Solved -PJ514- Jean Gras 1927

[Paul Jaray]

Do you know this car?
1 point for you!

[Paul Jaray]

Experts?

[targhediferro]

Is it a Front wheels drive?

[nicanary]

Amilcar ?

[4popoid]

It does resemble an Amilcar, but I think that might be a bit too obvious for AutoPuzzles.  I understand that the small French manufacturer Jean Gras made one racing car, and, although I can't find any photographs of it, the badge on the puzzle car photo looks about right.  Therefore, I'm going to go out on a very long limb, and say that the puzzle car is a: Jean Gras from about 1925.

[Paul Jaray]

Sorry for the late replies...I just had to format my PC today and it's a long way to restore all my precious settings.
Fortunately I was not forced to do that and I had all the time to back-up everything.

[Paul Jaray]

It is a Jean Gras from 1927!
You see the badge in my pic? And it looks like the Jean Gras' one?
I've been able (quite easily) to find just 1 car online and that's the result comparing the 2 badges...
In any case, you are right, it is the 1927 model!
Point for you.

[Paul Jaray]

4popoid, I must confess I had some doubts about your guess...
You wrote Amilcar is too obvious and since Jean Gras made a racing car you guessed that.
Now, if you type "Jean Gras" in Google, you'll find the white torpedo and the puzzle car.
Further more, the badges are not quite the same...unless you have other pics showing a different badge.
...but it's a game and I apologize for beeing too suspicious.
I hope everybody will contribute to keep this place clean!

[4popoid]

Perhaps I wasn't too clear in my methods.  I did find the same Jean Gras blue oval badge that you show, which I compared to an Amilcar badge showing that their shapes are not at all similar.  This indicated to me that the puzzle car was NOT an Amilcar, it did not indicate that the puzzle car WAS a Jean Gras, as the badge in the picture is unreadable.  I then looked at a number of other cars with the distinctive radiator housing of the puzzle car.  None of the cars that I examined had a similar oval shaped, badge. like the car in the picture.  Therefore, because I could not locate a picture of a car similar to the one in the picture, with a similar shaped badge, nor could I locate a picture of the Jean Gras racing car (I did not see the puzzle picture on Google), and because the enlarged puzzle picture showed the puzzle car to have a badge of the same general SHAPE as the Jean Gras sample, I GUESSED (as I said) that the puzzle car MIGHT be the Jean Gras.

I'm sorry that you find my guess suspicious, and you may withdraw my point, if you choose, as that is your prerogative, but, as to my methods, my conscious is clear that I have strictly followed the rules.   

[Paul Jaray]

I've been misunderstood... my 1st reply after your guess was a gentle way to have an explanation, not needed of course, but appreciated for the reasons I wrote.
I think I was waiting for a reply of some sort.
I expressed elsewere my doubts and I've been assured that I can be wrong and I felt it was correct and appropriate to tell you I had some doubts for those reasons (that are ...reasonable... after all!).
My apologizes were in that direction: I was suspicious because I (but not only me) am quite disappointed by cheaters and sometimes this can make me jump to some conclusions with the wrong guy, like you.
The point is yours, and I hope I explained myself better.