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Re: Whaddyacallit #292 - Solved! Alvis TA 14 with body by F.J. Bidée
« Reply #25 on: July 06, 2009, 02:47:33 PM »
Welcome aboard, Charlotte! I would also like to know anything about your overgrandfather's cars, if possible :)
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Re: Whaddyacallit #292 - Solved! Alvis TA 14 with body by F.J. Bidée
« Reply #26 on: July 06, 2009, 02:59:51 PM »
Quote from: charlotte on July 05, 2009, 05:42:26 PM
...he was italian so maybe som parts of the car where italian idk.. :-X
I think that design may have influenced (or been influenced by) other specials of that era:
« Last Edit: February 17, 2020, 03:36:14 PM by Wendax »
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Re: Whaddyacallit #292 - Solved! Alvis TA 14 with body by F.J. Bidée
« Reply #27 on: July 07, 2009, 08:30:09 AM »
I happen to find a picture of this car in "Classic and Sportscar"  from June 1995, page 90. The car has the same shape, the same license plate, but also heavy bumpers, a 'real', curved split windscreen, outside door handles and chrome stoneguards on the rear wings. There's another pic of an Alvis 14 sports with F.J. Bidée body at 1948 Brussels show (the car with a complete cocktail cabinet in its door...).
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Re: Whaddyacallit #292
« Reply #28 on: July 11, 2009, 11:54:05 AM »
Quote from: faksta on April 01, 2009, 06:59:45 AM
Seems to be the car that ran 1949 Le Mans 24h race with a Belgian team of Louis Eggen and Egon Kraft de la Saulx. 1892cc, 4 cyl. ret. after 6 laps.

I guess it'n not the same car, as I have finally found a tiny shot of it at Le Mans, and that one looks way different. Although it might have been rebodied.
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Re: Whaddyacallit #292 - Solved! Alvis TA 14 with body by F.J. Bidée
« Reply #29 on: July 18, 2011, 01:19:24 PM »
Another shot in road-going guise.
This car dates from 1946 and is probably the first of the F.J Bidée bodied cars. It seems 54 chassis were sent to Belgium to be bodied and most of them ended up with Bidée. Does anyone have any evidence of other Belgian Alvis coachwork??
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Solved - NEH 5180: Alvis TA14 by F.J. Bidee - 1948
« Reply #30 on: August 14, 2017, 04:40:03 AM »
What's this, by whom, from when - for 1 point?:

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Re: NEH 5180
« Reply #31 on: August 14, 2017, 07:29:43 AM »
It's a vehicle.  If a remember correctly it's an Alvis (it always is when I am not sure)

Was an after war Le Mans racer, albeit not very successful.

So here is may answer:  Alvis TA 14
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Re: NEH 5180
« Reply #32 on: August 14, 2017, 09:24:00 AM »
It is an Alvis TA 14, yes, so I'll lock it for you until your next reply to answer the other two questions..
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Re: NEH 5180
« Reply #33 on: August 14, 2017, 10:30:57 AM »
Body:  FJ Bidee
Raced between 48 and 49 - so build from 1948.
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Re: NEH 5180
« Reply #34 on: August 14, 2017, 11:14:17 AM »
Quote from: longtom on August 14, 2017, 10:30:57 AM
Body:  FJ Bidee
Raced between 48 and 49 - so build from 1948.

That's it, yes so another point is yours.
Well done.
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Re: Whaddyacallit #292 - Solved! Alvis TA 14 with body by F.J. Bidée
« Reply #35 on: February 17, 2020, 03:38:09 PM »
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