Can You Identify This

[Cobalt1959]

Cobalt's close enough.......1956 Studebaker - Packard Predictor.

Not a Studebaker. Packard was now partnered with Studebaker, (they merged in 1954) but Studebaker had no part in the Predictor. Packard was still hoping to be able to continue building their own line of cars, hence the Predictor show car, built by Ghia in Turin, and the rough, cobbled-up "Black Bess" prototype built in-house at the Packard plant. The Predictor would, however, have been used as a platform for both Packard and Studebaker cars, if it had made it to production. As it was, '57 and '58 Packards were simply badge-engineered Studebakers.

[Cobalt1959]

While we are doing show cars, how about this one? Both [U]what[/U] is it, and [U]where[/U] is it?

[arimart]

That's easy. Ghia Chrysler Norsemann, inside Andrea Doria sunk in the Atklantic Sea Jul 25th 1956.
Give a try at this one. It too is a famous one-off, and it's not Porky Pig's car....

[arimart]

Clue. It's not a show car, but If you take the Autostrada from Bologna to Milan you can see it....

[Cobalt1959]

Clue. It's not a show car, but If you take the Autostrada from Bologna to Milan you can see it....

I don't know what it is, but it looks horrible.

[Cobalt1959]

It's based on a Fiat 600, but I don't know what purpose it serves. It is absolutely hideous.

[Dr Dave]

That's spooky. I have never even heard of a Holden and I'm almost 64 years old. Nice job Javier

Ken, I can't believe you haven't heard of Holden. It's Australia's national car and it's been around longer than you have. Check them out on google images and open the door to a whole new world Holden and Ford are the biggest rivals on the road, and the race track. Personally I don't like the new ones, it's the old ones for me.

I've not been able to identify anything in here yet.
Is that pink thing someones interpretation of what police cars should look like?

Dave.

[arimart]

Eddie you are quite close. Front end shot of a diecast is the only other picture I have.
By the way, I owned a Ghia Fiat 2300s coupé, that's why the Norsemann was easy to identify for me. Besides, a playfellow of mine was on the ship, aged one, with his parents. They survived but went broke: the whole production of their firm was in the ship, entirely sold to the US and Southern America. They produced accordions and organs, fellow countryman Farfisa (another famous producer of accordions, organs and later synthesizers) was five times smaller at the time. Parents told me of this incredibly beautiful car with a strange "cantilever" roof in one piece in the ship's hold

[arimart]

Hmmm too difficult probably. It's a Fiat 600 Multipla expressly made for Sagip Mangimi of Correggio (Reggio Emilia, near Modena) in 1960 by Carrozzeria Boneschi. Mangimi means animal feed. Boneschi, Coriasco and Fissore were leaders in the fifties-sixties and realized many incredible advertising vehicles, most famous of which are for Chlorodont, Durban's and Binaca toothpaste as the Fiat 1100/103 portrayed here. They always accompanied the caravan of cyclists at Giro d'Italia and drew a lot of attention and sympathy

[arimart]

Ok, new entry: insect I have seen (Marmon Wasp), mammal I have seen, it's the turn of fish. But what kind of fish is this one?

[hot ford coupe]

Ok, new entry: insect I have seen (Marmon Wasp), mammal I have seen, it's the turn of fish. But what kind of fish is this one?

Hey, if that were a Japanese made modern car like something out of Nissan or Honda, wouldn't it be a tuner fish??

[arimart]

You laugh at her but she's not touchy. She's laughing back at you

[arimart]

More and more difficult. Fish means water, here are other cars linked with water. Catch these if you can!

[jfonticobal]

Angelo: I think the fish is a FIAT with a special body. It is horrible.

The wood cars are a MG, Toppolino an VW.

Maybe the other one is a special Bugatti. lol lol

[arimart]

Javier you're right, it's really horrible indeed. It's a 1925-1926 Fiat 509 A "Delfino", one-off by Martelleria Italiana Riva - Milan. "Bouchonné" bare aluminium coach, worked with a cork wrapped in emery cloth and hand rotated to simulate fish scales, then painted with clear varnish to give a sense of sliminess. Running and even for rent. Bathtub is a joke, wooden cars are by a mad Venicean sculptor - see www.liviodemarchi.com - who amuses himself a lot with his floating creations (even a pumpkin coach with horses ).
I bet you'll catch this one in thirty seconds: first monovolume (MPV) in history!