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Alessandro58 ◊ 2010-05-25 14:26	-- Last edit: 2011-01-26 17:28:50
Alessandro58 ◊ 2010-05-25 19:58	After several researches without any result, I think it's a "made/modified for movie" car. The characters mention a few details about the car: It consumes 25 liters/100 km and is equipped with 6 cylinder engine. It also has a white body color and morocco red seats ("marocchino rosso"). -- Last edit: 2011-01-26 17:19:29
vilero ◊ 2010-05-25 20:10	The front clip could be based on Packard 51-53 but the body work looks different
130rapid ◊ 2010-05-25 20:34	In the movie white convertible was main lottery prize. Allemano's FIATs had similar (not same!) front.
sixcyl ◊ 2010-05-25 22:56	It look like those toys of the fifties ... here a plastic Norev 1/70th scale of the early 50's
-- ◊ 2010-05-26 09:15	The car can be seen here in a garage with a "Tassi & Rivoli" sign in the background. Both are names of italian coachbuilders, or it's just a name coincidence. /vehicle_304625.html
Alessandro58 ◊ 2010-05-26 10:27	Thanks @kegare for the hint. Tassi & Rivoli was a car dealer at piazza Fiume in Rome. But I dont'know if he was also a coachbuilder. -- Last edit: 2010-05-26 10:28:41
electra225 ◊ 2010-05-26 12:00	I don't think at all it was. It has never been mentioned as a coachbuilder in any good book, for instance "Milleruote" of the mid 70's which was really a bible for me...nor by other sources.
-- ◊ 2010-05-26 23:39	Tassi was the name of a designer or coachbuilder (?) for Lancia and Fiat, and the name "Rivoli" was associated with some Corre La Licorne cars. But this probably does not mean anything, it was just a parenthesis.
Chelmersteve ◊ 2010-05-31 14:12	Something based on the SIMCA 8?
pilou ◊ 2010-06-01 15:22	Perhaps another hint :the sloping hood line and grille design are exactly identical to Bertone's design of the first Fiat 1100 Berlinetta Stanguellini roadcar issued in 1948 .This fastback berlinetta had a much shorter track and wheelbase than this convertible that appears to have very long almost disproportionate ones for a convertible.So , could it be a one off Bertone / Nuccio design on a long Fiat or Lancia base made or not for the movie ? Perhaps the dashboard design could help . So far I checked , it is not an Alfa Romeo 2500 dash.
Alessandro58 ◊ 2010-06-01 23:07	Indeed very similar front as pilou says: Bertone Stanguellini: Link to "www.prova.de" http://images.forum-auto.com/mesimages/583791/scannarTop.jpg1..jpg -- Last edit: 2010-06-01 23:24:16
Bob Dieck ◊ 2011-01-27 16:48	I suggest to look again the photo of the 1950 Cadillac. This white car has very similar dimmensions to the Cadillac.
fgsavoia ◊ 2011-06-19 15:15	1949 Simca Bertone 1200 Cabriolet -- Last edit: 2011-06-19 15:17:44
DynaMike ◊ 2011-06-19 16:15	Wheelbase is much too long to be a Simca...
fgsavoia ◊ 2011-06-23 22:46	I'm quite sure that's a Bertone coachwork, and a Simca nose but, you're right, i didn't notice the huge wheelbase....
DynaMike ◊ 2011-09-30 11:15	Seems that the solution is found in Autopuzzles.com http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=17647.0 "Al Circuito del Monrenero, disputato a fine agosto a Livorno, esordì, con al volante Enrico Nardi, anche la 8 cilindri 1500. Questa vettura, anche se reclamizzata solo sol secondo numero di "Interauto" del 1948, venne trasformata in un lussuoso cabriolet a quattro posti con carrozzeria Bertone per Marco Fabio Crespi, detto Rudy, e dal nome del proprietario derivò la denominazione di Nardi-Danese Marco."
Alessandro58 ◊ 2011-10-22 17:36	DynaMike wrote Seems that the solution is found in Autopuzzles.com Thanks DynaMike for your efforts! I saw only now, that you found the solution!
DynaMike ◊ 2011-10-22 17:40
aquila ◊ 2020-04-25 00:44	Why did people stop making cars like these?
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2020-04-25 09:38	aquila wrote Why did people stop making cars like these? Because they were too expensive and not enough people could afford to buy them. The whole of the history of cars is strewn with things like this, there is only room for very few expensive low production cars, most folk need cheap transport and the motor industry cannot survive without making designs it can sell in large quantities.
dsl ◊ 2020-04-25 13:26	... and because it looks like a sad fish.
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2020-04-25 17:19	https://www.classiccarcatalogue.com/LEA%20FRANCIS%201960.html
aquila ◊ 2020-04-25 18:49	haha I like this car even more maybe it's a matter of taste dsl wrote ... and because it looks like a sad fish. johnfromstaffs wrote https://www.classiccarcatalogue.com/LEA%20FRANCIS%201960.html -- Last edit: 2020-04-25 18:50:50
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2020-04-25 20:22	Things got better later, (look up Nardi Blue Ray) but for Lea Francis they didn’t, the Lynx was their last gasp after years of struggle and bankruptcy. The “Ace of Spades” cars were under new management much later on. https://www.supercars.net/blog/1958-lancia-nardi-blue-ray-ii/ The best shot from Lea Francis https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23593/lot/222/ -- Last edit: 2020-04-25 20:37:48

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