Subject: Help identify a forest wreck
02/05/2011 @ 20:53:58: atom: Help identify a forest wreck
I found this pictures in a thread about forest wrecks at a Swedish forum, the pictures is taken somewhere in Sweden. There is no info about the car but I would be interested to know what it might be. DAF555 had an idea that it might be Italian and that it could perhaps be a coachbuilt Fiat 600?

Any ideas?

http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/502/sany0193.jpg
http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/3971/sany0192x.jpg

The thread: http://www.garaget.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=87726&p=25
03/05/2011 @ 19:55:28: ingo: Help identify a forest wreck
Humm, it looks indeed Italian, like a "pocket"-Aurelia somehow. The steering-wheel is Fiat-style.

I've asked Martin, the junkyard-expert http://www.icmesa.com/tinhunter/ Maybe he even has seen it by himself.
05/05/2011 @ 12:32:14: ingo: Help identify a forest wreck
Huh, it's not easy. Though car and scrapyard are known in the scrap-car-spotter- and junkyard-freak-scene (the world is not that big... :grin: ) noone could identify it until now, not even the motor-journalists, "tinhunter" Martin has asked.
But now he has a front pic, not only a bad one of the back.

Martin suggests, that the next photographer notices the production-plates :smile:
He asked, if there's a possibility, if it's maybe something selfmade. This happend in Sweden back then sometimes.
22/05/2011 @ 00:32:47: ingo: Help identify a forest wreck
@atom: it's not forgotten. "tinhunter" Martin wrote me, that this pic had goated his ambition, so he is continuing to find the answer.
22/05/2011 @ 05:12:32: atom: Help identify a forest wreck
Nice to hear that more people find it interesting! I have sent a PM to the uploader and he said he would take a picture of the chassis plate next time he went back there.
28/05/2011 @ 15:38:18: ingo: Help identify a forest wreck
Good news, "Tinhunter" Martin thinks, he got it. Fiat 600 "Rendez Vous", built between 1955 and 1959 by Vignale. :smile:

It ws a hard nut, he wrote to me. For that he would like to give an assignment to you, atom :wink: A translation. He'll send the email soon.
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