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October 7, 2008

Guess What Car and What Motor

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Then click through to the ride page to see if you were right.

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Comments

justin sable
Oct 10, 2008 at 9:15 pm

Studebaker with an LT1.

Phil Racicot
Oct 10, 2008 at 3:21 am

Oh, it’s a Rover V8, so it’s almost a Buick V8!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rover_V8_engine

Phil Racicot
Oct 10, 2008 at 3:14 am

The engine looks like a Buick V8

valek
Oct 8, 2008 at 4:06 pm

i guess a volvo amazon by the grille, with a blown ford v8?

artie99
Oct 8, 2008 at 1:17 am

You could have put the distance shots of the front and side up and I still would have been wrong.
I love that Volvo body style.

SpeedCanHurt
Oct 7, 2008 at 11:09 pm

No way I could have guessed that. There should be a prize if you do.

Austin
Oct 7, 2008 at 8:27 pm

Well, I got the car right..not so much on the engine.

oldscoob
Oct 7, 2008 at 6:28 pm

A lancia flavia with its boxer engine in storage, replaced with a weaker v8.

melville248
Oct 7, 2008 at 5:10 pm

I don’t know, but I think I saw this is the Christmas parade last year.

GTwildfire
Oct 7, 2008 at 4:42 pm

I’ll go out on a limb here… a Vega with a blown Chevy big block?

kap0w
Oct 7, 2008 at 3:18 pm

Wow… I knew I’d be wrong, but I didn’t know just *how* wrong ;)

Andy
Oct 7, 2008 at 2:21 pm

I would guess a 390 FE Ford engine in a 144 Volvo or whatever that model volvo was with the kidney grill.

That picture shows some funky shocks though. The bay (besides the engine) looks european, like the British layland MGB’s
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Just checked to see if I was right….Damn.
Got the brand right, got the model wrong. I was off by one model.
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Waay off on the engine too.

Jake
Oct 7, 2008 at 2:09 pm

Damn, I wasn’t even close. All I knew was that the motor wasn’t a chevy… lol

Tony Cassa
Oct 7, 2008 at 12:39 pm

Well the engine is a Ford as the distributor is in the front, whereas Chevy’s have it at the rear. However I cannot tell what cubic inch the engine would be.

So that rules out it being in a Trans Am, plus the engine bay is too small for a Trans Am.

I think it could be something like a Studebaker, or even a Willy’s.

Guyon
Oct 7, 2008 at 11:39 am

Couldn’t guess the motor, but for the car, maybe a 73 Trans-am?

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