Quick Trivia 3

Gummybr · October 26, 2020

On 10/24/2020 at 5:17 PM, iRage said:

Sorry for the delay...here you go..two pics to make it a bit easier

Looks a bit Volvo ish

iRage · October 26, 2020

3 minutes ago, Gummybr said:

Looks a bit Volvo ish

Might look Volvoish but not a Volvo..you did get the continent right though...

Gummybr · October 26, 2020

8 minutes ago, iRage said:

Might look Volvoish but not a Volvo..you did get the continent right though...

Well other that came to mind were the borgward isabella but the grille is different. Peugeot 403 again it doesn't have that top signal lamp

matroska · October 26, 2020

1 hour ago, iRage said:

you did get the continent right though.

just a wild guess - Skoda or something by AutoUnion/DKW?

Edited October 26, 2020 by matroska

Gummybr · October 26, 2020

21 minutes ago, matroska said:

just a wild guess - Skoda or something by AutoUnion/DKW?

Talking of Skoda's, they seemed to have some beautiful cars in the older days.

iRage · October 26, 2020

Still none of them but @Gummybr is really really close in terms of the brand name (again...brand name is close but not it).

MaleCortana · October 26, 2020

If it's Volvo-ish and closer to Skoda by name, perhaps it's a SAAB?

iRage · October 26, 2020

Nope....Gummybear was close in terms of the brand name...think of affiliates/subsidiary/parent-child brands.

Devinda_Z · October 26, 2020

On 10/24/2020 at 5:17 PM, iRage said:

Sorry for the delay...here you go..two pics to make it a bit easier

@iRage is it a Borgward Isabella TS Deluxe?

Or perhaps an Opel (Olympia, Rekord, Kapitan)??

iRage · October 26, 2020

1 minute ago, Devinda_Z said:

Borgward Isabella TS Deluxe

No...when a Bogward was not a Borgward it was a "XXX"? Then XXX was named with a word that sounds exactly like the Sinhala word for something that is related to a swan

Gummybr · October 26, 2020

1 minute ago, iRage said:

No...when a Bogward was not a Borgward it was a "XXX"? Then XXX was named with a word that sounds exactly like the Sinhala word for something that is related to a swan

Hansa? Thought it was a model. Any way Hansa 1100 or Goliath 1100

iRage · October 26, 2020

57 minutes ago, Gummybr said:

Hansa? Thought it was a model. Any way Hansa 1100 or Goliath 1100

Bingo !

Goliath was a part of the Bogward group...I believe they mainly focused on three-wheelers or scooters or something and a few small sized cars (three or four models ?). Initially their cars were badged as Goliath but later on they dropped the Goliath badge for their sedans because it was associated with three-wheelers and went with Hansa.

Over to you Gummy bear

Devinda_Z · October 26, 2020

1 hour ago, iRage said:

No...when a Bogward was not a Borgward it was a "XXX"? Then XXX was named with a word that sounds exactly like the Sinhala word for something that is related to a swan

OMG totally forgot they existed!

Gummybr · October 26, 2020

28 minutes ago, iRage said:

Bingo !

Goliath was a part of the Bogward group...I believe they mainly focused on three-wheelers or scooters or something and a few small sized cars (three or four models ?). Initially their cars were badged as Goliath but later on they dropped the Goliath badge for their sedans because it was associated with three-wheelers and went with Hansa.

Over to you Gummy bear

Quite a collection just rotting away. Is that a Humber Hawk on the left? Peugeot 203 and the other I dont know.

Ok then try for this.

iRage · October 26, 2020

26 minutes ago, Gummybr said:

Quite a collection just rotting away. Is that a Humber Hawk on the left? Peugeot 203 and the other I dont know

Yes ! It is those cars....the pic popped up on the Vintage lovers FB page as a barn find..no idea how old the actual pic is though.

matroska · October 26, 2020

5 hours ago, iRage said:

Bingo !

Goliath was a part of the Bogward group...I believe they mainly focused on three-wheelers or scooters or something and a few small sized cars (three or four models ?). Initially their cars were badged as Goliath but later on they dropped the Goliath badge for their sedans because it was associated with three-wheelers and went with Hansa.

Over to you Gummy bear

Really interesting stuff. That's an impressive set of cars.

4 hours ago, Gummybr said:

Quite a collection just rotting away. Is that a Humber Hawk on the left? Peugeot 203 and the other I dont know.

Ok then try for this.

Looks modern Toyoytaish ... Fortuner?

Gummybr · October 26, 2020

41 minutes ago, matroska said:

Really interesting stuff. That's an impressive set of cars.

Looks modern Toyoytaish ... Fortuner?

Yes sir, Toyota Fortuner it is

matroska · October 27, 2020

Sorry about the delay gentlemen. Let's try something different. This is a very common car which was being driven by a lawyer when he was killed in a suicide bomb attack.

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john cooper · October 27, 2020

6 hours ago, matroska said:

Sorry about the delay gentlemen. Let's try something different. This is a very common car which was being driven by a lawyer when he was killed in a suicide bomb attack.

Nissan Sunny FB14 is my guess for this. (Based on the headrest)

Edited October 27, 2020 by john cooper

Kavvz · October 27, 2020

6 hours ago, matroska said:

Sorry about the delay gentlemen. Let's try something different. This is a very common car which was being driven by a lawyer when he was killed in a suicide bomb attack.

I'm going to go with Nissan Sunny B13

matroska · October 28, 2020

6 hours ago, john cooper said:

Nissan Sunny FB14 is my guess for this. (Based on the headrest)

6 hours ago, Kavvz said:

I'm going to go with Nissan Sunny B13

Kavvz - You've missed by one model Good observation @john cooper - it was indeed a Sunny FB14. The assassinated individual was Dr. Neelan Thiruchelvam. As per this article the vehicle in question bore the number 300-2811. The floors yours JC.

P.S: This incident had occurred in 1999 - I was small but remember a friend of my father visiting us the very next day after this incident - he had been driving in the vicinity and there were small shards of glass stuck in his windshield cowl. The name stuck in my head and I always wondered what the victims car was. Remembered this incident recently did some googling and thanks to the internet a 21 year old question was solved

Edited October 28, 2020 by matroska
Some context

john cooper · October 28, 2020

This is one of the best off road vehicle.

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Gummybr · October 28, 2020

Lada Niva. Do we have any here?

matroska · October 28, 2020

45 minutes ago, Gummybr said:

Lada Niva. Do we have any here?

I don't think so - seeing less and less of the Riva's also - I guess most of the Rivas around now are running Jap engines?

iRage · October 28, 2020

56 minutes ago, Gummybr said:

Lada Niva. Do we have any here?

We used to have them. Back in the 80s the Russians were working at Ceylon Steel Corp (there was some partnership or co ownership or something). They had a fleet of Russian vehicles; most of which were Nivas...and a couple of buses that looked like LAX695 and some heavy machinery (cranes, etc...). My parents worked at Cey Stell Corp at the time and their Russian counterparts had Nivas...we had a family friend who would ocme over to dinner and he had a white 3 door Niva which I was obsessed over and always got on the driving seat and pretended to drive it (I was about 5 or 6). Decades later we paid a visit to Ceylon steel corp (around the early 90s) for a reunion and then saw some of the Nivas and a bus old rusted out and sitting in the middle of nowhere (Ceylon steel corp occupied more than just a few acres and had large sports grounds, factory area, a lake and forest). I suppose they all just rusted away.