Name this car....

[stuny]

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16 minutes ago, wlaidlaw said:

I must visit that again. I last went to the museum when it was still up in the palace in a basement garage, about 40 years ago. The cars were all a bit dusty and tired looking then but I think Albert's staff will have spruced them up a lot for the new museum plus with a load of additions. 

Wilson

They currently look well cared for and the space is quite nice.  I suspect that the cars are very slowly deteriorating from not being exercised.

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11 minutes ago, stuny said:

They currently look well cared for and the space is quite nice.  I suspect that the cars are very slowly deteriorating from not being exercised.

Sounds like La Musée de l'Automobile in Mulhouse. When I go to Mulhouse, I stay in a B&B run by the daughter of the man who used to be the chief engineer to the Schlumpf Brothers, whose cars formed the core of the Museum's collection. She said much of what was printed in the French papers about the Schlumpfs was lies and that everybody in Mulhouse knew about the Bugattis. If you were getting married locally, the Schlumpfs would happily lend one or more Bugattis for the occasion, so much of the collection was regularly driven. There are almost as many Bugattis mouldering away in damp warehouses in Mulhouse, as are on display at the museum. They are refusing to sell these to fund the badly needed restoration of the display ones, which is madness. I am quite friendly with one of the principle dealers of classic Bugattis and he is tearing his hair out over their stupidity. He believes having been round the warehouses, that in 10 years, a substantial percentage of these stored cars will have deteriorated beyond restoration. Really sad. 

Wilson

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23 minutes ago, wlaidlaw said:

Sounds like La Musée de l'Automobile in Mulhouse. When I go to Mulhouse, I stay in a B&B run by the daughter of the man who used to be the chief engineer to the Schlumpf Brothers, whose cars formed the core of the Museum's collection. She said much of what was printed in the French papers about the Schlumpfs was lies and that everybody in Mulhouse knew about the Bugattis. If you were getting married locally, the Schlumpfs would happily lend one or more Bugattis for the occasion, so much of the collection was regularly driven. There are almost as many Bugattis mouldering away in damp warehouses in Mulhouse, as are on display at the museum. They are refusing to sell these to fund the badly needed restoration of the display ones, which is madness. I am quite friendly with one of the principle dealers of classic Bugattis and he is tearing his hair out over their stupidity. He believes having been round the warehouses, that in 10 years, a substantial percentage of these stored cars will have deteriorated beyond restoration. Really sad. 

Wilson

One of the nice things about the Simeone collection in the outskirts of Philadelphia is that they drive and maintain them all, and Dr. Simeone has special demo days when he drives cars of a specific theme for visitors to observe.

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5 hours ago, wlaidlaw said:

Sounds like La Musée de l'Automobile in Mulhouse. When I go to Mulhouse, I stay in a B&B run by the daughter of the man who used to be the chief engineer to the Schlumpf Brothers, whose cars formed the core of the Museum's collection. She said much of what was printed in the French papers about the Schlumpfs was lies and that everybody in Mulhouse knew about the Bugattis. If you were getting married locally, the Schlumpfs would happily lend one or more Bugattis for the occasion, so much of the collection was regularly driven. There are almost as many Bugattis mouldering away in damp warehouses in Mulhouse, as are on display at the museum. They are refusing to sell these to fund the badly needed restoration of the display ones, which is madness. I am quite friendly with one of the principle dealers of classic Bugattis and he is tearing his hair out over their stupidity. He believes having been round the warehouses, that in 10 years, a substantial percentage of these stored cars will have deteriorated beyond restoration. Really sad. 

Wilson

Difficult to understand...as you say...sad

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[stuny]

Small, European, budget priced.

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18 minutes ago, stuny said:

Small, European, budget priced.

Small, yes, Stuart, but not European

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6 hours ago, wlaidlaw said:

Sounds like La Musée de l'Automobile in Mulhouse

Denis Jenkinson's book on the Schlumpf collection is a good read.

Some years ago we were lucky in that a visit  coincided with an event that brought all the Royales together. In the evening in the local Italian we got chatting with the guy who had come over with the Royale cared for by the 'Dominoes Pizza' owner, and he told us they exercised it by driving it around inside the warehouse. 

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6 minutes ago, Lelmer said:

but not European

Japanese?

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6 minutes ago, pedaes said:

Japanese?

Correct 🙂

[stuny]

42 minutes ago, Lelmer said:

Small, yes, Stuart, but not European

Asian, perhaps Japanese?

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Somehow a mental image of W.A. Mozart having his hair cut by a Spanish barber springs to mind......

Philip.

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On 6/20/2023 at 6:08 PM, wlaidlaw said:

Guys I am still spending half of each day at the hospital so have no new photos. Can anyone else please step in. 

Wilson

Sorry to read that, Wilson, and as others have said here's hoping for a full recovery in double-quick time.

Apologies for the late reply but we're in La Vendee so check-ins are few and far between...

Philip.

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1 minute ago, pippy said:

we're in La Vendee

Enjoy!

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7 minutes ago, pippy said:

Sorry to read that, Wilson, and as others have said here's hoping for a full recovery in double-quick time.

Apologies for the late reply but we're in La Vendee so check-ins are few and far between...

Philip.

Philip, 

Have you ever read any of Alexandre Dumas' novels about the Vendée rebellion, La Gemenele. Very moving and readable book. He knew the circumstances well as his father, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, was a General of the French army putting down the rebellion. He also wrote 2 other novels based in La Vendée, The Last Vendée and Brigand. I have been trying to read the last in French but his rather old fashioned French, together with the very wide vocabulary he uses, is a challenge. 

Wilson

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52 minutes ago, stuny said:

Asian, perhaps Japanese?

Yes Stuart, Japanese.

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32 minutes ago, wlaidlaw said:

Philip, 

Have you ever read any of Alexandre Dumas' novels about the Vendée rebellion, La Gemenele. Very moving and readable book. He knew the circumstances well as his father, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, was a General of the French army putting down the rebellion. He also wrote 2 other novels based in La Vendée, The Last Vendée and Brigand. I have been trying to read the last in French but his rather old fashioned French, together with the very wide vocabulary he uses, is a challenge. 

Wilson

Hello again, Wilson, and thanks for the recommendation!

I have not read any of the works you mention but having just had a quick 'google' I can see how very easily they will be able to shed some light / another angle on various activities about which I know some small part mainly because my wife hails from La Rochelle and the disparity in, shall we say, Religious & Royalist preferences between 'Les Vendéennes' and 'Les Rochelais' is quite notable!

As it happens my own background was touched-on by the Hugenots so all of this stuff is fascinating.

Anyhow (apologies folks); shall I cut to the chase and say the quiz car might be a 1991 Nissan Figaro?

Philip.

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54 minutes ago, pippy said:

Somehow a mental image of W.A. Mozart having his hair cut by a Spanish barber springs to mind......

Philip.

You are very imaginative, Philip 😂

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18 minutes ago, pippy said:

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Anyhow (apologies folks); shall I cut to the chase and say the quiz car might be a 1991 Nissan Figaro?

Philip.

You are absolutely correct 😊, your turn.

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Thank you, Lelmer.

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