[Jai3033]

Originally Posted by Stanher

Really sad to see the Pennant like that! BTW, (sorry but can't help being tempted!) any chance of getting some parts off it, if it's abandoned?

What's the story on these cars? 'looks like a roadside workshop/garage.

Yes Shyam its a workshop and I checked with the guy working there who says its their customers cars and are being done up which I doubt.

[harit]

Originally Posted by wasif

What model is this Merc ? Yours ?

Probably 200/230. Nay

Originally Posted by deutscheafrikar

Thanks for the photo. Owner says it is a 35 - 38 model. He also swears he hasn't sold the car and that the car went to amd is in Goa. Now is very surprised that someoen has seen it in Delhi. Says if I bring the sanps to prove it he will tell me the story. Should be some story. Who are the personalities in the photo?
Is it this type of merc Mercedes Benz 230 Cabrio B 1938

So let me come to Bandra and lets meet him. He can check the registration number.
Personality was, I believe, a certain Madhu Trehan, journalist? That is what was mentioned at that time, I do not know the Delhi social circuit. Any Dilliwalla can comment? As you can see, this picture was taken at a Statesman Rally in Delhi in the 1990's.
BTW, there is a similar car in Goa, but that did NOT come from Bandra.

[harit]

Originally Posted by amit V8

any idea of this?? lying here for the last 20 years or more.
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It could have looked similar to this.
Or the MRF registered car posted by Karl in the nostalgic thread many years ago.
Cheers harit

[arun1100]

Originally Posted by sgchaudhuri

Here's a fiat that I stumbled upon! I couldn't see much of the car interior as the entire car was stuffed with cushions!

Today Manish and me had a look at this Select along with Souvik. Car seemed pretty ok, but not sure if its for sale.

Manish was lucky to get the missing trims needed for his Select for free, well almost (removed the trims with permission of the car's caretaker) ..

Souvik: Thanks a lot for showing the cars to us in spite of having your sem exams at noon.

[Stanher]

A sad "lost case" of a reasonably complete Super-select that's ended up in queue to be scrapped the coming tuesday!! :(

This car has a lot of original parts intact, a real shame!

The grab-handles (roof-sides, interior), horn-button, rims and a few other parts have already been salvaged by a fellow tbhpian.












Question to fiat gurus: are those rear interior lights original? They are there on either side inside this car, never seen them on any fiat 1100s before!

[arun1100]

Every Fiat has its own destiny

[sgchaudhuri]

Originally Posted by arun1100

Today Manish and me had a look at this Select along with Souvik. Car seemed pretty ok, but not sure if its for sale.

Manish was lucky to get the missing trims needed for his Select for free, well almost (removed the trims with permission of the car's caretaker) ..

Souvik: Thanks a lot for showing the cars to us in spite of having your sem exams at noon.

It was my pleasure guys! Please call me whenever you guys need anything! and
regarding the WBB,I agree with arun. It's fate.

Stanher, could you get me the grille logo and if possible, also the auto distributors plate?

[Stanher]

Originally Posted by sgchaudhuri

Stanher, could you get me the grille logo and if possible, also the auto distributors plate?

I will surely ask on your behalf.

Is that you in the yellow Tee (left) in the pic. with the green select?

[arun1100]

Originally Posted by Stanher

Is that you in the yellow Tee (left) in the pic. with the green select?

Yes Shyam, thats Souvik.

Hey can you get the Select's dicky lock for me? If possible...

[anjan_c2007]

Originally Posted by Stanher

Question to fiat gurus: are those rear interior lights original? They are there on either side inside this car, never seen them on any fiat 1100s before!

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Stanher though I am no Fiat guru thats not the original rear interior light. These used to be at the same angle as in this car and the shape would be rectangular (not exactly) with convex longer sides and straight smaller sides.

[sgchaudhuri]

Yes, Stanher! That me (with the really weird expression!)

[junkmn]

Originally Posted by amit V8

any idea of this?? lying here for the last 20 years or more.

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1964 plymouth valiant tudor post

[Stanher]

Originally Posted by anjan_c2007

Stanher though I am no Fiat guru thats not the original rear interior light. These used to be at the same angle as in this car and the shape would be rectangular (not exactly) with convex longer sides and straight smaller sides.

I thought so! Yes, to put it more conveniently in present-day terminology, the exact shape as the "start" and "stop" boxes in a computer flow-chart!

[Ram]

Going by the pitifully meagre appearances of this little model in street photos of Europe back then, one would conclude that, amongst the VW Beetles and Renaults, Alfa Romeos and Ponton Mercedes of the time, the plain little 1,089 cc four-cylinder Fiat came and went silently unloved in the three years before and after 1960.

However in India, one family built and sold them for four long decades, build quality and sheet metal progressively deteriorating as the years panned by.

What remain today in volumes of any significance, are the dented black and yellow CNG-breathing relics of Bombay's past.

Would the original Italian designer have imagined in his wildest dreams, the resurrection of interest, that would awaken in India half a century later, as aficionados ferret out these tired heaps, all over the country, lovingly doting on each little bauble -- a door handle, an ashtray and a horn button here, a parking light and a carburetor there – scrupulously rescuing them from the scrap-ironmonger -- for some restoration project in the foggy future ?

[arun1100]

Well said Ram.

These two cars are waiting for restoration in a compound near M.G road.