Can you identify this car? Brand, model, year and coachbuilder required to get a point.
BMW chassis?
No Bmw connection.
French ?
Oui.
Delage ± 1953 ?
Not Delage and earlier.
1950 Delahaye ?
Not Delahaye and earlier.
1948 Hotchkiss ?
Not Hotchkiss, and a little bit earlier.
1947 Talbot Lago?
1947 is right, but not a Talbot-Lago.
Citroen?
Not Citroen.
Peugeot 203 ?
No...it's from 1947! Anyway not Peugeot.
Quote from: targhediferro on July 11, 2014, 04:19:37 PM
No...it's from 1947! Anyway not Peugeot.
Well some sources say it was introduced in 1947.... Anyway, major or small brand ?
Not what we call an obscure brand, but I can't call it a major one.
Salmson ?
Not Salmson.
1947 Delaunay-Belleville Type R 16 Coach By Antem.
Perfect! I suppose the correct model is RI-6 but I haven't find an absolutely affordable source or other pictures of this car...does anybody have?
Here you are:
According to Georgano, only 14 RI-6 models were completed, of which 13 were standard "coach" saloons, with this single coupe by Antem. So it's pretty rare :).
. . . And actually a pretty nice-looking car, especially for 1947. The clues along the way were mostly "process of elimination" . . . It was established by others that it was a 1947 French car, and all of the most obvious marques were offered and rejected. That led me to establish a quick list of the French auto manufacturers producing cars in 1947 (the internet is our friend), which ran to about 25 cars. Many of them were producers of small postwar mini-cars, so my search centered on the five or six manufacturers who might have produced a car of this size: Chenard-Walcker, Georges Irat, Mathis, Rosengart, Simca . . . And Delaunay-Belleville. I wasn't familiar with the RI-6 (no wonder, wth only 14 produced) but this apparent one-off by Antelm is a pretty handsome car. A good and challenging puzzle.
Thank you for those pretty pictures.
Pure coincidence, that I found those on my HDD...
The car is to be seen at the lower left corner of this 1946 Paris Salon view: