Help identifying a strange little car
Discussion
alvis said:
The secret is in the wheels, Panhard had the brake drum exposed into the airstream, study the picture and a DB Panhard, thats the answer
I have long considered this to be the case. Despite suggestions to the contrary, the body looks the work of an amateur. There's no way an Italian or French coachbuilder would lend their name to the ugly little thing, Probably built in a back-street repair shop on Panhard mechanicals with a body fashioned from war-surplus aluminium by an old guy with a tree stump and fading eyesight.
Saw this on the other unknown classic car thread and it reminded me of his thread:
skwdenyer said:
Just to reinforce the point made by many about the difficulty of tracking-down one-offs (or near-one-offs), here's another found in a 1955 edition of Motor Sport:
Claimed to be the work of the proprietor of the BP garage in Albi, France, and based off of the mechanicals of a Citroen Light 15.
It was claimed in the article that a few "production" models might follow; who knows if they did?
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=140&t=1555306&i=2400Claimed to be the work of the proprietor of the BP garage in Albi, France, and based off of the mechanicals of a Citroen Light 15.
It was claimed in the article that a few "production" models might follow; who knows if they did?
Scrump said:
Saw this on the other unknown classic car thread and it reminded me of his thread:
I mean it's clearly not the unknown car...but equally it's a very valid point that it could well have been a one-off hence why no one (still) after many years has a clue what it is/was. skwdenyer said:
Just to reinforce the point made by many about the difficulty of tracking-down one-offs (or near-one-offs), here's another found in a 1955 edition of Motor Sport:
Claimed to be the work of the proprietor of the BP garage in Albi, France, and based off of the mechanicals of a Citroen Light 15.
It was claimed in the article that a few "production" models might follow; who knows if they did?
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=140&t=1555306&i=2400Claimed to be the work of the proprietor of the BP garage in Albi, France, and based off of the mechanicals of a Citroen Light 15.
It was claimed in the article that a few "production" models might follow; who knows if they did?
Fastdruid said:
Scrump said:
Saw this on the other unknown classic car thread and it reminded me of his thread:
I mean it's clearly not the unknown car...but equally it's a very valid point that it could well have been a one-off hence why no one (still) after many years has a clue what it is/was. skwdenyer said:
Just to reinforce the point made by many about the difficulty of tracking-down one-offs (or near-one-offs), here's another found in a 1955 edition of Motor Sport:
Claimed to be the work of the proprietor of the BP garage in Albi, France, and based off of the mechanicals of a Citroen Light 15.
It was claimed in the article that a few "production" models might follow; who knows if they did?
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=140&t=1555306&i=2400Claimed to be the work of the proprietor of the BP garage in Albi, France, and based off of the mechanicals of a Citroen Light 15.
It was claimed in the article that a few "production" models might follow; who knows if they did?
(you may need to register to read the OCRd copy, but clicking on the images to read the original magazine pages works for me)
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