It's Monday morning, time for DT's mystery guessing game known as What Am I? Today, we've got a picture of an engine -- you get to guess the car.
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Hindustan Ambassador?
ReplyDeleteItalian American....
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ReplyDeleteThe valve cover makes it look like a Mercedes 2.2 OM601 diesel - perhaps this is the commercial version retrofitted to something older, like a Ponton car?
ReplyDeleteNot sure, but I think the key clue is the hood prop.
ReplyDeleteElton John?
DeleteLooks '50s round, but the plastic tanks looks '80s or newer; the big cylindrical air filter says 'third world'.
ReplyDeleteLHD which means not UK, Japan, HK, India, or various other places (unless someone flipped the image)
I want to guess that it's actually an American car('57 Chevy?) in Cuba with one of those engine swaps from some Russian or Eastern European diesel.
ReplyDeleteI like the way you are thinking.
DeleteAfter looking around a little more, I think the engine is from South Korea, from a ssangyong/Mercedes? The vehicle, still in Cuba, I dunno.
DeleteThis image of a 2005 Musso 2.9L turbodiesel looks similar?
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It would have to be an extensive swap, involving not just the engine but a late-model power brake setup with a dual-circuit plastic-reservoir master cylinder. But I suppose it's possible.
DeleteYou guys are good. Very good. You've got the engine and location, just not vehicle.
DeleteSeems also that the windshield wipers cross in the middle (i.e. mounts are at the corners of window and go opposite directions). This could be a good future question for BAT, which is all cars that use this design (I suppose their is an official term for this system)
ReplyDeleteRegardless of what might be good on that other website, this is DT ;-)
DeleteCorrect good sir. I will claim that as a Monday foul that will not be repeated.
DeleteI dunno. The world's fastest Volga pickup?
ReplyDeletestrange hood shape - 58 Coronet?
ReplyDeleteDitto- '53 Bel Air?
DeleteBP -- you got it! A '53 Chevy Sedan, update the post with a pic of the car now.
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DeleteWhen we took a taxi ride (pictured above) in a 1955 Dodge painted pink -- not an original color -- I detected that the engine didn't rumble like a 1950s V-8 should. I asked the driver if the car still had its original engine. "Oh no," he said proudly. "It has a Mercedes diesel."
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cbsnews.com/news/wayback-machines-the-classic-cars-of-cuba/
Some where in Havana....lol Amazing a lot of there cars seem to have chessy aftermarket wheels....
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