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Re: Name That Car
Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2020 12:54 pm
by felixkk
Re: Name That Car
Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2020 1:06 pm
by Dion
Stutz. Amazing car. American style extraordinaire!
Re: Name That Car
Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2020 1:58 pm
by felixkk
From Wiki, citing auto motor und sport:
Der Stutz bewegt sich durch den dichten Stadtverkehr wie ein alter Starrachsen-Pontiac, dessen Kofferraum zur Komfortverbesserung mit Beton ausgegossen wurde: weich wie Lenor-Wäsche, schaukelnd wie ein Karussellpferd, agil wie ein Öltanker.
The Stutz moves through the dense city traffic like an old rigid axled Pontiac, the trunk of which was filled with concrete to improve comfort: soft like Lenor laundry, rocking like a carousel horse, agile like an oil tanker.
Re: Name That Car
Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2020 4:08 pm
by RockyUSA
What a great description!
Only the Germans could come up with such prose!
Rocky
(...maybe one or two of the Aussies... but it wouldn’t be in German...)
Re: Name That Car
Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2020 5:14 pm
by felixkk
You can‘t quite tell what is critique and what is compliment...
Re: Name That Car
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2020 1:57 am
by slotcarone
These Stutz cars were built from Pontiac Grand Prix's. Many were celebrity owned. Elvis had one.
Re: Name That Car
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 4:12 pm
by felixkk
Wots dis?
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Re: Name That Car
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 4:17 pm
by Grant
felixkk wrote:Wots dis?
I dun no .. but it is really lovely Felix
Re: Name That Car
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 5:24 pm
by JamesE
felixkk wrote:Wots dis?
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Ghia 450 SS. Lovely.
Re: Name That Car
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 6:44 pm
by felixkk
Indeed! We have one attending our Hybrid Meet in a week and a half:
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Re: Name That Car
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 11:05 pm
by Kevin Birch
That is gorgeous, the front reminds me of the first series Toyota Celica, perhaps that's where they got some styling cues
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Re: Name That Car
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 11:12 pm
by Barrie
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Re: Name That Car
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2020 6:35 am
by JamesE
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Looks like a Lanchester 14. Never previously seen a convertible, though, and to be honest I think I was happier that way.
Re: Name That Car
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2020 9:35 am
by Barrie
Steady on James, that’s someone’s baby!
It’s a tale of marque identity syndrome. At the time Daimler and Lanchester were essentially the same company. The chap driving it was a Lanchester man who wanted a Lanchester version of the Daimler Conquest Century New Drophead Coupe. (What a moniker!)
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This one.
He didn’t let the fact that one was never made get in his way so he made his own.
I love that sort of eccentricity.
Re: Name That Car
Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2020 2:39 am
by Roh