Anyone managed to identify any of the cars in the Guinnes 'domino
topple' advert?

Number 3 has a distinctly BMC Farina look -- the bonnet shape suggests
Riley/Wolseley? Difficult to get a good look and there's lots of motion
blur.

Phil

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Phil

On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:41:20 +0000, Phil
wrote:

Anyone managed to identify any of the cars in the Guinnes 'domino
topple' advert?

Number 3 has a distinctly BMC Farina look -- the bonnet shape suggests
Riley/Wolseley? Difficult to get a good look and there's lots of motion
blur.

You're right about the Wolseley/Riley, but can't really tell the others.

In order of falling,

No1 is probably a Fiat 125

No2 ?? Looks to have a peculiar ridged roofline

No3 ?? But bigger than the Farina

No4 is the Wolseley

No5 is a pickup - no idea.

No6 looks like a 60's Fiat, though I can't put a finger on the model -
maybe a 600 or Multipla

I think from the style of the ad and the cars, it's almost certainly
filmed in Italy and the cars were probably Italian (the BMC Farinas were
not uncommon in 60s Italy and two - both rotten! - can be seen falling
off the transporter in the Italian Job).



If you want to watch it and pause it (with no motion blur!) online, it's
at http://www.visit4info.com/preview-fl...e=3&adid=52676
(before) and
http://www.visit4info.com/preview-fl...e=3&adid=54983
(during tipping))

(visit4info has pretty well every advert you can think of).
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In message , Chris Bolus
writes
On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:41:20 +0000, Phil
k wrote:

Anyone managed to identify any of the cars in the Guinnes 'domino
topple' advert?

Number 3 has a distinctly BMC Farina look -- the bonnet shape suggests
Riley/Wolseley? Difficult to get a good look and there's lots of motion
blur.

You're right about the Wolseley/Riley, but can't really tell the others.

In order of falling,

No1 is probably a Fiat 125

No2 ?? Looks to have a peculiar ridged roofline

No3 ?? But bigger than the Farina

No4 is the Wolseley

No5 is a pickup - no idea.

No6 looks like a 60's Fiat, though I can't put a finger on the model -
maybe a 600 or Multipla

I think from the style of the ad and the cars, it's almost certainly
filmed in Italy and the cars were probably Italian (the BMC Farinas were
not uncommon in 60s Italy and two - both rotten! - can be seen falling
off the transporter in the Italian Job).



If you want to watch it and pause it (with no motion blur!) online, it's
at http://www.visit4info.com/preview-fl...e=3&adid=52676
(before) and
http://www.visit4info.com/preview-fl...e=3&adid=54983
(during tipping))

(visit4info has pretty well every advert you can think of).

You're right -- number 4, not number 3.

Did some more Googling after I posted -- the ad was filmed in South
America, and a little searching turned up this

http://oldcarandtruckpictures.com/Ar...ntinajamc.html

which confirms what someone told me years ago, that the 4/72 was
manufactured there in both saloon and pickup forms. Also that the Farina
Magnette was very popular, which I didn't know. But the bonnet looks
more 4/72 to me.

There's a little more visible (but not much) he

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eiB6...eature=related

but it's possible to confirm that number 1 has 4-stud wheels (how sad am
I?).




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Phil