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Title: Puzzle #162 - Solved! Salmson 2300 by Motto
Post by: Otto Puzzell on January 04, 2007, 04:54:22 AM
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Title: Re: Puzzle #162
Post by: Ultra on January 04, 2007, 11:43:28 PM
Don't know what it is but I think it looks sweet.

8)
Title: Re: Puzzle #162
Post by: porridgehead on January 05, 2007, 12:09:04 AM
I was thinking the exact same thing. It has a Mercedes 250 Seb Coupe style greenhouse with an Italian coachwork body. A very iappealing combo, if'n you ask me.
Title: Re: Puzzle #162
Post by: shamrock on January 05, 2007, 02:17:15 AM
could it be a special bodied talbot .
Title: Re: Puzzle #162
Post by: Otto Puzzell on January 05, 2007, 05:17:53 AM
Not a Talbot or a Merc.
Title: Re: Puzzle #162
Post by: MG on January 05, 2007, 07:51:49 AM
I actually think its a Studebaker.   Probably designed by Raymond Loewy before the roof fell in...... ???
Title: Re: Puzzle #162
Post by: Otto Puzzell on January 05, 2007, 07:54:55 AM
Not a Studebaker
Title: Re: Puzzle #162
Post by: SeaLion on January 06, 2007, 09:39:52 AM
Is it french?
A rebodied Ford/Simca Vedette or Ford/Simca/Facel Comète perhaps?
Title: Re: Puzzle #162
Post by: Otto Puzzell on January 06, 2007, 11:09:06 AM
Not a Ford, Simca or Facel.
Title: Re: Puzzle #162
Post by: Allan L on January 08, 2007, 11:56:05 AM
Photo seems to be taken at a French-speaking location, so either Geneva or Paris Show.
Title: Re: Puzzle #162
Post by: Otto Puzzell on January 17, 2007, 01:56:52 PM
Yep.
Title: Re: Puzzle #162
Post by: lynxd67 on January 18, 2007, 12:18:18 PM
Facel vega?
Title: Re: Puzzle #162
Post by: Otto Puzzell on January 18, 2007, 12:36:51 PM
Not a Facel
Title: Re: Puzzle #162
Post by: MG on January 18, 2007, 07:17:58 PM
Monteverdi at Geneva?    ???
Title: Re: Puzzle #162
Post by: Allan L on January 19, 2007, 04:35:13 AM
Quote from: MG on January 18, 2007, 07:17:58 PM
Monteverdi at Geneva?    ???
Any connection with Montiverdi's Vespas? ;D
Title: Re: Puzzle #162
Post by: Otto Puzzell on January 19, 2007, 04:40:04 AM
Quote from: MG on January 18, 2007, 07:17:58 PM
Monteverdi at Geneva?    ???

No, not a Monteverdi
Title: Re: Puzzle #162
Post by: shamrock on January 19, 2007, 06:16:02 AM
How about a Graber bodied Rover ?
Title: Re: Puzzle #162
Post by: Otto Puzzell on January 19, 2007, 08:39:38 AM
Not a Rover.
Title: Re: Puzzle #162
Post by: Allan L on January 21, 2007, 12:44:46 PM
Coachbuilder's Salmson?
Title: Re: Puzzle #162
Post by: Otto Puzzell on January 22, 2007, 04:49:00 AM
Oui!
Title: Re: Puzzle #162
Post by: Allan L on January 22, 2007, 06:13:31 AM
Quote from: Allan L on January 21, 2007, 12:44:46 PM
Coachbuilder's Salmson?
I suppose you want the name of the coachbuilder?
Chapron?
Title: Re: Puzzle #162
Post by: Otto Puzzell on January 22, 2007, 07:18:30 AM
I was looking for the model. However, the coachbuilder is not Chapron.
Title: Re: Puzzle #162
Post by: Allan L on January 22, 2007, 07:46:30 AM
Quote from: KarnUtz on January 22, 2007, 07:18:30 AM
I was looking for the model. However, the coachbuilder is not Chapron.
2300
Title: Re: Puzzle #162
Post by: Otto Puzzell on January 22, 2007, 07:49:33 AM
Correct!

This car was built by the Italian coachbuilder, Motto. Constructed at the very end of Salmson's history as a manufacturer, this car appeared at the Paris Salon in 1956.
Title: Re: Puzzle #162 - Solved! Salmson 2300 by Motto
Post by: Allan L on January 23, 2007, 09:42:11 AM
I found no photo to match this, but my references said Chapron and Motto built bodies for the 2300 and I guessed the wrong one on a 50/50 chance. ;D
Other than that I have never even heard of Motto, much less seen examples of their work
Title: Re: Puzzle #162 - Solved! Salmson 2300 by Motto
Post by: grobmotorix on February 08, 2012, 03:25:58 PM
Here´s another photo - no doubt about the facts...:
Title: Re: Puzzle #162 - Solved! Salmson 2300 by Motto
Post by: Carnut on June 05, 2014, 09:32:56 AM
A rear view:

Title: Re: Puzzle #162 - Solved! Salmson 2300 by Motto
Post by: galrot on November 04, 2016, 02:45:00 PM
Recent pictures of this car.
Title: Re: Puzzle #162 - Solved! Salmson 2300 by Motto
Post by: grobmotorix on October 13, 2017, 04:35:19 PM
And yet another 1956 photo:
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