What is this?
1 point for you!
It may be known with 3 different names.
Each one of them will earn you a temporary lock to finish it but only all 3 of them will give you a point
(That's just to avoid lucky random guesses...only if you know the car, you'll find all 3 of them)
Open to all of you!
Austin J40 Pedal Car
Not an Austin and not a pedal car. Not called J40.
The rest is correct.
Made in Europe ?
Yes.
Italian ?
Yes!
Is it a car for children or for adults ?
A real car. Like the Volugrafo or the Volpe.
Can the information be found online ?
Yes, but it won't be that easy ;)
was this little car a one-off?
This car was produced by a company.
This is the only pic I ever find of it but it shows the prototype. There is another pic of the 'final' version that is rather different, but that too remained a one-off.
This name can be found in some literature too, but not all sources mention it.
Could it be a BERTONI?
Not Bertoni.
A similar one was the Sicilian PULCINO also known as ARTESI, family name of its creator.
All good guesses, but not one of those.
Powered by a motorcycle engine ?
As you require 3 names related between let me propose: PARVA-MOTO FONGRI-FRATELLI GRIGNANI from Torino
Quote from: oko94 on February 12, 2016, 02:26:33 AM
Powered by a motorcycle engine ?
I have all the details of it but it's not reported if it's from a motorcycle.
Quote from: luisps on February 12, 2016, 02:38:13 AM
As you require 3 names related between let me propose: PARVA-MOTO FONGRI-FRATELLI GRIGNANI from Torino
Another good guess, but it's not.
The 3 names are required just to avoid blind & lucky guesses. If you'll find one of them, you'll earn a lock to prove you find the car and it was not just a guess. Only the 3 names will give you the point but once there, it will be easy ;)
Those 3 names are: an acronym, builder's name and model's name.
They all can be found in the full name of this company, the latter being the city...
This is the final prototype:
This one is hard but not impossible.
This maker is not reported in books or magazines but if you looked for obscure Italian makers, you probably found out a paper with a bigger list where this name appears.
Before or afther 1950?
The prototype is from 1947 and the final version from 1949.
1949 is the year reported in one on-line source (but not too easy to find).
What about C.A.B.I. Cattaneo Milano?
That is a very good guess, in fact there was a small car (600cc) built around 1938 by him...but puzzle car it's not Cattaneo's and it's not from Milan.
The only alternative that I found is SVA - Società Valdostana Costruzione Motori - Aosta
Not SVA and not Aosta.
My final guess: B.G.M. Brevetti Giuseppe Marotta L'Aquia
Quote from: luisps on August 26, 2016, 07:24:49 PM
My final guess: B.G.M. Brevetti Giuseppe Marotta L'Aquia
Very good!!
You found the car, it's builder and the name!
There is only one slight mistake in the name...
This is exactly the only information that I've found in the list of the "Senato della Republica N.1628"
I know...there is just a single letter missing.
Point is yours anyway...this was not easy!
Thank you but I'm unable to understand what are you looking for...
Where was it built?
Sorry! I lost one l in the way... L'Aquila is the vilage.
That's it!
'L'Aquila' microcar to be built by B.G.M., Brevetti Giuseppe Marotta.
1 point for you!
Thank you Paul. Do you've any technical information of the mechanics of these microcars?
Single cylinder, 2-stroke, 350cc, air cooled, 50 km/h.
name of the car, where it comes from and who built it
Experts!
This is the L.Aquila microcar 1947-49?
B.G.M. (BREVETTI GIUSEPPE MAROTA) prototype of 1947
yes this is the minicar called Aquila from a town named L'Aquila (1947)! one point for kwgibbs
Quote from: luisps on February 24, 2020, 10:24:56 AM
B.G.M. (BREVETTI GIUSEPPE MAROTA) prototype of 1947
Giuseppe Marota is the name of his creator: I'll give a point to you too
https://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2016-45/pj-710/25/
Merged.
Thanks! Thorax for the point.Its a shame not much information about.
from the magazine L'Automobile 1947:
Another picture
From the Autopuzzles Name Chain thread, posted by Paul Jaray
It's not the same car though; its wing (mudguard) treatment is completely different, with straight-through sides..
Quote from: Oguerrerob on February 28, 2020, 03:25:44 PM
Another picture
From the Autopuzzles Name Chain thread, posted by Paul Jaray
Quote from: Carnut on February 28, 2020, 04:25:12 PM
It's not the same car though; its wing (mudguard) treatment is completely different, with straight-through sides..
See Paul Jaray's comments; that is the final prototype version:
OK, I see.