A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk III)

[bigothunter]

No takers in almost 4 hours so here's another view. It's a 1928 Delage DR70 Saloon with Weymann body.

Is this the unidentified car albeit with a different coachbuilder?

[williamp]

bigothunter said:

No takers in almost 4 hours so here's another view. It's a 1928 Delage DR70 Saloon with Weymann body.

Is this the unidentified car albeit with a different coachbuilder?

Nah. It doesnt have that "kildrunny Inn" sign on the roof..

[Turbobanana]

bigothunter said:

No takers in almost 4 hours so here's another view. It's a 1928 Delage DR70 Saloon with Weymann body.

Is this the unidentified car albeit with a different coachbuilder?

Not unless they changed the radiator grille, which would have been highly unlikely.

[bigothunter]

Turbobanana said:

Not unless they changed the radiator grille, which would have been highly unlikely.

Radiator grille of another Delage DR. Is that any closer?



Mystery car

[Turbobanana]

bigothunter said:

Turbobanana said:

Not unless they changed the radiator grille, which would have been highly unlikely.

Radiator grille of another Delage DR. Is that any closer?



Mystery car

Yes, it's closer (and the right colour), but I still don't think it's right. Look at the way the bright surround on the mystery car curves on its lower edge - in the colour shot it is straight. Radiator grilles were one of the few ways cars could be identified back then, so manufacturers evolved a design and stuck with it.

All that being said, you've done better than I have in trying to identify this car...

[EW109]

There is a hint of Hispano-Suiza about it, but I don't think the radiator shape is quite right.

[nicanary]

Don't forget that a lot of middle to top range cars were available in chassis form for fitting with a body of choice, so similarity in bodywork means nothing much.

I think there's a chance that the Scottish buyers of the time were a parochial lot. Why buy French when there were plenty of Scottish marques?

Arrol Johnston for me.

[Dan Singh]

I haven't got anywhere with identification either, but the solid wheels on the mystery car make me think it's not an exotic - which a Delage etc. would have been.

[Milkyway]

Dan Singh said:

I haven't got anywhere with identification either, but the solid wheels on the mystery car make me think it's not an exotic - which a Delage etc. would have been.

The hint of the two words on the grill still puzzles me.

[nicanary]

Milkyway said:

Dan Singh said:

I haven't got anywhere with identification either, but the solid wheels on the mystery car make me think it's not an exotic - which a Delage etc. would have been.

The hint of the two words on the grill still puzzles me.

I have wondered if they were added by the proud owner. Other 2-word marques were Angus-Sanderson and Arrol-Aster (it's definitely not one of those).
Maybe it's not the make of car at all but a witty quip from the owner rather like Darren and Sharon.

[bigothunter]

Milkyway said:

The hint of the two words on the grill still puzzles me.

Edited by bigothunter on Saturday 25th March 11:41

[hidetheelephants]

bigothunter said:

Milkyway said:

Help wanted on ‘What car is this’ thread.
( Taken in Aberdeenshire if that helps).

Citroën B14

http://www.autovehicle.info/citroen-b14/detay/citr...

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_B14

Interesting; the enclosed/cowled in dumb irons are similar but not the same and the radiator cowl doesn't look quite right.

[bigothunter]

hidetheelephants said:

Interesting; the enclosed/cowled in dumb irons are similar but not the same and the radiator cowl doesn't look quite right.

Austin 16/6 Saloon maybe?

[hidetheelephants]

bigothunter said:

hidetheelephants said:

Interesting; the enclosed/cowled in dumb irons are similar but not the same and the radiator cowl doesn't look quite right.

Austin 16/6 Saloon maybe?

The disc wheels seem more of a continental thing, certainly 4 studs are; most UK vehicles of that size had 5 or 6 stud hubs at the time.

[W124Bob]

From a Flickr site on Chicago's urban railroads, this is dated April 1968

[bigothunter]

Could even get away with locking three kids in the boot and allowing them to wave out of an open window

How times have changed...

[Escort3500]

bigothunter said:

hidetheelephants said:

Interesting; the enclosed/cowled in dumb irons are similar but not the same and the radiator cowl doesn't look quite right.

Austin 16/6 Saloon maybe?

The 16/6 had suicide rear doors though

I do enjoy a mystery car thread

[bigothunter]

Escort3500 said:

The 16/6 had suicide rear doors though

I do enjoy a mystery car thread

Doors are a feature of the bodymaker not Austin.

But as hidetheelephants mentioned, falls down on stud pattern. Austin 16/6 had 6 studs. Mystery car in photo only has 4...

[Pickstock]

I am sure it is French - the wheels and bodystyle are a give away. My feeling is its one of the last De Dion Boutons (they went out of businss in 1932) and that is the script on the radiator.

[bigothunter]

Pickstock said:

I am sure it is French - the wheels and bodystyle are a give away. My feeling is its one of the last De Dion Boutons (they went out of businss in 1932) and that is the script on the radiator.

Comme ceci avec script? De Dion Bouton type IT Berline-1921



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Edited by bigothunter on Tuesday 28th March 14:16