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Tough to Crack Car Puzzle #195

Tough to Crack Car Puzzle #195

Tough to Crack Car Puzzle #195

  • Tough to Crack Car Puzzle #195
  • Tough to Crack Car Puzzle #195
Built in a time of innovation, this car was the production version of a certain prototype, that was developed by big names in the scene. Very few of these cars were built and sold. Up to you to give us more information.
What we would like to know from you is what car we are talking about, on what prototype it is based, who built it (and why it has the current name and not another one), where the prototype went after its retirement and everything else you know.
 
The rules:
Please send in your answer in a comment, in maximum 100 words. Do this before Monday evening and do not forget to give us your sources so we can check them. See next week if you are the winner of the full 5 points in the six months competition, sponsored by Hans Compter Rare Cars.
 
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sabato ottobre 27th, 2018

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Fried Stol
28 Ottobre 2018, 23:44
Based on a Plymouth Valiant chassis, this car, named “Asimmetrica” for its asymmetrical design, was one of the last projects between Chrysler and Ghia during Virgil Exner‘s design reign. Some say this was a Ghia thing all around. Built as kind of a successor to the Plymouth XNR Concept, to be a “more realistic” car that could be sold to the general public. The plan was to build 25 of these cars, but only two were ever made. Power comes from a NASCAR-spec 2.8-liter Hyper-Pak slant-six making 101 horsepower. One was purchased off the Geneva stand by novelist Georges Simenon.

Source: different sites on the internet Coachbuilt.com
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Robbie Marenzi
28 Ottobre 2018, 22:33
1961 Plymouth Asimmetrica, designed by Virgil Exner Sr. and built by Ghia, it evolved from the Plymouth XNR. A run of 20 was planned but only 2 are believed to have been made. The mpuzzle picture was taken while the car was part of the Blackhawk Collection
https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/mo18/auction/lots/r0060-1961-plymouth-asimmetrica-roadster-by-ghia
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Verner Johnsen
28 Ottobre 2018, 19:03
1961 Plymouth Asimmetrica after prototype 1960 Plymouth XNR designed by Vergil Exner (XNR = Exner) and built by Ghia.
The Assimmetrica got its name because nothing was symmetrical. Rumors says that this car was was solely a Ghia project.
Planned production = 25 units. Production: probably only one. Both versions were based on Plymouth Valiant chassis and Nascar Valiant spec. engine.
The XNR was once owned by the Shah of Iran, then someone in Saudi Arabia and Lebanon. The XNR was restored by RM and sold on auction in 2012 for $935000.
The Asimmetrica was sold on auction 2 month ago. $305000

Links:
https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/MO18/Monterey/lots/r0060-1961-plymouth-asimmetrica-roadster-by-ghia/691774
http://www.classiccarweekly.net/2018/07/30/1961-plymouth-asimmetrica-roadster-by-ghia/
http://www.motorbase.com/vehicle/profile/plymouth-asimmetrica/
https://www.carscoops.com/2018/06/1961-plymouth-asimmetrica-concept-oddball-dream-come-true/
http://www.carstyling.ru/en/car/1961_plymouth_asimmetrica/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ioISRvJfyM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv8ffn8NpsY
https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/mo12/auction/lots/r180-1960-plymouth-xnr
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Ace Zenek
28 Ottobre 2018, 16:30
Plymouth Asimmetrica Roadster (2+2) by Ghia, 1961, one-off with possible second having longer wheelbase. Purchased by Georges Simenon for wife Denyse, then by Blackhawk Collection in late 1980s, shown Pebble Beach Concours 1990, exhibited Behring Auto Museum 1995, sold privately 2000, and then publicly at Monterey 2018 for $335,000. Variation of Plymouth XNR, named for Virgil Exner, but christened differently since Exner had left Chrysler. Only Ghia name appears on body. Hubcaps incorrect as originals were lost and new ones are different than originals. Chrysler Valiant St. Regis of 1962 had similar frontal design. Cousin of Raymond Loewy’s Flaminia Loraymo?

Sources:
Plymouth Valiant St. Regis
http://www.carstyling.ru/de/car/1962_plymouth_valiant_st_regis/images/24767/
RM Sothebys, 1961 Plymouth Asimmetrica Roadster by Ghia
https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/mo18/auction/lots/r0060-1961-plymouth-asimmetrica-roadster-by-ghia
Sale reported in Old Cars Weekly, Oct. 4, 2018, p33-34
Ghia exhibit, Behring Auto Museum, Works of art that get you revved up: Becker, Tom. The Fresno Bee; Fresno, Calif. [Fresno, Calif]03 Dec 1995: G.12.
Built in Ghia factory in Turin, Italy, Source: February 7, 1993, Chicago Sun-Times, Illinois, Author: Nina Padgett, Page: 5, Section: Chicago Auto Show
The American Sports Car, Classic Car Quarterly (magazine), Summer 1979, page 84
The Plymouth and DeSoto Story, Don Butler, pages 244, 253, 1978(? – year not shown on title page)
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Neil Beadle
28 Ottobre 2018, 12:04
This outrageous sports car is a Plymouth Asimmetrica built in 1961 in Italy by Ghia on a Plymouth Valiant chassis. Powered by a 2.8 litre inline 6 cylinder engine with NASCAR proved modifications producing 200 bhp. The name is very apt as the styling is asymmetric. It is thought that only two were built, the first owner of the car shown at the Turin and Geneva motor shows was Maigret author Georges Simenon, later it was part of the Blackhawk collection. The car was a development of the Plymouth XNR concept designed by (and named after) Virgil Exener (XNR).

My sources are:
https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/mo18/auction/lots/r0060-1961-plymouth-asimmetrica-roadster-by-ghia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_XNR
https://autoweek.com/article/car-life/escape-roads-1960-plymouth-xnr-virgil-exners-dream-car
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Timo Laitinen
28 Ottobre 2018, 11:34
Plymouth Assimmetrica which was shown on the Ghia stand on both Turin and Genova motor shows in 1961. Its origin was the futuristic (and less practical) show car Plymouth XNR designed by Virgil Exner and built by Ghia. The Assimmetrica is a real road car with four seats and less fancy styling (e.g. the rear fin is much smaller). The chassis with engine and powertrain comes from Plymouth Valiant but the engine is a hi-po NASCAR version with Hyper-Pack specification.
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fritz hegemann
27 Ottobre 2018, 17:27
Dear postwarclssic-team,
here my solution:

Plymouth Asimmetrica Roadster, presented at Turin Motorshow in 1961 styled by Virgil Exner. One (two?) car built by Ghia. The Assimetrica is the styling-successor of the Xtravagant EXner Plymouth XNR.
Based upon a Valiant, 4-seater with 2.8l “slant-six”-engine and the Hyper-Pack (radical cam, Carter AFB 3083S four-barrel carburetor on long-ram intake manifold, steel tubing exhaust headers, higher compression pistons and a special exhaust, advertised at 148 brake-hp, compression ratio: 10.5:1): The car was bought at the Geneva Motor Show by Georges Simenon for his wife Denyse.
Sold for 335T US$ by Sothebys in Monterey 2018.

Best regards from the Nahe-valley!
Fritz

Sources:
https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/mo18/auction/lots/r0060-1961-plymouth-asimmetrica-roadster-by-ghia
https://www.valiant.org/sixup.html
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Gerd Klioba
27 Ottobre 2018, 15:18
This is the 1961 Plymouth Asimmetrica, production version of the 1959 Plymouth XNR, both designed by Virgil Exner and built by Ghia. While the XNR was first bought by a Genevan butcher and later on owned by the Shah of Persia, the Asimmetrica, bodied on a Valiant chassis, was bought by the Belgian author Georges Simenon for his wife Denyse and owned later on by Rob de la Rive Box. A production of 25 cars was planned, but at most two were built. The car's name stemmed from the bumps and bulges on the driver's side only.

Sources:
David Burgess-Wise, Ghia
Standard Catalog of American Cars 1946-1975
http://radical-mag.com/2018/08/02/plymouth-asimmetrica-roadster/
https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/mo18/auction/lots/r0060-1961-plymouth-asimmetrica-roadster-by-ghia
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