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Sud 145 wrote:The Fitch Phoenix was featured in an episode of Chasing Classic Cars a while back Lauren.

Ah - that would explain it.

I don't have cable or satellite, so I guess I won't see that episode for a while yet!

I could have just known it,

Have some faith you lot!



I'd never seen it myself before Google!

Kegsti66 wrote:Lauren, I am led to believe this car has been fitted with an 350cu in engine.
The interior is beautiful, and original and the leather is so soft.
Glad you like it. Thanks.

Of course - it's a later Series 2 model (1970 onwards) so would have used the 350 engine, which was current at the time. I suspect the factory were too busy trying to stay afloat to be worrying about blueprinting by then.

No, thank YOU for posting pictures of this superb car. I've met the owner of the red 7-litre CanAm Grifo on several occasions, his big problem is the price of fuel

Looks like picture was taken at the Auto Italia concours at Stanford Hall?

Lauren

You do know your stuff. It was Stanford Hall and may have been the meet I saw your car at as well. I have seen the green machine twice but never met you.
2006.Blimey!! that is ten years ago.

At some point in it's restoration, the Griffo even had an out building collapse on it !!

A whole car from a show this evening.

Oh crikey, I'm useless at recognising vintage stuff. Is it a Dellow?

Is it Brum?

Spacenut wrote:Oh crikey, I'm useless at recognising vintage stuff. Is it a Dellow?

It's not fair on everyone else when Lauren has 1st go. Top of the class I'd never heard of one. This evening show was put up on FB two days ago by the local Polo Club and nearly 150 cars turned up - was awesome.

Sorry

I didn't expect to nail it first try...

Note to self - must try even harder.

Hi guys,

Alfa Romeo Logo

This Roman pot design caught my eye. It's a flat bottomed aryballos of quatrefoil (quadrifoglio) design.

Anyone guess the date?
Brgds
Simon

1286?

It looked to me like it had a snake up the middle with a little red man top left?

Here is the story of the Alfa logo I lifted from the Internet:

Alfa Romeo, the car manufacturer and pride of Italy, traced its beginnings to France. In 1910, Milan aristocrat Cavaliere Ugo Stella collaborated with the French car company Darracq to market the line in Italy. When the partnership failed, Stella moved the company and renamed it Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili (Lombard Automobile Factory, Public Company) or A.L.F.A.

Alfa Romeo's distinctive logo was created in 1910 by a draftsman named Romano Cattaneo. One day, while waiting for a tram at the Piazza Castello station in Milan, he was inspired by the red cross in the Milan Flag and the Coat of Arms of the noble House of Visconti, which featured a biscione (grass snake) with a man in its jaws, symbolizing "Visconti’s enemies that the snake [was] always ready to destroy." (Source) Two Savoia dynasty knots separated the words ALFA and MILANO.

The Romeo part came in 1916 when Neapolitan businessman Nicola Romeo bought the company and converted its factories to produce munitions and machineries for World War I. After the war, the company went back to producing cars and took on its owner's last name to become Alfa Romeo.

This is the Visconti's logo but did he nick it from the Romans? The pot is 595 - 570BC.

I was going to try 1186
Nice history lesson Simon.

The cross and serpent of Milan dates way before the 1900's.

It's not an Alfa logo, it's a Milan dynasty emblem.

Right you lot, you seem to need bringing back on track here a bit, found these when clearing out.... any ideas the engine bit is possibly Jeep? any ideas?

Chris

Wow, Tragonic instruments, there's a blast from the past! Aftermarket, obviously, so the panel is probably a universal fit rather than being for a specific vehicle.

The manifold looks like it is drilled for twin sidedraft carbs, so I would be very surprised if it came off a Jeep - unless it is also an aftermarket part (and for a 4 cylinder engine). Webers and Dellortos aren't the first choice for tuning American iron...

I'm nowhere near, am I

Hi, I don't know!!! I don't the answer myself!!

Chris

Fair enough. Nobody said you had to know the answer before posing a puzzle

Hmm,

The manifold certainly appears to be in the Weber dcoe pattern, but as for the application, it resembles loads!

Its quite Ford shaped but a tad short, I'd say the same for Fiats too.

Having a quick Google about, one of the closest shapes i could find was for Toyota 4ag and an A110 Alpine Berlinetta!


Getting anywhere near possible Chris?

dunno about either car although the top one as a hint of fiat dino about it?

tyre is a Michelin X by the looks of it though, albeit a newly moulded one by the 2015 date, probably one of Dougal's as i'm sure he now owns the rights to produce them from michelin

Is the racer an aero engine ?
Hard to gauge the size but it looks like it could run two plugs per cylinder, and as we can already see six, I will guess at a packard

First one is an Alfa 2000/2600 Sprint. I don't think anyone could be definite without seeing the bonnet. 2600 has intake - 2000 doesn't.

2nd car - not a clue. Aero-engined special though.

Cheers, Ted

Found this picture, I think it would tie up with the period of chassis.
1916 - Packard - Twin -Six - V12.

Spot on Keith. Answer to the other pic about 10ish.

Oh dear !! I need to get a life !!

I just love aero-engined cars. Or is that a production car engine?

I did think Packard when I saw the shape of the radiator grille - very distinctive!

Keith, I think the V12 was a production engine. Aero engines from that era are truly enormous.

I do recognise the event, it's the Merrist Wood show outside Guildford isn't it?

Your life is just fine for a petrolhead. The other award goes to Ted, thought lots of you would go for it.