Who knows this racing car?
Make and year are sufficient for one point.
One extra point for the exact (and quite unusual) place, where this race event took place...
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German?
Car and place are not German.
BUC?
Not BUC.
American?
Well not American, but the first guess BUC hit the correct country instantly...
I think it could be a 1926 Guyot-Speciale.
Or a Lombard 1.5 Litre?
One point for Wendax!
It is indeed a Guyot race car.
Now there is a second point available for the unusual location of this event.
LOCKED for Wendax.
Inside a building?
Yes - a building very closely related to cars... ;)
Probably an automobile factory. If it was Italian, I would say Lingotto, but I don't think that a rare French car would have been raced there. It doesn't look like Quai Javel or Ile Seguin either.
I might have another picture of the same event, stored for quite a while without further information:
Not a factory.
Where to go with a car in a crowded city...? ;)
PS: the photo you posted might indeed show the same event!
Three more guesses for you, O.K.?
Okay, it is a hillclimb race in a multi-storey car park, in Paris. Unfortunately, the French term for it is just garage. Ever tried googling it? ;D
It is not Garage Ponthieu. I found a second photo to the one posted by me before:
It is not Garage Ponthieu...
But it is a Paris garage, of course.
Two more tries.
To help:
it was a massive eight-storey building, and here is a photo of the facade:
Well, I finally found it. And no, I didn't spend the night virtually walking through Paris by looking at Google Streetview. ;D
The race took place at the Garage Banville:
Wow, now you definitly deserve the second point!
The manager of the Garage Banville was none other than Robert Benoist, famous pre-war grand prix driver and later a leader in the Resistance.
Interesting!
Thank you.
Here´s a rather funny participants of that race:
I found a magazine clipping from February 1933.
It seems it was "en vogue" to celebrate the opening of new big garages with a race in the old days in France...
Wendax, I think your first two photos show this different event at a new garage at Rue de la Tombe Issoire:
Thanks for that. If the building still exists, it should be this one, formerly a BMW dealer, recently being converted to an apartment building (two-room apartment starting at € 840,000 :o):
Another original 1927 source:
I wonder where did you find those... ::)
Well, I use every hint I can get... :D
I think I know who will solve the only puzzle I'm going to take from there, then ;D
Time to polish my Polish ;D
I found another sad fact there:
De Courcelles died in this very Guyot car only some months later at Linas Montlhery... :(
Possibly his last photo alive: