Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Slashed Names

By Peter Tanshanomi Jul 13, 2015

slashes
No, not car names that were ruthlessly discontinued, or hacked by a machete-wielding maniac. Today’s automotive quandary involves the slash character. As with the examples shown above, your task is to list all the cars that use one, somewhere in the name.
Here are the caveats (there are always caveats):

  • Vehicles need not be mass produced or street-legal, but they need to be from a real manufacturer or a historically significant builder. (That means no references to some Craigslist gem the current owners christened “The Bob/Edna Special.” It has to be a legit and recognizable name—if only to Dr. Harrell.)
  • The slash character should be part of the car’s name in some official and definitive way. No nicknames, dealer names, component names, or general descriptors.
  • Unlike the examples shown, the slash does NOT have to appear on the vehicle.

Difficulty: Do not try and recall the low-hanging fruit; that’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize that there is no low-hanging fruit.
How This Works: Read the comments first and don’t post duplicates. Bonus points for adding photos. Remember, you can simply paste in the raw image URL now, thanks to the magic of Disqus.
Image Source: Tommy’s Car Blog. Second image source unknown.

By Peter Tanshanomi

Tanshanomi is Japanese [単車のみ] for "motorcycle(s) only." Though primarily tasked with creating two-wheel oriented content for Hooniverse, Pete is a lover of all sorts of motorized vehicles.

0 thoughts on “Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Slashed Names”
    1. Dodge simply made a T/A Challenger. It was cheaper to keep it semi ambiguous then to pay a royalty on each Trans Am sold.

    1. Who would have thought they’ll become an American manufacturer one day, making cars in 1/1 size…?

    1. Moto Madness beat me to the post, damn refresh ! Good Job –
      (The 73 LWB Toaster pictured above was my 13th birthday present, thanks Dad ! )

    1. As a young lad in pre-internet times, the W-nomenclatura, /8 as the “old guys”-name and what really was mounted on the trunklid was sufficiently confusing to not care about Mercedes.

  1. 1914 A.L.F.A 40/60 HP Aerodinamica by Castagna (story and pictures below)
    http://www.carstyling.ru/resources/entries/3596/1914_Castagna_Alfa_40-60HP_Aerodinamica_01.jpg
    http://www.carstyling.ru/resources/entries/3596/1914_Castagna_Alfa_40-60HP_Aerodinamica_03.jpg
    http://www.carstyling.ru/resources/entries/3596/1914_Castagna_Alfa_40-60HP_Aerodinamica_04.jpg
    “The Italian count Mario Ricotti turned out to be quite a visionary. His
    idea that popular cars of the future would be highly aerodynamic “one
    box” people carriers was extraordinarily prescient.
    When Count Ricotti commissioned this stunning machine from the Italian
    coachbuilder Carrozzeria Castagna, he was said to be in awe of the
    fashionable airships of that period.
    Ricotti may have been eccentric, but he wasn’t stupid. When he grew
    tired of his new toy, he removed the body and had an open tourer built
    on the chassis.”
    http://www.carstyling.ru/resources/entries/3596/1914_Castagna_Alfa_40-60HP_Aerodinamica_Torpedo.jpg
    (Count Ricotti at the wheel, with who i suppose are his three mistresses.)

    1. I believe the original aluminum-bodied Aerodinamica was sacrificed for the war effort and the color photos above are of the reproduction version that was made recently.

  2. Surely in the category of ‘low-hanging fruit’:
    Ferraris 365 GTB/4 (aka ‘Daytona’) and 365 GTC/4.

  3. I’m going to push the envelope here…
    After the 3rd generation Falcon concluded production, the Falcon name was used as a base trim level on the Fairlane. It was marketed as a “70 1/2” Falcon. So, while not a part of the official name, the marketing was there.
    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Ford_Falcon_Coupe_%28Les_chauds_vendredis_%2710%29.jpg/1280px-Ford_Falcon_Coupe_%28Les_chauds_vendredis_%2710%29.jpg

    1. A fine tradition; continued today:
      (Well, “6.75 litre” would just be plebian — wouldn’t it?)

  4. I want to say my buddy’s 1984 Datsun Nissan Maxima had a slash on the emblem between Datsun and Nissan on the left and then just a plain Maxima emblem on the right of the trunk, but I could be mistaken. It was 13 years ago that i last saw that badge.

  5. AC Cobra 427S/C. (EDIT: Yes, that’s a die cast. Went with a clear fake instead of a real-looking fake 😉

  6. Glickenhaus’s ‘Ferrari P4/5 by Pininfarina’ is both “from a real manufacturer” and “a historically significant builder”. And it has a slash.

  7. We will disappear down a rabbit hole if you start to accept entries like this into your Hoonipedia:
    McLaren MP4/4
    (and every other McLaren formula one entry since 1981)

    1. And if ‘because racecar’ is an acceptable category then I will also bring you;
      Alfa Romeo T33/3 (and all of the other Tipo 33 variants)
      and a Porsche 917/30 (and all of the other variants).

    1. Saab rather cubed and fived (?) their nine’s, while Volvo’s mathematics were rather simple. Can’t come up with a relevant example.

      1. No mechanical changes from standard, just a spoiler and sticker package on a car that was near the end of it’s model life, so really just a bit of a yawn.

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