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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2015 => Topic started by: Wendax on April 14, 2013, 02:56:26 AM
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Form follows function.
For one point, please respond and identify the car to which this dashboard belongs.
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French? If yes, Rovin?
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French, but not Rovin
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Citroen 2 cv based?
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No
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This is the dashboard of the "Comtesse" (sometimes called "Comtesse 3") by Acoma.
The second vehicle produced of the Mini Comtesse series.
The "true" Mini Comtesse was the single-seater, with two auxilliary wheels on each side of the front driving wheel.
This model is the family version, with a squarer and much taller body, suitable for an adult (not a fast food lover, though !) and a children (under 14, as told by french law).
Still front wheel drive, but without the small rollers : the sides of the nose have just some rubber left and right, in case of a too-enthusiast brutal turn-in... ;D
Strangely, it is a right-hand drive, like the Veloto. Three types were produced : 770 E1 (Sachs ADLX engine), 770 E2 (Motobécane 93D engine) and the very rare 775 E2 (Motobécane 99Z). There was too the "Electro Comtesse" (760 TE type), with strangely a steel body, but it was only a prototype.
The Comtesse was really a transitional model, produced from 1977 to late 1980, caught between the strangely successful first Mini Comtesse (which the first serial production modern 50 cc french "sans permis") and the highly popular 4-wheels rear-wheel drive Super Comtesse released with the same body just a year later.
Sorry for a much too long answer... ;D
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It's always a pleasure to read your "much too long" answers. I feel tempted to post all French voitures sans permis one by one, just to learn more about them by reading your answers. ;D
One more point for you.
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The car this dashboard belongs to:
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It's always a pleasure to read your "much too long" answers. I feel tempted to post all French voitures sans permis one by one, just to learn more about them by reading your answers. ;D
One more point for you.
Thanks a lot, Wendax ! ;)
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Did someone steal the passenger airbag on the left? ;D
I recall having the dubious 'pleasure' of driving an early Comtesse and starring alarmingly at this dash, thinking it might be the last thing I ever see before I crash, as the car waddled from side to side down the road.
The instrument panel of my own later Super Comtesse looked like the dash of a Maserati by comparison!
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I know two things: it is not a Mercedes and the trailer is too big... but I don't know what actually is. Do you, for one point?
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Mini Comtesse?
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Almost right, but that's not exactly the name I have, Locked for you.
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Made by Acoma...
The Comtesse Super Mini?
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That is!
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In fact, it is the Acoma Comtesse Type 770E. The Super Comtesse was the four-wheeled version. It should be merged with this puzzle: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=24490
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In fact, it is the Acoma Comtesse Type 770E. The Super Comtesse was the four-wheeled version. It should be merged with this puzzle: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=24490
Thanks.
I'm sure you're right that the puzzles refer to the same vehicle, but the subject matter and pictures of the two puzzles are so different that I don't think merging them is necessary on this occasion.
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In fact, it is the Acoma Comtesse Type 770E. The Super Comtesse was the four-wheeled version. It should be merged with this puzzle: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=24490
Thanks.
I'm sure you're right that the puzzles refer to the same vehicle, but the subject matter and pictures of the two puzzles are so different that I don't think merging them is necessary on this occasion.
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