What Am I? Lost In Translation
It’s Monday morning, time for DT’s mystery guessing game known as What Am I? Today, we’ve got a picture of an engine — you get to guess the car.
What am I? Comments below.
Update: Another photo of the car here. Thanks to Philipp and Nora for the pictures from Havana!
Hindustan Ambassador?
Italian American….
Mercedes
The valve cover makes it look like a Mercedes 2.2 OM601 diesel – perhaps this is the commercial version retrofitted to something older, like a Ponton car?
Not sure, but I think the key clue is the hood prop.
Elton John?
Looks '50s round, but the plastic tanks looks '80s or newer; the big cylindrical air filter says 'third world'.
LHD which means not UK, Japan, HK, India, or various other places (unless someone flipped the image)
I want to guess that it's actually an American car('57 Chevy?) in Cuba with one of those engine swaps from some Russian or Eastern European diesel.
I like the way you are thinking.
After looking around a little more, I think the engine is from South Korea, from a ssangyong/Mercedes? The vehicle, still in Cuba, I dunno.
This image of a 2005 Musso 2.9L turbodiesel looks similar?
img.tradingpost.com.au/2G9D6FHC/BGHX5Z/RD2Q-Boxed640x480.jpg
It would have to be an extensive swap, involving not just the engine but a late-model power brake setup with a dual-circuit plastic-reservoir master cylinder. But I suppose it's possible.
You guys are good. Very good. You've got the engine and location, just not vehicle.
Seems also that the windshield wipers cross in the middle (i.e. mounts are at the corners of window and go opposite directions). This could be a good future question for BAT, which is all cars that use this design (I suppose their is an official term for this system)
Regardless of what might be good on that other website, this is DT 😉
Correct good sir. I will claim that as a Monday foul that will not be repeated.
I dunno. The world's fastest Volga pickup?
strange hood shape – 58 Coronet?
Ditto- '53 Bel Air?
BP — you got it! A '53 Chevy Sedan, update the post with a pic of the car now.
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When we took a taxi ride (pictured above) in a 1955 Dodge painted pink — not an original color — I detected that the engine didn't rumble like a 1950s V-8 should. I asked the driver if the car still had its original engine. "Oh no," he said proudly. "It has a Mercedes diesel."
cbsnews.com/news/wayback-machines-the-classic-cars-of-cuba/
Some where in Havana….lol Amazing a lot of there cars seem to have chessy aftermarket wheels….