GTC #35 SOLVED: Voisin Biscooter

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DHoffmann

September 14, 2008, 01:30:09 AM Last Edit: April 18, 2015, 03:07:36 AM by DHoffmann
Seen this one before? Post if you have...

1 point for the correct answer.

Good luck!

DHoffmann

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September 20, 2008, 03:01:58 PM
Experts?

Ray B.

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September 20, 2008, 04:05:31 PM Last Edit: September 20, 2008, 04:11:25 PM by Ray B.
I'd say the Voisin Biscooter 125cm3 two-seater, and I checked: amazingly, this is the first time someone chooses it for a puzzle.
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DHoffmann

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September 20, 2008, 09:49:32 PM
Quote from: Ray B. on September 20, 2008, 04:05:31 PM
I'd say the Voisin Biscooter 125cm3 two-seater, and I checked: amazingly, this is the first time someone chooses it for a puzzle.
Indeed it is, I was surprised too. I hoped that a self taken image from a magazine would throw people off but nope.  ;D

ftg3plus4

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March 17, 2009, 09:14:40 PM
I'm pretty sure it's spelled "Biscuter."
"May I submit 'Utopian Turtletop'? Do not trouble to answer unless you like it."
-- Marianne Moore, suggesting a name for what would become the Edsel

Otto Puzzell

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March 18, 2009, 04:01:51 AM
Quote from: Ray B. on September 20, 2008, 04:05:31 PM
I'd say the Voisin Biscooter 125cm3 two-seater, and I checked: amazingly, this is the first time someone chooses it for a puzzle.

Interesting phenomenon, that. From time to time, I've decided to not post a certain car, because I'm sure it's already been puzzle fodder, only to learn it was either on another forum, or looked familiar because I had found and saved a picture in the past that I never got around to posting.
You wanna be the man, you gotta Name That Car!

Ray B.

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March 18, 2009, 04:56:23 AM
Quote from: ftg3plus4 on March 17, 2009, 09:14:40 PM
I'm pretty sure it's spelled "Biscuter."
For a moment you had me doubting, but no. The Biscuter was the spanish Autonacional model produced 1954-58 (picture below).
This one is the 125 version showed at the 1950 french Salon du Cycle et de la Moto. Scoter is "correct" french spelling, as scuter is the spanish spelling.
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ftg3plus4

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March 18, 2009, 08:34:45 AM Last Edit: April 27, 2018, 03:31:19 PM by ftg3plus4
Oh... I thought this was the same car as the Biscuter. I didn't know there was both a Biscuter and a Biscooter. That's just downright confusing!
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-- Marianne Moore, suggesting a name for what would become the Edsel

Ray B.

#8
March 18, 2009, 09:29:24 AM
No, this basically the same car. The Biscooter just predates the Biscuter.
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Otto Puzzell

#9
March 18, 2009, 11:31:48 AM
Quote from: Ray B. on March 18, 2009, 09:29:24 AM
No, this basically the same car. The Biscooter just predates the Biscuter.

Precedes it in the automotive lexicon, too.   :D
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ftg3plus4

#10
March 18, 2009, 12:38:10 PM
So they went from a name that evokes "scooter" to one that evokes "biscuit."
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-- Marianne Moore, suggesting a name for what would become the Edsel

ImpishGrin

#11
March 18, 2009, 01:12:10 PM
Quote from: ftg3plus4 on March 18, 2009, 12:38:10 PM
So they went from a name that evokes "scooter" to one that evokes "biscuit."

Yes, because they went from France to Spain :)

I agree, I also always think about biscuit when I see the name Biscúter. One of the books I have even desribes it as Biscuiter :D
It's not denial, I'm just very selective about the reality I accept.

Wendax

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March 25, 2013, 10:24:47 AM
Two leaflets:

grobmotorix

#13
April 07, 2018, 06:17:05 PM
A 1950 technical drawing with a slightly different front design:
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