Range Rover Recovery Automotive Trivia Game

[Disco96JSWB]

How many (makes and models) can you name?

[rvrsrvc]

Ok, I'll try:
Fiat; Renault Gordini; couldbeprettybutIdon'tknowwhatitisFiat?; Saab 96.
And when did you take the RRC to the Eastern Bloc? Preparing for some Top Gear episode? Making your own show of obscure? I know, trying to win a prize at the Orphaned Car Show in Michigan!

[Orange92]

Not that I think I can do better than Trevor, I think both of the first two are Renaults, third is a NSU Prinz, and the fourth definitely a Saab 96.
Andy

[Rob P]

I never knew emerging markets contained derelict foreign cars as well.

My mom had one of these in a 2 door model:
http://www.ritmo-world.com/pictures/7_galery/7_2/pic058.jpg

[rvrsrvc]

Good call Andy, I fired up the google machine and found a NSU Prinz Sport 1000 that looks like #3!
What is that Rob, the Fiat Panda?

[Disco96JSWB]

Pretty good!
Renault R12
Renault R15
NSU Sport Prinz
Saab 96 (3 cyl 2-stroke, not later V-4)

I have a friend with a passion for cars nobody else wants and helped him move these (plus a 1959 FIAT 500 and a 1966 VW Type III fastback) from one building in Philadelphia to another.

The Range Rover was the perfect tool for the job.

[Disco96JSWB]

Good call Andy, I fired up the google machine and found a NSU Prinz Sport 1000 that looks like #3!
What is that Rob, the Fiat Panda?

That's a FIAT Strada. My friend has one of those too, and a 131 sedan, and a 128 3P, and a 128 2-door sedan (that he drives to the train station every day).

I think the Strada rusted so badly back in the day that the engines fell out, like the Lancia Beta.

[Rob P]

Yes-sir, the Strada was made of rust with a thin coat of paint to hold it together while it travelled on the boat to America.

Boy oh boy would that thing scream though.

http://blog.petaflop.de/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/old-car-altes-auto-oldtimer-rusty-verrosteter-rostiger-chitina-alaska-usa-dscn1899.jpg

[sven]

This is an amusing thread. I was just driving around town today and saw a Fiat Strada parked. The last time I saw one of those was in Germany ;)

[Rob P]

My mom found out the hard way that the Fiat gas cap wasn't a typical item. It was a fine threaded female cap. She left it behind at a gas station and had to replace it. Not cheap to locate. She wound up with a locking cap and put the key on her ring with the car key so she wouldn't lose it.

[Disco96JSWB]

This is an amusing thread. I was just driving around town today and saw a Fiat Strada parked. The last time I saw one of those was in Germany ;)

No joke, my friend would be interested in the one you saw, Sven. What color? I assume it's a two-door?

Here's one I found on a little country road in Maine while on vacation a couple of years ago. It does suffer from typical rust . . . (Who would buy a FIAT in Maine??)

- Jeremy

[Rob P]

oh the memories of mom's Fiat days.......

Did I mention that it had been the "demo" car at the Bel Air MD dealership and reverse would pop out and towards the end reversing was more a grind and hold affair?