What’s My Car.

I walked past this today.  With a bit of judicious googling and educated guesses I think I know what’s under the tarp.

Any resident petrolheads care to have a guess?

Lotus Esprit S3 or Unimog. Can’t decide.

Trident Clipper

Lancia Stratos.

Or James Bond’s Lotus Esprit with the skis on the back hanging forward over roof.

Marcos?

It’s the Alleycats that are confusing me.

Those wheels look TVR ish

Very low bonnet screams ginetta but i can fathom the sharp bits.

TVR Tasmin?

Something like a triumph herald convertible? It’s got (actual) wing mirrors and a screen but nothing to the rear above the quarter panel.

Dutton Phaeton ? (Crappy 70s or 80s kit car)

Capri

Hibernating cockchafer

Do not wake it up!

No idea but that’s the worst wrap I’ve ever seen.

Satsuma castanet.

Surfmatt’s 3 series?

Some Stratos-a-like kit car? – Though the sharp front is a bit high

Whatever it is. WTF is it doing there? (all the time??)

Nevermind the car there’s a Lidl and Tesco in close proximity

What a time to be alive and in need of groceries!!

Toyota Supra Mk2 with raised popup lamps.

A terrible time to have such a small car though…Tesco OR Lidl, but not both.

Something like a triumph herald convertible?

Would have been my guess. Or a Sunbeam Alpine.
Some sort of early 60’s soft top.

Europa S2?

Ford escort

They look like Leyland wheels and ex of mine has on an earlier mini, but that’s no mini…

Fiat X19 or a Triumph TR7?

something that WCA has built?

Something like a triumph herald convertible?

If – IF – I’m correct, this is the closest guess so far.

Contrary to how it might immediately appear, I believe that the nose of the car is on the left in this picture.

It’s a marque no longer in production.

the nose of the car is on the left

Batmobile

Vitesse?

Hillman Minx maybe? I used to have those style Alleycats on a Imp.

Triumph Vitesse with the roof down?

It’s an early Popemobile prototype made from holy fibreglass

Every time there was a problem with the fibreglass Il Papa fixed it via the laying on of hands

It’s an early Popemobile prototype made from holy fibreglass

Every time there was a problem with the fibreglass Il Papa fixed it via the laying on of hands

White smoke from the exhaust will confirm

Hillman Minx maybe?

Bingo. 👏👏

A Super Minx I think.  I’ll swing back over and ask them at some point, and report back.  I could, of course, be wildly incorrect.

My first car was a Super Minx. Not the earlier convertible though, a MK4 Estate with the mighty 1725cc engine.

Ford escort

Have you ever seen a Ford Escort?

That’s a Mk1, there’s loads of others, but I can’t find any that’ll show up on the site.
Pretty sure it ain’t an Esky.

I think half of us thought it was pointing the other way.

I am not saying youare wrong… But i feel the front and back are too different in height for a minx.

Nevermind the car there’s a Lidl and Tesco in close proximity

Is it the Tesco? Ask the security guard, it’s probably his. 😉

If the front is on the left, as it looks like it might be due to where the wing mirrors are, then it’s got a fairly short bonnet, and then a fairly steep windscreen. Doesn’t look like it has a roof,  ot up anyway, and then a very low rear end. Quite blunt ends and not much ground clearance.

Mini Moke maybe? Although it does look a little long for that, could be camera angle. The wheels do look a bit 80s Lotus