Mystery Car

Robert Emslie

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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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13 responses to “Mystery Car”

  1. jeandodo Avatar
    jeandodo

    some sort of kei truck

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  2. FreeMan Avatar
    FreeMan

    NSX

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  3. Kamil_K Avatar
    Kamil_K

    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.

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    1. Irishzombieman☆ Avatar
      Irishzombieman☆

      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.

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      1. Irishzombieman☆ Avatar
        Irishzombieman☆

        S'pose those are headlights. Which would invalidate all previous assumptions. Dang.

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        1. FuzzyPlushroom Avatar
          FuzzyPlushroom

          I thought of this…
          <img src="http://www.gta.cz/data/gta4/doprava/sentinel.jpg"&gt;
          …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.

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  4. Giordi Avatar
    Giordi

    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"&gt;

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    1. Kamil_K Avatar
      Kamil_K

      At this point I should just delete my earlier comment and show myself to the bar.

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  5. 330 4HL Avatar
    330 4HL

    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

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    1. mdharrell Avatar
      mdharrell

      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&quot; 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&quot; width="350">

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  6. Giordi Avatar
    Giordi

    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

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    1. ˏ♂ˊ mzs zsm msz esq Avatar
      ˏ♂ˊ mzs zsm msz esq

      You're right ferser, congrats, good work, and enjoy the beach!

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  7. mkbruin Avatar
    mkbruin

    Magnum PI?_ _http://news.wyotech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/magnumpiferrari308.jpg

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