pippy Posted July 27, 2024 Share #22301 Posted July 27, 2024 Advertisement (gone after registration) 2 hours ago, stuny said: I lusted after the regular road machine in about 1963. Maxwell Smart drove one in the opening credits of one season. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=get+smart+opening+credits#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:18ca0711,vid:AJ6gdRfBW6c,st:0 😺 I used to watch the TV series as a VERY young boy; 6-y-o or perhaps a bit older by the time it had arrived in the UK Scotland! Philip. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted July 27, 2024 Posted July 27, 2024 Hi pippy, Take a look here Name this car..... I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
pippy Posted July 28, 2024 Share #22302 Posted July 28, 2024 OK; let's try this one. Usual stuff if possible! Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Philip. Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Philip. ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=5449494'>More sharing options...
Indeepthought Posted July 28, 2024 Share #22303 Posted July 28, 2024 Citroen Traction circa 1935 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelG Posted July 28, 2024 Share #22304 Posted July 28, 2024 Roupell Street? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted July 28, 2024 Share #22305 Posted July 28, 2024 (edited) I am also going to say Citroen but the later and larger Big Six. On the assumption that at least Citroen is correct, has anyone noticed the strange name of the place in France where they were built (other than UK cars which were made in Slough up to 1966). It is called Le Quai de Javel, which if my French is correct means the Quay of Bleach, as Bleach is Eau de Javel. On that basis one might have expected most Citroens to be white rather than black. Wilson Edited July 28, 2024 by wlaidlaw 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelG Posted July 28, 2024 Share #22306 Posted July 28, 2024 Wikipedia is your friend… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javel,_Paris 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted July 28, 2024 Share #22307 Posted July 28, 2024 Advertisement (gone after registration) 4 hours ago, Indeepthought said: Citroen Traction circa 1935 Yes! 3 hours ago, NigelG said: Roupell Street? I was 100% sure that you would have spotted the street which I also knew would give you the marque! Indeepthought is, I'm pretty much certain, spot on in that it is a 1935-ish Traction Avant. In this year (so I've just read!) the fuel-filler was a single unit at the right rear of the car which is accurate for this vehicle. A few snaps of the full thing. First two were probably taken late 1940's(*) but with a third image in Glorious Technicolour to highlight the rather snazzy wheel colour-option! Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Thanks for playing folks and over to Indeepthought for the next puzzle! Philip. * No; not really. Just last October to be truthful... 3 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Thanks for playing folks and over to Indeepthought for the next puzzle! Philip. * No; not really. Just last October to be truthful... ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=5449931'>More sharing options...
Indeepthought Posted July 28, 2024 Share #22308 Posted July 28, 2024 Let’s open it up - anyone? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted July 29, 2024 Share #22309 Posted July 29, 2024 All the usuals, please: Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=5450677'>More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted July 29, 2024 Share #22310 Posted July 29, 2024 W196? Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viv Posted July 29, 2024 Share #22311 Posted July 29, 2024 Mercedes 300SL Gullwing - special model the name of which I can't remember (Uhlendorf?). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted July 29, 2024 Share #22312 Posted July 29, 2024 It is a W196, and "Uhlenhaut" is in the name. Two of the 9 or so c0mpetition 300SL chassis became this classic streamliner. This one is in Indianapolis, and Newfields Art Museum and Gardens. Wilson wins again. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 4 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=5450771'>More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted July 29, 2024 Share #22313 Posted July 29, 2024 Open to all as usual. It was rumoured that a W196 had changed hands recently, privately and not at auction, for around $100,000,000. I will have to ask the next time I speak to Tom Hartley, as he is bound to know, keeping a finger on the pulse of high valued cars like he does. If it is the one bought at Bonhams at Goodwood in 2013, the owner will have made a handsome profit, as that fetched $29,650,000 for the ex-Fangio non-streamliner. Wilson 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelG Posted July 29, 2024 Share #22314 Posted July 29, 2024 Since Mercedes themselves sold their 300SLR Uhlenhaut coupe in 2022 for €135M(!) to a British collector I’m guessing the prices for the most specialised cars will only head even further “out there”… 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted July 29, 2024 Share #22315 Posted July 29, 2024 Nigel, Yes and no. I believe that the 250GTO that my brother used to own (3527GT - the ex-Lucien Bianchi car) sold for less recently than what he got for it around 4 or 5 years ago. He said it was by a large margin, the best investment he ever made. Wilson 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted July 29, 2024 Share #22316 Posted July 29, 2024 Who wants to jump in for Wilson? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted July 29, 2024 Share #22317 Posted July 29, 2024 (edited) 1 hour ago, stuny said: Who wants to jump in for Wilson? If no one objects to my serving-up another - just to occupy such time as we have before we get a 'real' offering - I will post another photograph merely to act as Stopgap Entertainment. Due to various snapping difficulties in the place where it is kept I only considered it neccessary to take one photograph of the car* (for reference purposes) and only the front section at that but it is a rather interesting thing in the history of the marque so might be of some interest to many here and there is an outside chance that it is not familiar even to the Usual Suspects. Mind you; I have some serious doubts about that last remark... If anyone knows what it is then, of course, they will also know all the details which are pertinent. Have fun! Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Philip. * I have had a look at somewhere else on the web that has pics of this very car and they include one taken from the exact same position; it is NOT easy to get a great all-round pic of the thing. I only had my 50mm Summicron with me (on the M9-P) but now know that, were I to return, a 28mm at the very least would be required! Edited July 29, 2024 by pippy Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Philip. * I have had a look at somewhere else on the web that has pics of this very car and they include one taken from the exact same position; it is NOT easy to get a great all-round pic of the thing. I only had my 50mm Summicron with me (on the M9-P) but now know that, were I to return, a 28mm at the very least would be required! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=5451348'>More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted July 30, 2024 Share #22318 Posted July 30, 2024 Could it be a special built on a post war Delahaye 135S chassis? Wilson 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted July 30, 2024 Share #22319 Posted July 30, 2024 (edited) 1 hour ago, wlaidlaw said: Could it be a special built on a post war Delahaye 135S chassis? Wilson No, Wilson, Not a Delahaye. It is post-war but, despite the colour-scheme, is not even French! It could certainly be described as being 'special built' as it is a very early example of a car made by this company so was almost completely hand assembled by the chap who started the firm. He also designed the bodywork himself. One clue as regards it's country of origin? The rev counter "...originates from a Supermarine Spitfire..." although I should add that the engine in this model has a cc less than 1/20th that of the RR Merlin......😺...... Here's a little bit more; Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Philip. Edited July 30, 2024 by pippy Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Philip. ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=5451904'>More sharing options...
Indeepthought Posted July 30, 2024 Share #22320 Posted July 30, 2024 Connaght 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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