hektor Posted July 30, 2021 Share #15801 Posted July 30, 2021 (edited) Advertisement (gone after registration) Fiat 522 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! Edited July 30, 2021 by hektor 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=4247964'>More sharing options...
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luigi bertolotti Posted July 30, 2021 Share #15802 Posted July 30, 2021 (edited) You got it !! (I think) Year is consistent... and the well visible panel probably was removable to accomodate the spare wheel... 4 cyl. Fiat 515 was very similar indeed... but (maybe) had not the "S" version which looks to be this one (https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_522 - not quoted in the English page) Rummaging in old memories... 😉 I remember that my dad told me that a mechanician of the Bertolotti firm invented a poetic motto to magnify the superb heat dissipation that distinguished the 6 cylinders Fiats of the era... hard to explicate how it sounds clean and funny in the home dialect of our town : "Toca el radiatur / ciapa el rafredur !" (Touch the radiator / take a cold) 😄 Edited July 30, 2021 by luigi bertolotti 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hektor Posted July 30, 2021 Share #15803 Posted July 30, 2021 Grazie Luigi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_522 Your father's car had the accessory external sun-shade, a feature used on Australian cars until the advent of air-conditioning (cooling). 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hektor Posted July 30, 2021 Share #15804 Posted July 30, 2021 (edited) Having not heard to the contrary, I assume it is my turn: 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! Edited July 30, 2021 by hektor 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=4248342'>More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted July 31, 2021 Share #15805 Posted July 31, 2021 Uh... English ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted July 31, 2021 Share #15806 Posted July 31, 2021 (edited) Looks more French or German to my eye. I would say a Citroen 11CV cabriolet except I have never seen one with those rear wheel spats. The other car it looks a bit like is the 1937 Plymouth Roadster but again, the spats comment applies. Both of the foregoing had dickey/rumble seats. Wilson Edited July 31, 2021 by wlaidlaw Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hektor Posted July 31, 2021 Share #15807 Posted July 31, 2021 Advertisement (gone after registration) Neither English or French. Only another 155 countries to go. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted July 31, 2021 Share #15808 Posted July 31, 2021 (edited) Maybe a variant of an Opel Kapitan ? Edited July 31, 2021 by luigi bertolotti Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hektor Posted July 31, 2021 Share #15809 Posted July 31, 2021 Not an Opel of any type. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted July 31, 2021 Share #15810 Posted July 31, 2021 Mercedes 170 V Roadster. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted July 31, 2021 Share #15811 Posted July 31, 2021 Possibly something much taller 😉 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hektor Posted July 31, 2021 Share #15812 Posted July 31, 2021 6 hours ago, Rona!d said: Mercedes 170 V Roadster. Good morning Ronald. The car is a one-off. I have a copy of the 1972 letter from Daimler-Benz to the current owner, that on 22 February 1939 the car was sent to Batavia (Indonesia today). In 1949 the car was sent back to Singelfingen "to be fitted with the new front fenders [sic] (mudguards) incorporating headlights. At the same time the rear fenders were fitted with mudguards". 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! 1 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=4248982'>More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted July 31, 2021 Share #15813 Posted July 31, 2021 Wow, hektor. Rare car. Never seen this modernized version and indeed the in the fender integrated rear lights were my „problem“. For the other differences to the normal works 170 V Roadsters I thought of a special body. It‘s really interesting that the body is a Sindelfingen work (1938 and 1949). Does the car still exist and in which condition and where? For a second I was irritated that the car appears to be so high compared to the car behind but it was lifted on chassis stands. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hektor Posted July 31, 2021 Share #15814 Posted July 31, 2021 2 minutes ago, Rona!d said: Wow, hektor. Rare car. Never seen this modernized version and indeed the in the fender integrated rear lights were my „problem“. For the other differences to the normal works 170 V Roadsters I thought of a special body. It‘s really interesting that the body is s Sindelfingen work (1939 and 1949). Does the car still exist and in which cobdition and where? Hello Rona!d, it certainly does. I sat in it looking at the "modern" instrument panel before disassembly for restoration. As you might imagine, having spent its life in the tropics the wood frame was rotten. Here is the link: http://sleepingbeauties.com.au/170v.html 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hektor Posted August 1, 2021 Share #15815 Posted August 1, 2021 The car is illustrated and referred to at page 150 of the 1982 MERCEDES-BENZ Automobile (Band 3) by Halwart Schrader Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted August 1, 2021 Share #15816 Posted August 1, 2021 Seems I don‘t have good Mercedes books or was blind never seen it. Halfersheimer another possible option as now I remember vaguely that I saw some „strange“ smaller Benzes in B&W (possibly MB works) photos in my dad‘s books long ago. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted August 1, 2021 Share #15817 Posted August 1, 2021 Now that you mention Halward Schrader I have possibly seen it in another book of him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted August 1, 2021 Share #15818 Posted August 1, 2021 OK, the next one. 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! 1 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=4249187'>More sharing options...
stuny Posted August 1, 2021 Share #15819 Posted August 1, 2021 US, and if so, probably General Motors. Likely an Impala, Catalina, Boneville or 88 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelG Posted August 1, 2021 Share #15820 Posted August 1, 2021 I was thinking it looked rather faux American. Possibly an Auto Union DKW F12 cabrio? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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