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July Puzzle #14 - Solved! 1924 Donnet-Zedel Type G
« on: July 22, 2006, 07:01:17 AM »
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Re: July Puzzle #14
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2006, 10:19:31 AM »
Nice motometer! I'm assuming it's European, since there's a futbol in the background :D. And it looks vaguely familiar. Let me do some digging in the Stephen M archives...
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Re: July Puzzle #14
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2006, 04:29:28 PM »
It is Europen.

Good luck; we're all counting on you.
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Re: July Puzzle #14
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2006, 10:43:21 PM »
Looks rather like a pre war citroen except the for the grill is a bit too square.
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Re: July Puzzle #14
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2006, 02:33:19 AM »
Not a Citroen.
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Re: July Puzzle #14
« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2006, 02:13:03 PM »
Nothing in the archives. Not sure why it looks familiar. Is it a Zborowski-era Bugatti perhaps? Grill doesn't have the right shape, though...
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Re: July Puzzle #14
« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2006, 03:18:47 PM »
Not a Bugatti
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Re: July Puzzle #14
« Reply #7 on: September 03, 2006, 09:10:47 AM »
The trail goes cold.
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Re: July Puzzle #14
« Reply #8 on: September 16, 2006, 04:51:33 AM »
This marque was founded in 1924, when an industrialist who made his fortune in WWI supplying the aircraft industry bought an existing car builder. This model was introduced soon thereafter. The industrialist's name and the car builder's name were hyphenated for 4 years; the brand then reverted to its previous name before folding altogether in the 1930's. The ex-aircraft factory where it was built was purchased by a much better-know marque that lasted well into the post-WWII era. 

This model sold quite well, making this one of the top 5 brands in it's home country in the still-crowded pre-depression market.
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Re: July Puzzle #14
« Reply #9 on: September 19, 2006, 11:51:10 AM »
The setting for the picture looks like Germany or Switzerland.....
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Re: July Puzzle #14
« Reply #10 on: September 19, 2006, 12:01:55 PM »
Perhaps if the car were painted blue...
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Re: July Puzzle #14
« Reply #11 on: September 19, 2006, 12:57:03 PM »
I KNEW it looked familiar. It's a Donnet Zedel, just like the one we had at our scuba-themed wedding:



Don't tell my wife I'd already forgotten  :-[
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Re: July Puzzle #14
« Reply #12 on: September 19, 2006, 01:13:01 PM »
Nice.  8)
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Re: July Puzzle #14
« Reply #13 on: September 19, 2006, 02:16:30 PM »
Well done!
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Re: July Puzzle #14
« Reply #14 on: September 19, 2006, 02:21:34 PM »
Here is the site at which I found the pics. It tells a little bit about the restoration, and it's use as a 'wedding car'.

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Re: July Puzzle #14 - Solved! 1925 Donnet-Zedel
« Reply #15 on: September 19, 2006, 03:09:49 PM »
Coinkydink?

I think not!  :)

Something tells me these are one and the same car.

Of course, my ususal dislaimer applies: I could be wrong.

Any way you look at it, it's a good get. Well done Stephen M.
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Re: July Puzzle #14 - Solved! 1925 Donnet-Zedel
« Reply #16 on: September 19, 2006, 04:12:03 PM »
Looks to be the same car - check the plates on the linked page, and on SM's pic.  :)
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Re: July Puzzle #14 - Solved! 1925 Donnet-Zedel
« Reply #17 on: September 19, 2006, 05:31:05 PM »
Tis indeed the same car.

The wedding pic I put up was simply the most interesting of many "action" photos on the site KU gave. The car is apparently for hire for special days.

I'm still wondering what the deal with the scuba fins is.
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Re: July Puzzle #14 - Solved! 1925 Donnet-Zedel
« Reply #18 on: July 26, 2013, 03:27:24 PM »
The full name should be 1924 Donnet-Zedel Type G.  ;)
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