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37013 messages, Last post on May 23, 2013 at 3:03 PM
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#35626 of 37013 Re: Million dollar ride> [grahampeters] by grahampeters
Jan 25, 2013 (12:07 am)
Replying to: grahampeters (Jan 24, 2013 6:50 pm)
G'day This has been niggling at me all afternoon. Sort of like a Chapron body, possibly on a Delahaye chassis. But I am not sure that is right.
There was also a gorgeous body on a Talbot Lago with approximately this shape to nose, but proportions look wrong.
Cheers
Graham
#35627 of 37013 Re: Million dollar ride> [andys120] by magnette
Jan 25, 2013 (5:48 am)
Replying to: andys120 (Jan 24, 2013 5:41 pm)
This is a Delahaye - probably a 235 - and the body looks really swoopy and curvy, so is the coachbuilder Sauchock (? spelling)?
- andys120 (Jan 25, 2013 7:33 am)
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#35628 of 37013 Re: Million dollar ride> [magnette] by andys120
Jan 25, 2013 (7:33 am)
Replying to: magnette (Jan 25, 2013 5:48 am)
You guys are on the ball, it is indeed a 1949 Delahaye 175 with a Sedan DeVille body by Saoutchik. Saoutchik was probably the most flamboyant of the French coachbuilders that dominated auto styling during the 30s and 40s. Changes in French tax laws killed their business in the 50s and the Italians took over.
The pictured car went for $1.8 million
Barret-Jackson last week.
#35629 of 37013 ??? by lemko
Jan 25, 2013 (7:38 am)
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#35631 of 37013 Re: ??? [lemko] by michaell
Jan 25, 2013 (7:46 am)
Replying to: lemko (Jan 25, 2013 7:38 am)
Vauxhall Corsa (?) - 80's vintage.
- lemko (Jan 25, 2013 8:21 am)
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#35632 of 37013 Re: ??? [michaell] by lemko
Jan 25, 2013 (8:21 am)
Replying to: michaell (Jan 25, 2013 7:46 am)
Right make. Wrong model.
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#35633 of 37013 Re: ??? [lemko] by ateixeira
Jan 25, 2013 (9:15 am)
Replying to: lemko (Jan 25, 2013 8:21 am)
I will guess Opel Kadett. They sold Kadetts in Brazil as Chevys, and that looks awfully familiar.
They're bigger than Corsas, about a size up.
- fintail (Jan 25, 2013 10:38 am)
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#35634 of 37013 Re: ??? [ateixeira] by fintail
Jan 25, 2013 (10:38 am)
Replying to: ateixeira (Jan 25, 2013 9:15 am)
The pictured car is Kadett E based - but is not an Opel. UK variant would be Vauxhall Astra.
- lemko (Jan 25, 2013 12:11 pm)
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#35635 of 37013 Re: ??? [fintail] by lemko
Jan 25, 2013 (12:11 pm)
Replying to: fintail (Jan 25, 2013 10:38 am)
Actually, the car is a 1989 Vauxhall Belmont sold in the UK. We suffered with this car as the Daewoo-built Pontiac LeMans.
- fintail (Jan 25, 2013 12:13 pm)
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