Ok, the rules are the same as the stump the motorheads game, except you post a picture of a mystery car and other people have to guess it.
Lets start out with this car
http://www.pistonheads.com/news/images/5083-1.jpg

Good one, I’m clueless

It might be a Nissan/Datsun, but other than that, I don’t have the faintest…

Is it fair to just do a well crafted google search and get the answer?  Or is that contrary to the game?

Wil in NH - 03 May 2009 04:49 PM

Is it fair to just do a well crafted google search and get the answer?  Or is that contrary to the game?

I dont care, as long as you find the answer

My closest guess is the Ferrari 412(i know it’s wrong). My other guesses were either Lamborghini or Maserati.

Bitter SC.  I’m bogged down with finals, someone else take my turn.

BMW7series - 03 May 2009 10:34 PM

My closest guess is the Ferrari 412(i know it’s wrong).

Not a bad guess, but the correct answer is a Bitter SC.  It looks a lot like the 412, and it was often rumored that Erich [Bitter] copied a lot of the lines from that GT 2+2 Ferrari.

The wheels in that picture are not correct.

How do I know?  I own two.  Not to brag, but you HAVE to own at least two to keep one running.

It’s the rarest of rares, with only 450 or so ever made.  Ever. (About 1/5th of the Ferrari 412 production.) Built for about 5 years starting in the early eighties, there were only a few hundred that made it stateside.  Of those, about 10% were stickshift, and 10% had a sunroof.  Engines were a blend of Opal block and custom head; a 3.0 liter straight six, GM/Bosch Jetronic fuel injection, later bored out to 3.9 liters.  Mine is a 3.0 liter stickshift sunroof car, which I suspect may be the only survivor in the US.  The parts car is a 3.9 liter auto.

The first car the German bicycling and roadrace champion Erich Bitter built was a great deal like the Italia of the same era.  Curvy, big fastback glass, and huge American V8 power.  Erich was disenchanted with Italia, as he was the German rep for the company.  Beautiful cars Italia, but quality control was poor.  Erich designed the Bitter “CD”, which was a flowing curvy brute.  Unfortunately, not many were sold, and this car is painfully rare today and commands some pretty high prices.

Later, Erich decided to build his own car, with Opal’s help. The SC you see above. Chassis was from the Opal Commodore, and Bitter first had the Italian-deisgned body made in Italy, with poor results.  The original plan was to have Opal sell this car, but Opal declined after seeing the prototype and deciding there wasn’t sufficient market.  Erich appealed and asked if he could build the car under his own brand name, with Opal/GM supplying the right kit and Bitter providing the body (now made in Germany) and assembly.

Sales were not great at all, considering the 75,000DM price in the early 80’s for a car that looks like it should perform a great deal better.  While no slouch, it’s a heavy pig of a car.  Maserati style interior, huge tires, and power everything made this a Gentleman’s GT (not unlike the 412) but hardly the supercar expected to be on par with Maserati or Lamborghini of the era.

Difficult, but not impossible to find, Bitter SC’s defy collector status because they are ironically too rare, troublesome to maintain, and really not that spectacular of a car to begin with.

Anyhow, here’s some pics of mine in my shop, at night - the quality is lacking:

http://www.ssdiv.com/bit0.jpg

http://www.ssdiv.com/bit1.jpg

http://www.ssdiv.com/bit2.jpg

http://www.ssdiv.com/bit3.jpg

No, I’m not affiliate with the NY Daily News, nor do I know Rhianna:

http://www.ssdiv.com/page23.jpg

So what do I win??  I already know what question I’m going to ask ...  I just have to find a picture.  It’s another car I owned (briefly) but was unable to restore due to a total lack of parts.

best-

-steve

BoostedE21 got it before I could post.  I was slow taking the pictures.  Anyhow, he passed his turn, so…

The car I *was* thinking of was a Borgward Isabella Princess, but I couldn’t find a picture.  So here’s another car, which I almost bought. (There’s a clue in there!) I’m a bit of a masochist and never like to see strays if they’re rare and/or bizzare enough:

http://www.ssdiv.com/zoomzoom.jpg

Too easy?  Probably.  But not everyone thinks about the cars I do.

-steve

SteveRacer - 04 May 2009 12:38 AM

BoostedE21 got it before I could post.  I was slow taking the pictures.  Anyhow, he passed his turn, so…

The car I *was* thinking of was a Borgward Isabella Princess, but I couldn’t find a picture.  So here’s another car, which I almost bought. (There’s a clue in there!) I’m a bit of a masochist and never like to see strays if they’re rare and/or bizzare enough:

http://www.ssdiv.com/zoomzoom.jpg

Too easy?  Probably.  But not everyone thinks about the cars I do.

-steve

Isn’t that the original Fiat 500?

is that one of the commie clunkers from the show???

D@niel - 04 May 2009 10:01 AM

SteveRacer - 04 May 2009 12:38 AM

BoostedE21 got it before I could post.  I was slow taking the pictures.  Anyhow, he passed his turn, so…

The car I *was* thinking of was a Borgward Isabella Princess, but I couldn’t find a picture.  So here’s another car, which I almost bought. (There’s a clue in there!) I’m a bit of a masochist and never like to see strays if they’re rare and/or bizzare enough:

http://www.ssdiv.com/zoomzoom.jpg

Too easy?  Probably.  But not everyone thinks about the cars I do.

-steve

Isn’t that the original Fiat 500?

Correction: now I think it’s actually the Fiat 600…

Looks like a 600

Ahhhhh..

Nope, nope, no, and no.

-steve   (feeling somewhat vindicated)

Very interesting. By the way, in the first pic of the white car, the side marker lights appear to be US spec, and from GM. I think they might be from older Pontiac models.

Is it a SEAT (Spainish Fiat)