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« Reply #1935 on: October 20, 2009, 09:22:33 am » |
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« Reply #1936 on: October 20, 2009, 10:27:16 am » |
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came across this one in San Francisco earlier in the year when I should have been at Le Mans instead
Edited for accuracy... Quite right Andy, I'm still whipping myself every morning. H
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« Reply #1937 on: October 20, 2009, 10:47:30 am » |
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I'm still whipping myself every morning. Don't try and change the subject... |
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« Reply #1938 on: October 20, 2009, 04:31:03 pm » |
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Peter, I understood you gave up work the day you joined the Post Office, you were about fifteen years old weren't you. You remember, it was just after the war...  |
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I wouldn't sit there if I were you, it's still a bit wet.
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« Reply #1939 on: October 20, 2009, 05:24:27 pm » |
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« Reply #1940 on: October 20, 2009, 10:59:11 pm » |
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..........and a war was just starting in Vietnam So thats where the Zulus live |
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« Reply #1941 on: October 25, 2009, 06:46:07 pm » |
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Someone to pay attention to old cars and not boys? Could it be simca? |
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Some people will tell you that slow is good - and it may be, on some days - but I am here to tell you that fast is better.
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« Reply #1942 on: October 25, 2009, 10:03:14 pm » |
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Not Simca but same country
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« Reply #1943 on: October 25, 2009, 10:18:25 pm » |
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.......Leather straps, could it be a piece of very early Louis Vuitton carriage luggage? I had to close my eBay account when I found I was selling 60 imitation Louis Vuitton handbags. Are we still trying to find out what the Blue lump of cr@p is, I thought I saw something black and sleek. If it was british, it would be an AC or a Greeves. Is it an early Mega or a Rova |
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« Reply #1944 on: October 25, 2009, 10:44:17 pm » |
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As BMW were building bubblecars in those days (they'd moved up from Austin 7s, like Nissan and Willys), it could be a Panhard, Bonnet, Alpine or Matra - something with some Le Mans heritage, hence the straps
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« Reply #1945 on: October 25, 2009, 11:05:16 pm » |
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Ok manucfacture Rovin, Cyclops robert de rovin had built motorcycles before the war with his brother raoul. His original rovin car had a single headlight and a rear-mounted 260cc single engine but never made it to production. The 1947 salon saw a more polished design, with two headlights, roll-up windows and a 425cc flat twin engine. About 380 were built before it was succeeded by the wider-bodied rovin d3 at the end of 1948. falling sales at 370,000 francs, the first rovins were more expensive than the citroen 2cv, but sold well anyway because there was a four-year waiting list for the little citroen. Later rovin models undercut the citroen in price but sold no better. In 1952, the engine was enlarged to 462 cc, but sales continued to fall. Petering out at the end of the fifties, the rovin had come in like a lion but went out like a lamb.
The rovin was as basic as could be, but ironically was built in the old delaunay-belleville luxury car factory.
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« Reply #1946 on: October 25, 2009, 11:35:26 pm » |
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Rova was close
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« Reply #1947 on: October 26, 2009, 08:21:21 am » |
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Yes, ROVIN D4
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« Reply #1948 on: October 26, 2009, 12:05:05 pm » |
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yippie - i got one right  Ok - I choose black, and i think I'll get this one right for some reason.  And on to the next one What can you tell me about this one. looking at the size of it, i think that Rovin would sit in the boot of this one. |
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« Reply #1949 on: October 26, 2009, 01:40:07 pm » |
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Panzer III engine??
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