F#95 - Solved - 1953 MEP D7

faksta · October 19, 2009, 12:11:48 PM

What is this car?

HEMI 426 · October 19, 2009, 05:25:05 PM

Simca?

faksta · October 20, 2009, 07:15:01 AM

No, it's not Simca.

Tackitt · October 20, 2009, 06:12:39 PM

I have seen some Zagato-bodied Lancias that look real close to that.

faksta · October 21, 2009, 04:44:50 AM

Maybe, but it's not one of them

faksta · October 27, 2009, 03:45:56 AM

To the Experts

franck.kegelart · October 27, 2009, 04:42:14 AM

It is a MEP ( nicknamed Daphné ) built in France during the 50s by Maurice-Emile Pezous ; it has a tubular home-built frame and a Citroën Traction engine ; seven were built, I think the one pictured is the first, an the engine has been replaced by a DS one.

franck.kegelart · October 27, 2009, 04:43:29 AM

I forgot the precise model name : it is a MEP D7

faksta · October 27, 2009, 05:06:38 AM

You're right, I'll move this to solved and award you a point when I'll get to my records and be 100% sure (now I'm just 99,9%).

faksta · October 28, 2009, 06:33:06 PM

Solved and point awarded

Paul Jaray · November 01, 2009, 05:32:09 PM

This one should be called 170SL from 1954, the D7 is this: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=6900.0

fnqvmuch · November 01, 2009, 05:52:31 PM

must try to work out where i found these, but they are all captioned MEP 7D - ?

Paul Jaray · November 01, 2009, 06:16:59 PM

I have the same pics and I know that source is reliable...I did not read all the 5 pages, but some other sources calls it 170sl..
This comes from René Bellu book:

faksta · November 02, 2009, 03:08:00 AM

Hmm..it has been identified as 1953 MEP D7 prototype (MEP D7-1) in its last incarnation. In my source (web) there are 7 chassis described and they're not all the same, although all called D7. Maybe we should ask there?

nicanary · October 25, 2016, 02:28:13 PM

I was reading an old account by Denis Jenkinson the other day, and he mentioned that he'd stopped at a garage in Albi amd spotted this car which had been built by the garage proprietor, based on a Citroen 15cv. He photographed the car because he was so impressed by the design and engineering involved, but he didn't mention the name of the builder.

I've had a look through all 8 pages of "Citroen" on AP, and couldn't find it, so this could be new to us all. Any ideas?

Djetset · October 25, 2016, 02:41:34 PM

From memory this was the first vehicle to be constructed by M.E.P., which went on to build the nice little M.E.P. Formula bleu racers that used air-cooled Panhard and Citroen engines. Currently a long way from home, but will try and dig out some proof of this when I'm next there later this week.

Allemano · October 25, 2016, 02:44:12 PM

M.E.P. is correct

nicanary · October 25, 2016, 02:52:38 PM

Quote from: Allemano on October 25, 2016, 02:44:12 PM
M.E.P. is correct

Thanks to Djetset and Allemano. It's obvious now! Typical of DSJ not to provide full info in his article, but he used to write his reports in long-hand and trust overseas postal services to get them to Boddy, so I'll let him off if he had to leave out some stuff which didn't seem important to him. It's been a previous puzzle.

Carnut · October 26, 2016, 04:30:14 AM

There were several different versions and I've considered posting one of them from my pictures file several times but they are all just a bit too similar so I haven't been tempted.. I thnk they were all posted in one of the threads below by fnqvmuch anyway.

Here are a couple of puzzles of the MEP Daphné which we've already had:

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2009-37/f95-solved-1953-mep-d7/msg78020/#msg78020

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2009-37/q286-solved-mep-daphne/msg51167/#msg51167

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F#95 - Solved - 1953 MEP D7