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Title: Solved - MJW #777 - LeBlond Speciale No.2 BMW based 1949
Post by: woodinsight on December 22, 2011, 03:45:08 AM

Identify the car and year for a point (apologies for the poor image)

Title: Re: MJW #777
Post by: Paul Jaray on December 23, 2011, 03:51:05 PM

Quote from: woodinsight on December 22, 2011, 03:45:08 AM

Identify the car and year for a point (apologies for the poor image)

I can help:

Title: Re: MJW #777
Post by: woodinsight on December 23, 2011, 11:22:30 PM

Thanks PJ - much appreciated as I only had a poor photocopy of the car.

Title: Re: MJW #777
Post by: woodinsight on December 29, 2011, 03:57:37 AM

Experts?

Title: Re: MJW #777
Post by: bentleybob on December 31, 2011, 07:35:38 AM

Is this a LeBlond Talbot or BMW, one of the many rebodies of one or two only created? I think it still exists in red..but with a leter body?

Title: Re: MJW #777
Post by: woodinsight on December 31, 2011, 09:22:43 AM

Quote from: bentleybob on December 31, 2011, 07:35:38 AM

Is this a LeBlond Talbot or BMW, one of the many rebodies of one or two only created? I think it still exists in red..but with a leter body?

Yes, it is a LeBlond Speciale, one of 3 or 4 created I believe.
Unfortunately the article I had on the car is now in store for the moment, therefore I can't tell you what car this particular one is based on.
I'll lock it for you to tell me whether this was the first or second car produced and the year it appeared.
 

Title: Re: MJW #777
Post by: bentleybob on December 31, 2011, 10:01:45 AM

Apparently Leblond N°2 BMW 326 (first body by BMW?)based, this being the second body but I don't know by whom now, with the third body (off a 1954 Talbot Lago 2,5l   by Desvaux for Eugéne Martin) which was on by 1955.  Short-wheelbase chassis equipped with Bugatti brakes and Type 57 SC rear axle, it seems ???

Title: Re: MJW #777
Post by: woodinsight on December 31, 2011, 10:10:37 AM

Quote from: bentleybob on December 31, 2011, 10:01:45 AM

Apparently Leblond N°2 BMW 326 (first body by BMW?)based, this being the second body but I don't know by whom now, with the third body (off a 1954 Talbot Lago 2,5l   by Desvaux for Eugéne Martin) which was on by 1955.  Short-wheelbase chassis equipped with Bugatti brakes and Type 57 SC rear axle, it seems ???

Yes, that's it and I believe you have the full answer there if I remember the article.
Another point for you.

Title: Re: Solved - MJW #777 - LeBlond Speciale No.2 BMW based 1949
Post by: woodinsight on May 19, 2012, 04:19:41 AM

Here's another couple of photos, one of the body under construction in Desvaux's workshops in 1954 and the second of the car when completed on the LeBlond chassis No. 2 in 1955.