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Title: Monty239 - Solved: 1934 Sumida/Isuzu Type 93 4-wheel passenger car
Post by: el_monty on November 07, 2017, 10:49:11 AM
Fellow Autopuzzlers, for a point please tell me the name and year of this car. Sorry for the low-quality pic.

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Title: Re: Monty239
Post by: Skut on November 08, 2017, 01:34:47 AM
Packard?
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Post by: el_monty on November 08, 2017, 03:10:09 AM
Not Packard.
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Post by: Skut on November 08, 2017, 01:09:13 PM
Graham?
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Post by: el_monty on November 08, 2017, 01:20:53 PM
Not Graham.
Title: Re: Monty239
Post by: el_monty on November 23, 2017, 02:58:18 AM
Up to the Experts.
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Post by: el_monty on November 23, 2017, 03:29:40 AM
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Post by: FrontMan on November 23, 2017, 03:48:45 AM
Hudson Terraplane, 1932.
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Post by: el_monty on November 23, 2017, 05:08:30 AM
Not a Hudson. The year is not far.
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Post by: FrontMan on November 23, 2017, 06:37:14 AM
Essex.
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Post by: el_monty on November 23, 2017, 06:38:25 AM
Not Essex.
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Post by: jimjarron on November 23, 2017, 07:01:52 AM
1933 Holden bodied Chevrolet?
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Post by: el_monty on November 23, 2017, 07:45:18 AM
No connection to GM, but 1933 is even closer to the correct year.
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Post by: D-type on November 23, 2017, 09:41:19 AM
Is it a 1935 American cart?
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Post by: el_monty on November 23, 2017, 09:58:03 AM
It's a good thing you asked, because it's not American. The year is 1934.
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Post by: kwgibbs on November 23, 2017, 12:18:10 PM
French?
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Post by: el_monty on November 23, 2017, 01:38:22 PM
Not French.
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Post by: Fёdor on November 23, 2017, 02:01:50 PM

 made in Europe
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Post by: el_monty on November 23, 2017, 02:11:42 PM
It's not European.
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Post by: Fёdor on November 23, 2017, 02:16:30 PM

 Sumida 93 1934
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Post by: kwgibbs on November 23, 2017, 03:23:06 PM
Australian?
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Post by: D-type on November 23, 2017, 04:12:28 PM
A Holden bodied Hupmobile?
Title: Re: Monty239
Post by: el_monty on November 24, 2017, 03:34:29 AM
Fëdor wins the point! It is the Japanese Sumida (or Isuzu, since by that point the marque name supposedly had already been changed) Type 93 4-wheel passenger car (there were 6-wheel versions too, and also armored military vehicles based on the same chassis), used by military officials of the Japanese army.
I have found a somewhat clearer version of the same picture, I post it below. Also, there are a couple of other, better pictures floating online of cars that seem to be the same model or very very similar, but there is no definite identification of them as far as I know. They appeared for sale (the pictures, not the cars!) on the Japanese Yahoo Auctions site a couple of years ago. The seller identified the first as a Kurogane (but it looks very close to the Sumida Type 93 of the puzzle) and the second as a Sumida.