australian papers? Sheesh!
Rove is gunna be really pissed the plan got exposed. And you think Clinton’s missus isn’t going to suspect something now?
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 11 04 at 07:10 AM • permalink
And you think Clinton’s missus isn’t going to suspect something now?
Shhhhh! She’s “Plan B”!
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 11 04 at 07:15 AM • permalink
- #31, SCD, soz mate, but I beat you to the punch @ #22
Habib, what car wouldn’t benefit from a new turbo and EFI map?
Beats the shit out of the 350 Holley on my VK (I still love you baby)…
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 11 04 at 07:22 AM • permalink
- Its Beazleys lunchbox.Posted by curious george on 2006 11 04 at 08:09 AM • permalink
- Could it be one of these?
(prior to it being turned into a peugeot)
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 11 04 at 08:20 AM • permalink
- Well, looking at it initially with its swoopy lines, muscular wheel arches and massive hood beneath which there obviously lurks the throbbing heart of a race car I thought it was a forerunner of the Jensen Inteceptor.
However, I’ve decided it’s a Turkish made Anadol, circa 1966.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2006 11 04 at 08:45 AM • permalink
- Mind you, Clubbeaux is at the very least worth a mention in despatches.
- Whatever it is, it’s kind of cute. It would make a nice planter.Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 11 04 at 09:30 AM • permalink
- Lamborghini Countach LP500S. I might be wrong on this.Posted by wronwright on 2006 11 04 at 09:53 AM • permalink
- Not entirely sure – but going by the photo in this link, I’m pretty sure that whoever said Anadol from Turkey is the lucky winner of all that luxuriant bold.Posted by James Waterton on 2006 11 04 at 11:06 AM • permalink
- Man, I should be more observant – of course it’s the Anadol. Look at the door handles and that cleft along the side.Posted by James Waterton on 2006 11 04 at 11:08 AM • permalink
- Anadol?
Get a clue, guys. That’sa Ferrari, believe it or not. Back in the early sixties, Enzo had a brief flirtation with a “peoples car”, and he and his engineers came up with this flawed design. What was the flaw you ask? How about a twelve cylinder, 400 bhp Ferrari engine mated to a Fiat Topolino 4-speed tranny!
The dozen or so prototypes were promptly sold to a obscure Turkish auto company….oh,wait a minute…
- triticale:
any chance of getting a carburetor rebuild kit for a Mustang mailed to the US? Danged thing cuts great till the float bowl is empty.
Try JCWhitney.com.
Posted by Some0Seppo on 2006 11 04 at 11:45 AM • permalink
- I swear to God, back in my youth, I had a Corgi toy car of the same model, only green with an orange interior.
And it was absolutely true to the original: the suspension was shot, the doors fell off, and I couldn’t trade it to anyone for a Hot Wheels, not even the ubiquitous Splittin’ Image.
Posted by Tex Lovera on 2006 11 04 at 12:29 PM • permalink
- Whatever it is, I wouldn’t even run over it.Posted by Tungsten Monk on 2006 11 04 at 12:31 PM • permalink
- Certainly the carosserie is Turkish, but underneath it is the rare and desirable Bugatti Type 51, looted in chassis form from Molsheim in 1941 and sequestered behind the Iron Curtain.
A later owner realized its value and sent it to Turkey, applying the Anadol body to save import duty. It was headed back to France for restoration, until the recent CarBQ unpleasantness intervened, and the owner wisely sold it to me.
You could have it for 48,000 guineas. I can be reached at the Nigerian Consulate in Istambul. Certainly it is worth far more, due to its exotic provenance,
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2006 11 04 at 02:10 PM • permalink
- O/T, but since this post looks like a slimly disguised open thread, you might enjoy another message to John Kerry from our troops. Via Michelle Malkin.
- #31 SCD –
wronwright, Mark L & Co.
Can you please explain this leak, reported in today’s Weekend Australian newspaper:
There is compelling evidence now that John Kerry is a kind of Manchurian Candidate of Democratic politics.
Aiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyy.
But how? Who got hold of this information? Who wrote this article? Baker. Baker. Where have I heard that name before?
Posted by wronwright on 2006 11 04 at 02:40 PM • permalink
- An early Hillman Hunter?Posted by curious george on 2006 11 04 at 04:49 PM • permalink
- That’s the development mule for the next generation Morgans.
Carbon-fibre panels over laminated ash bodyframe, bio-diesel/electric hybrid power, carbide headlamps, solid rear axle…
Pretty sweet, I’d say.
Posted by Frogwhistle on 2006 11 04 at 06:02 PM • permalink
- #24 geoff: I think the Lightburn Concrete Mixer company made a similar car in South Australia. One of the ugliest little things ever designed outside of the USSR. Had only 3 wheels, so very unsafe.
It did have a revolutionary fiber glass body
[because it was gutless].They made good concrete mixers anyway.
- Alpha Romeo, France ?? Yes, I’m pretty sure that the AR is Italian, but this has French written all over it. Just as clumsy as the Renault 4 and Charles de Gaul Citroen.Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 04 at 07:10 PM • permalink
- #74 “An early Hillman Hunter”. When were you born? An early Hillman Hunter looked like … bloody hell, I just checked google for a pic and it could be … memory is failing, I was thinking of some British jaloppy looking more like a VW. Ah yes, the Morris MinorPosted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 04 at 07:31 PM • permalink
- #77 Barrie.I don’t recall a Lightburn three-wheeler but they did manufacture a thing called the Lightburn Zeta.It was entered to run in the Armstrong 500 at Bathurst in 1963 but in secret trials it was found to be incapable of making it to the top of the Mountain in any gear other than reverse and sadly had to be scratched.Lightburn did however have significant success with its washing machine,this crude but bullet proof device made the company a lot of money quite a bit of which was squandered on the pursuit motor racing fame.As for the desirable coupe in the picture,could it be a customised Vauxhall Viva,maybe a surviving example of Boyd Coddington’s early work and no doubt a collectors item.
- Victa? Zeta?
I knew it was something designed and manufactured in South Australia by a company that made household appliances protected by enormous tariffs, had a two-stroke engine and ran the same in reverse as forward. And captured the imagination of the market like air-conditioned condoms.
Lightburn is the name of an Australian white goods manufacturer who briefly entered the passenger car market in the mid-1960s with the oddly shaped Lightburn Zeta sedan. The cars were built in a washing machine factory at Camden Park in Adelaide … The cars where launched to the market in 1963 at a starting price of £595. Production ceased in 1965 with the last vehicles sold in 1966 and total sales of less than 400 vehicles.
The vehicle was powered by the Villiers Ltd 324 cc two-stroke motor with drive to the front wheels. The motor’s stated output was 12 kW, giving a performance reported as almost nil[1] and drive was via a motorcycle gearbox and chain drive. Due to the gearbox design, reversing the car required stopping the engine, then restarting using the electramatic system which spun the engine in reverse.
Put out of business by the Morris Minor? Cringe.
- So that’s where recycled beer cans end up.Posted by Spectre765 on 2006 11 04 at 09:43 PM • permalink
- A real headache on the road: a probationary driver in a “P”anadol?Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 11 05 at 12:10 AM • permalink
- Hey, that baby puts out a stonking 54 koní at 5200 rpm!
Not too shabby…
Posted by Frogwhistle on 2006 11 05 at 01:38 AM • permalink
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