There’s something about not being able to identify a car that can drive one absolutely mad. I think for hardcore car geeks, the hardware in our brains normally wired to identify human faces gets deployed for car identification, which I think is why many of us are able to identify cars so rapidly and with such fleeting glances. That also means when there’s a car we can’t quite identify, it really gets in your head and pokes at your brain, like a little demon of recognition that keeps almost telling you the secret, but not quite.
I was just shown a picture of a car via Twitter that is currently doing this to me. It’s on the tip of my brain! It’s so close it hurts!
The picture is an interesting one, as you can see up above there; it was taken in October of 1961, in Paris, and shows the Queen of Iran (Shahbanou) Farah Pahlavi entering (maybe exiting?) a lovely blue car. I say lovely based on what I can see of the car, which is mostly just the greenhouse, which does have some striking chrome brightwork over all the pillars.
The car is a coupé, with a door with chrome-framed windows (and a vent window with a distinctive 45° angle cropped-off leading lower corner, a very angular rear quarter window, some interesting detailing down by the base of the windshield.
Here, look at the photo again for yourself:
& there's a car in it I can't identify. can't sleep since.
I gave myself 24 more hours to find it, then I must harakiry.thats it.
Help me identify it and stay alive. I beg you. pic.twitter.com/0xwCr0NRYn— Amou_Joghd_e_Shakhdaar (@AlRo483145) September 10, 2024
Look how desperate that poor man is to know what this car is! According to him, this is life or death!
Now, I’ll be honest with you. I know what this car is. Thanks to help from our very own Bishop, the identity of this machine is revealed, but I don’t want to spoil it for you. That’s why if you want to know what it is, you’ll need to click here. Oh, and if you want to see this lovely French GT car’s fantastic taillights, click here.
So, see if you can figure out what this car is with that limited snippet! It’ll be fun! Live a little!
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