Auto quiz 457

[carsntrucks4you]

A new week had started and here is the new quiz.

As usual sent PM with Year, Make and Type.

 

Edited December 16, 2019 by carsntrucks4you

[matthijsgrit]

IS this car photoshopped??? Interesting creature...

[carsntrucks4you]

18 hours ago, matthijsgrit said:

IS this car photoshopped??? Interesting creature...

No

[matthijsgrit]

36 minutes ago, carsntrucks4you said:

No

I know... the thought crossed my mind because of the strange proportions...

Edited December 17, 2019 by matthijsgrit

[carsntrucks4you]

One final hint.It is again a car from South America

 

[carsntrucks4you]

As I said again a car from South America. Uruguay wasn't a big car manufacture but there were some company's that are build cars in Uruguay. In most case they were based on car that were sold in Brazil or Agentina. But this one is based on a car from Great Britan. The base was a Vauxhall Viva HB. Beleave it or not it is a pickup in this case with a rear cover over the box. It is a Grumett 1825 SL. About 2000 cars were build between 1968/11970 (depending on source) - 1977. Beside the pickup a van and a rare coupe that looks like a Opel Kadett B were sold. 

 

The correct answer were sent in by

ChrisR

Matthijsgrit

dw1603

GeeBee

 

Congratulations

 

 

[Ace-Garageguy]

The little bugger is obviously based on the Opel Kadett B, the progenitor of the badge-engineered Vauxhaul mentioned above...but try as I might, I couldn't find a South American derivative. It occurred to me to look for a Vauxhaul derivative, but I didn't follow through.

Edited December 21, 2019 by Ace-Garageguy

[stitchdup]

49 minutes ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

The little bugger is obviously based on the Opel Kadett B, the progenitor of the badge-engineer Vauxhaul mentioned above...but try as I might, I couldn't find a South American derivative. It occurred to me to look for a Vauxhaul derivative, but I didn't follow through.

I think opel may have been marketed as opalas in south america

[Bucky]

I got as far as a Vauxhall Viva. Ran out of time to keep searching. LoL

[dw1603]

11 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

The little bugger is obviously based on the Opel Kadett B, the progenitor of the badge-engineered Vauxhaul mentioned above...but try as I might, I couldn't find a South American derivative. It occurred to me to look for a Vauxhaul derivative, but I didn't follow through.

Hi Bill, 

The Kadett B and the HB Viva were definitely related (cousins?) but I’m not sure that I would agree that the Kadett was the progenitor of the badge engineered Viva. They were both designed to the same GM spec, but in those days there was much rivalry between Vauxhall and Opel. They ostensibly shared a floor pan, but one was metric, the other Imperial (American) In my experience, there wasn’t a lot that would interchange between the two. This all changed with the next generation Kadett C (GM World car), Vauxhall introduced a limited range called the Chevette. They managed to make it uglier than the original but still used their own mechanicals, which differed from the Opel stuff. Still not a lot of interchangeability as I discovered when restoring an Opel C Coupé. The Grommet may have been Viva based, but there were a lot of Opel influences in the styling, which caused me to waste a lot of time too.

Dave

 

[W-409]

Another really good one! An alternative version of a Vauxhall Viva came to my mind but couldn't find the right answer in time.