Name this car....

[Jim J]

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Looks like a Mark VI 4 1/4 litre Drophead Coupe (1946-52).

[a.j.z]

Welcome to this thread, Jim!

Yes, a 4 1/4 drophead coupe, but from 1936. As I did not ask for the year: your turn.

This car is ex Woolf Barnato, who won LeMans three times in three tries (but not with this car)

 

 

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Edited May 22, 2020 by a.j.z

[wlaidlaw]

I have to say I don't find the Mulliner coachwork on this car terribly attractive. Somehow many of the 4¼ Bentleys had rather heavy looking and lumpy bodywork, with particularly unattractive high sill doors to accommodate the large wind up windows. I actually prefer Woolf Barnato's scarlet painted, Gurney Nutting bodied closed coupé on the same chassis. The Mulliner car is one of those rare open cars, which looks much better with its hood up. British coachbuilders were going through a particularly stagnant phase in the mid to late thirties, maybe driven by the very conservative nature and desires of their buyers. Compared with the French who were IMHO at their very peak at this period, with Figoni and Falaschi  and Saoutchik plus Graber in Switzerland and De Mola in Belgium, producing stunning bodies, this era belonged to them as much as the 50's and 60's belonged to the Italians. 

As an aside, I was shown round some of the private artefacts of the Rhodes house when I was in South Africa earlier this year. I think it helped that I arrived in a 3-8 litre racing Bentley. Amongst the items was a cancelled personal cheque written by Sir Cecil Rhodes to Woolf Barnato's father Barney, for the purchase of his interest in the De Beers Diamond company for £5,338,650 in 1889, the largest cheque that had ever been written up to that time. In today's money that is close to £700 million but in purchasing power, rather more than that. 

Wilson

[hektor]

If my memory serves me right, the 1936 Bentley 4¼ was for Mrs Barnato.  The body was originally on a 1934 3½

litre chassis which Mrs Barnato liked so much it was transferred to the 1936 Bentley 4¼.

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Edited May 23, 2020 by hektor

[Jim J]

16 hours ago, a.j.z said:

Welcome to this thread, Jim!

Yes, a 4 1/4 drophead coupe, but from 1936. As I did not ask for the year: your turn.

Hi.

Unfortunately, owing to the rules for posting photographs on this forum, although I have several hundred photographs of old cars, I can't post any of them, as none of them have been taken with a Leica.  I do own a Leica (a 1936 IIIa) but, at present, I don't have a lens for it, although one is in transit as I post this.  Once I receive it I will be able to contribute more than words to this forum.

In the meantime, maybe Hektor or one of the others who were guessing the ID of this car could post the next one.

Jim

[a.j.z]

I think we agreed that in this thread we also can make exceptions to keep things going. This thread is not about photos but guessing cars. You often see a nice car and do not have a Leica at hand. So unless a moderator objects I suggest you just continue.

[stuny]

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I think we must remain with the rules - flexing them here will lead to arguments when others post non-Leica photos here and elsewhere in the forum - This is not supposition, but observation of behaviors on the forum over the years.

Jim - It doesn't have to be old cars.  If you scroll through this huge thread you'll find cars ranging from the original Benz to fresh production vehicles.  Perhaps you have something newer in your files which you shot with a Leica camera, or Leica lens or both?

Let's see what Jim says before going further.

[Jim J]

I regret that, until my f3.5 5cm Elmar arrives, I will have no photographs that are taken with a Leica camera or even another make of camera fitted with a Leica lens, so I will have to leave it for someone else to post the next one.

Referring to old cars was perhaps a bit of a slip on my part - my main interest is in old cars and I was in an old car mindset when I visited this thread.

[a.j.z]

Stuart, this thread is dying already and locking out a newcomer does not help;  this rule makes sense in the real Gallery or in threads about Leica equipment but this one is just for fun. And if somebody would post photos with other gear nobody would see the difference anyway (see the quote in my signature 😉). But you are the boss ...
 

[stuny]

Jim & everyone else on this thread -

Go with your one-time non-Leica photo.  This is the classic, "one time offer."

[Jim J]

All right, here we go:

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[stuny]

An Aussie car?

[Jim J]

2 hours ago, stuny said:

An Aussie car?

Australian assembled, but not really an Australian car as such.  I'm not an expert on this make but, as far as I know the model line-up was slightly different from in their home market, with some of the Australian assembled cars being a combination of two or more of the overseas models when it came to mechanicals or trim.

Edited May 24, 2020 by Jim J
clarification

[david strachan]

Hi Jim...not an early Vulvo,...I've  had several but don't remember those rear lights.  The rest fits in.

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[Jim J]

Not a Volvo.  This marque is no longer with us.

[david strachan]

Haha...thanks Jim...must have been thinking of something else regarding my original spelling. .Volvo, not Vulvo.

 

 

[a.j.z]

Regarding the home market: USA?

 

[Jim J]

Not a car originally from the USA.

[Jim J]

Think of where most Australian car manufacturers' parent companies were based.  We have already eliminated the US (or have we? - you will note I was trying to be a bit careful with the wording of my last answer)

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[a.j.z]

So an English manufactur that moved to the US and then went out of business???

I must admit that my knowledge of the Australian car market is more or less inexistent.

Edited May 24, 2020 by a.j.z