Solved: Wendax 236 - SPAG Bol d'Or

Wendax · June 24, 2011, 02:54:16 AM

Another racer from long ago.

For one point, please respond and identify this car and year.

Wendax · July 01, 2011, 02:40:09 AM

up

Wendax · July 08, 2011, 02:21:51 AM

no Expert response, up it goes

grobmotorix · July 09, 2011, 05:19:53 AM

Is it a Gockerell?

Wendax · July 09, 2011, 02:40:10 PM

No Gockerell

Allemano · July 10, 2011, 06:57:00 AM

German at all?

Wendax · July 10, 2011, 08:07:18 AM

Unfortunately not

Allemano · July 10, 2011, 08:12:55 AM

USA?

Wendax · July 10, 2011, 08:39:28 AM

Neither

pnegyesi · July 10, 2011, 09:47:07 AM

European?

Wendax · July 10, 2011, 09:52:15 AM

Yes

woodinsight · July 10, 2011, 01:53:56 PM

My first thought would be a French car at Brooklands in the 1920s.
Perhaps a Ballot?

Wendax · July 10, 2011, 04:09:03 PM

Quote from: woodinsight on July 10, 2011, 01:53:56 PM
My first thought would be a French car at Brooklands in the 1920s.
Perhaps a Ballot?

French car: yes
Brooklands: no
1920s: yes
Ballot: no

Allan L · July 10, 2011, 05:16:56 PM

Looks like the road circuit part of Montlhery to me.

Wendax · July 11, 2011, 02:16:40 AM

Not there

woodinsight · July 12, 2011, 01:01:22 PM

Is the car a Darracq?

Wendax · July 12, 2011, 02:17:29 PM

No

woodinsight · July 15, 2011, 04:53:59 PM

La Licorne?

Wendax · July 15, 2011, 05:13:42 PM

No

woodinsight · July 15, 2011, 11:30:27 PM

Perhaps it is a Peugeot then?

Otto Puzzell · July 16, 2011, 03:29:52 AM

It's a Spag, from 1926. The picture is of an example built for a team called Bol D'Or. My German is as good as my Spanish (which is to say, not good), but I believe the event to be "Osnibichine". Engine is a 1100 cc Ruby DS engine.

Wendax · July 16, 2011, 12:19:13 PM

I agree that your German is not good.

But it is good enough to get this point, as this car is a 1926 SPAG.

Bol d'Or was the event (i.e. Golden Bowl in French), d'Osnibichine was the driver. You're right about the engine.

Tom_I · July 16, 2011, 01:00:26 PM

I thought this was a joke when I saw the title.

If you do a Google image search on "SPAG Bol d'Or", you get pages of this sort of thing!

Wendax · July 16, 2011, 03:21:33 PM

SPAGhetti BOLognese, great!

Otto Puzzell · September 03, 2011, 07:47:02 AM

Note: this puzzle was solved using Google's "Search by Image" feature:

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searchbyimage.html

I believe I have scored 30-40 points using this tool. I know other AutoPuzzles members have been using this search tool, as well. As solving puzzles in this manner is not in the spirit of AutoPuzzles, I have deleted 100 points from my total, and have banned myself from answering any other puzzles for a period of one month.

I will let the other AutoPuzzles members who have used this tool wrestle with their own consciences.

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Solved: Wendax 236 - SPAG Bol d'Or