By Robert Emslie
The nineteen seventies produced some mighty fine TV murder mystery shows. Hour long dramas like McCloud, Columbo and Kojak filled the screen with whodunits and pithy dialog, all while wrapping up a seemingly unsolvable crime in a mere 60 minutes, with commercials!
Well, we don’t have a murder scene, but we do have a body, or at least a partial one, and it’s now up to you to play detective and solve the mystery of its identity. Most times that’s found in under an hour, so perhaps we’ll have time for more commercials at the end.
You know the rules, but like a pat TV plot, you also know that I’m going to repeat them here. They are, make, model, year-range, and likely engine for the win. Hopefully today’s contest will be engaging enough that you won’t want to start flipping channels.
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Kamil Kaluski
some sort of kei truck
NSX
Me thinks I am looking at a rear window (black piece) bottom and a vent in front a bonnet opening of a mid-engined, possibly Italian due to color, car.
Good thing that there aren't many of those.
Also, I could be, may very well be, totally wrong.
Was thinking the same. Gas cap door on the left there.
EDIT:
Hmmm. Gas cap door on the right also. Must be a dual engined, dual gas tanked, mid-engined Italian car.
I've just narrowed the field significantly.
S'pose those are headlights. Which would invalidate all previous assumptions. Dang.
I thought of this…
<img src="http://www.gta.cz/data/gta4/doprava/sentinel.jpg">
…but the slats go the wrong way.
If it is a front grille, it's got to be from a late-'90s Daewoo or something.
I say AC 3000ME
So 1979-1984 (I'd say a late model) with a with the 3.0-litre Ford Essex V6
<img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1421/5142789527_61c698e86c.jpg">
At this point I should just delete my earlier comment and show myself to the bar.
I agree everything looks good for your guess, but…
assuming that the black bit is the front bumper, then shouldn't there be an AC badge "above" the grille work
A search for AC 3000ME on flickr turned up the uncropped version of the Mystery Car photo:
<img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5082/5330996084_da18e90c5d.jpg" width="350">
The person who posted it was using it as the basis of a guessing game as well, hence the suppressed badge:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/albertsbite/53309960…
Other examples appear to have had it mounted lower anyway:
<img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8060/8151618647_a619d04d5c.jpg" width="350">
You're right, but I'll keep on hoping… maybe 'shopped?
C'mon, just tell me I'm right and I'll party all night long on an beautiful beach in southern Italy having multiple toasts in your honor
You're right ferser, congrats, good work, and enjoy the beach!
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