Year, make and model, please.
Nice one again Nicanary!
Quote from: Allan L on June 21, 2014, 11:02:44 AM
Nice one again Nicanary!
Yes, and some members think we're going to run out of marques to select!
Experts?
What a lovely little car! :)
French maybe?
Quote from: AlexFrance on July 14, 2014, 07:25:53 AM
What a lovely little car! :)
French maybe?
It is French, yes.
Was it made by a defunct, obscure manufacturer?
Quote from: AlexFrance on July 15, 2014, 04:25:20 AM
Was it made by a defunct, obscure manufacturer?
Yes. I think this is the only one left in existence.
It's the 1899 5hp Begot et Mazurie. I think it appeared many years ago in "The Veteran Moror Car Pocketbook" where it was nick-named the "Bag-o-Misery".
Quote from: FrontMan on July 20, 2014, 06:00:39 PM
It's the 1899 5hp Begot et Mazurie. I think it appeared many years ago in "The Veteran Moror Car Pocketbook" where it was nick-named the "Bag-o-Misery".
Well done. A point for you.
(I thought I had found something which would be hard to solve, but the next day I opened the latest issue of the world's largest circulation classic car magazine, and this very car was pictured for sale at a well-known dealer. I'm surprised it took so long to solve!)
Yes, Nicanary, your surprise is well justified as it had not been for sale for a very long time.
As I recall it, John Leitch inherited the Bégot & Mazurié from his father many decades before I knew him as a fellow researcher at the Veteran Car Club in the 1980s.
Fine little car in a minimalist sort of way with a four-speed gearbox and wheel steering even in 1899. As the dealer says, small size means light weight - for the car if not for the owner!
One car encyclopedia says that an (unnamed) English owner of a Begot et Mazurie, who wasn't too pleased with the car, referred to it as the "Bag o' Misery."