I had to photoshop a couple of logos in preparation for posting this one. It looks easy, but isn’t… and I imagine my readers will suffer a collective slap to their own foreheads when the answer is revealed, we’ll see.
I saw this car at a local show here in the Puget Sound area and I spent a good 45 minutes photographing it and chatting with the owner. Wonderful machine, and a legendary marque.
I don’t know if Roger Los still haunts this site but I’ll have to disqualify him from the guessing game as I stumbled into him at this very show… I suspect he remembers this car and knows what it is. Roger you’ll have to draw pleasure from the torments of others here. 😉
For the rest of you, can you name this car?
Hint: Interior shot (seat belts are a recent add-on!)
No idea. Might be a 1930s Bentley but that’s a wild guess…..
I’ll guess a Ford Prefect.
Wiggy, heh- I thought it could be a Ford too but I suspect Chuck has angled the photo to hide the length of the bonnet. He’s a devious bugger, you know…
It also appears that the left-side passenger window’s been….*fotographically fettled with*, to hide the possible fact it’s a right hooker…but, hey, I’ve been wrong, this year already!
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It’s got mocknichtssticks….:)
The only photo manipulation done was on the spare wheel cover, and just above the lic. plate. Both to remove badges/logos, etc.
It is NOT a Ford, nor a Bentley.
Now that I can see the front end a bit things are a bit easier. So the bonnet is long (as I suspected). Clearly not a Bentley though but almost certainly British from the 1940s. Could be a Wolseley or an Armstrong-Siddeley (if I was better informed about interiors it would be breeze) but I don’t thinks so. Maybe an MG Y type…?
It is not British.
This company is famous for sports cars and GTs. This car was an unusual departure from the norm for them from 1933 to 1936.
It was powered by a flathead V-4.
Lancia?
I love how they’ve tastefully installed 3-point seat belts in it! Excellent!
Bingo! It is a Lancia Augusta.
Rats! I wasn’t even close. Lancia is one of my favourite marques, too.
And I hate the wretched modern seatbelts (wanders off muttering darkly…)
Well, MD: I’ve seen the results of someone intercepting an old car’s metal dashboard, because they, too, hate seat belts. I’ll RARELY ever ride in anything that doesn’t have’m….and my DKW will get’m too!
There are some things that cant be ‘unseen.’