"Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis" (Dwhite95)
12/05/2014 at 14:33 • Filed to: None
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"Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis" (Dwhite95)
12/05/2014 at 14:33 • Filed to: None | 2
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What is this car here? EDIT: The article says " he even exhibited a roadster that he'd built himself at the Paris Motor Show in the 1950s" Maybe this is the car he built himself.
505Turbeaux
> Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
12/05/2014 at 14:41 |
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I went through and googled all the models I was not familiar with, and I come up blank. Gorgeous as is though, damn
heliochrome85
> Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
12/05/2014 at 14:42 |
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my guess is delahaye
MIATAAAA
> Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
12/05/2014 at 14:54 |
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Definitely a Lambo.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
12/05/2014 at 15:03 |
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Yeah, my money is on this being the "built himself". There are a couple obvious points of small builder or cheapness, and it might be fiberglass. Definitely Saoutchik/Delahaye/F&F type influences, but the wider grill speaks to post-war stuff like the Talbots. It's like the roadster gestalt of the whole collection.
Pixel
> 505Turbeaux
12/05/2014 at 15:04 |
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I just did the same thing. I'm suspecting it might be one of the special Talbots at the end of the list, but no way to know.
RPM esq.
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
12/05/2014 at 15:06 |
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The lack of headlight fairings or mounting points for them supports this theory...the period French styling influences are clear, but increasingly clever streamlined headlight fairings were a big part of that period and of the back-and-forth between competing designers building on each others' work, and this body completely lacks them.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> RPM esq.
12/05/2014 at 15:12 |
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That, to me, was the biggest "this was never a road car" flag. The points of cheapness I mention are that it has silver paint where a "real" car would have chrome on the fender sponsons, the hood ornament-like thing *may* be made of wood or milled out of bar, and the differing corrosion on the elements of the grill suggest that it was kitbashed from at least two things - made of aluminum and chromed steel. A big no-no on most cars on the same part.
All of those things in terms of finish wouldn't have been a shock if this were one of the rarities from the teens to twenties, but the styling is obviously all wrong for that.
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RPM esq.
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
12/05/2014 at 15:16 |
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Good points all. The overlapping grill bars are perhaps the most distinctive design element, and not something I've ever seen on a car from the period—but also, I suspect, a product of cheapness: much easier to fashion several separate bars, shape and fasten them, than to fabricate a whole interlaced grille.
Saoul-Virage
> Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
12/05/2014 at 15:56 |
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Saw it on the TV news, they said it is a car from is own conception. Here is the video :
http://videos.tf1.fr/jt-we/2014/sal…