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dracu777
08-05-2005, 08:17 PM
Does anyone know what any of these cars are?

GT2addic
08-05-2005, 09:30 PM
Man! I don't know! The cars in the 2nd and 3rd pic looks pretty.........














ugly!

henk4
08-06-2005, 12:19 AM
my guess for the first pic would be an Essex, the second a Fiat 1100 Coupe and the third is the number 150 participant in the Tour Auto 2002. That should allow you to get a clue

drakkie
08-06-2005, 12:35 AM
the third is probably italian.As you can see the big front grille, this was first featured on a Cisitalia.manybrnds have copied and adapted this grille.it was quite "trendy"back then.Even Ferrari followed the trend and had some cars with grilles like this.i can look up which ferrari, but i'm too lazy to alk to my bookshelf ;)

Wouter Melissen
08-06-2005, 03:04 AM
It would not surprise me if the third car is a Fiat 8V.

blackcat77
08-06-2005, 08:07 PM
When I first saw that third car, the thought that went through my head was "Pegaso." That's probably wrong, but I have an amazing way of zenning stuff like that.

Matra et Alpine
08-07-2005, 12:32 AM
Delahaye

dracu777
08-07-2005, 06:52 AM
You are right Matra. Do you have any idea what model/year that is? I can't seem to find anything.

Matra et Alpine
08-07-2005, 05:39 PM
With a "google" on delahaye and tour auto, I found this image whcih confrms the model is the 148 :)
http://www.classicdriver.com/upload/images/_de/1023/others/img18pop.jpg

henk4
08-08-2005, 12:57 AM
With a "google" on delahaye and tour auto, I found this image whcih confrms the model is the 148 :)
http://www.classicdriver.com/upload/images/_de/1023/others/img18pop.jpg

I am sure you initially recognised it from the badge :D

Matra et Alpine
08-08-2005, 02:31 AM
I am sure you initially recognised it from the badge :D
Your picture wasn't good enough for that :D

The narrow split screen was the pointer to only a few cars for me.
I went with dalahaye cos the lines looked "French" to me - sad eh :)

Could't have remembered the model though without the googling :) I'm bad at car NUMBERS, much preferring/remembering names :D

henk4
08-08-2005, 03:10 AM
Your picture wasn't good enough for that :D

The narrow split screen was the pointer to only a few cars for me.
I went with dalahaye cos the lines looked "French" to me - sad eh :)

Could't have remembered the model though without the googling :) I'm bad at car NUMBERS, much preferring/remembering names :D

it was not my picture in the first place :D

Matra et Alpine
08-08-2005, 03:19 AM
it was not my picture in the first place :D
oops :o

it was such a nice one I just assumed it was from the Melissen stable :)

henk4
08-08-2005, 03:22 AM
oops :o

it was such a nice one I just assumed it was from the Melissen stable :)

yep, and then we would have forgotten to collect the starting list :D

Matra et Alpine
08-08-2005, 03:34 AM
yep, and then we would have forgotten to collect the starting list :D
it's OK, Pieter at your age we would have forgiven and not mentioned it :D

henk4
08-08-2005, 03:40 AM
it's OK, Pieter at your age we would have forgiven and not mentioned it :D

the Melissens is not only me :)

dracu777
08-15-2005, 03:00 PM
It turns out that the first car is a Studebaker of some sort (I compared it to other pix in my collection, and the headlights, grille and badges match). The second one was harder to find. It turns out that it is not a Fiat but rather a Peugeot. The 203 Darl'Mat Prototype from 1953. Here are some more pictures of it. The info was found on www.gtdreams.com. The car was present at this years Retromobile.

dracu777
08-15-2005, 03:12 PM
The third car is just what Matra said it was. A Delahaye 148. And after researching I came up with a little more detail. It is a 148 Antem Coupe from 1948. Here is another pic.

dracu777
08-15-2005, 03:14 PM
Speaking of one-off Peugeots. Check this one out. It is from 1959 and it is a 403 Radovitch.

henk4
08-16-2005, 06:21 AM
interesting as I was at Retromobile myself and failed to see the DarlMat Peugeot and I took a good look around the Peugeot stand, picking out all the niceties including these three 403 cabrios, of which you just showed one