Puzzle #27 - Solved! 1929 Star Luna

[Otto Puzzell]

Know what it is?

Please, respond below and let us know what make and model you think you see here.


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[Otto Puzzell]

All this time; not one guess. 

Perhaps if you could get Jeane Dixon to help you, this might get easier...

[SeaLion]

The leather bodywork could be a clue perhaps?

[Stephen M]

All this time; not one guess. 

Perhaps if you could get Jeane Dixon to help you, this might get easier...

Well...I did rule out the Dodge Aries and Ford Taurus, so it's not like NO progress has been made.

[porridgehead]

Jeane Dixon? Is that a hint?

If so, either psychic or astrological signs would be a good place to search. If not, I've just wasted an hour.

[porridgehead]

Well...I did rule out the Dodge Aries and Ford Taurus, so it's not like NO progress has been made.

I just got that. 30 seconds after my post, it hit me. 

Idjit be moi.

It ain't no Merkur Scorpio neither.

[Otto Puzzell]

Jeane Dixon? Is that a hint?

If so, either psychic or astrological signs would be a good place to search. If not, I've just wasted an hour.

You are on the right track!

[Otto Puzzell]

The leather bodywork could be a clue perhaps?

SeaLion: I overlooked this question earlier - my apologies. While the body is not leather, it is not metallic, either, which might provide a clue about the manufacturer.

[Otto Puzzell]

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[lynxd67]

well, there's been a Zodiac, there's been the RAM factory, there's been  a gemini, a Taunus (not taurus though) I've pressed a Capri Horn but that ain't it either,  I've smashed a car in to Pisces against a tree, but I have no idea what this is since I can't enlarge the photo enough. RHD which could mean anything based on its age of 1920's/30's, no idea what that is on the front wing, and the shape of the radiator has a Bugatti look. Impossible to tell from this angle photo though.

[Otto Puzzell]

Clever! 

There was a Taurus car, by the way

I believe the device on the front fender or wing is nothing more than the brace that would hold the spare tire that normally resides there.

Here is a front view of a similar car, though with a different body, of more conventional construction.

[lynxd67]

Hotchkiss?

[Otto Puzzell]

No.

[Allan L]

It's a 1929 (June) Star Luna with Weymann-type fabric body. C/N LD3845

(ask the man who has one - well a 19-year older one actually!)

[porridgehead]

Whoa! Looks like we've picked up a ringer.

[Allan L]

Whoa! Looks like we've picked up a ringer.

Sorry, don't understand 

[Otto Puzzell]

Well done, Allen. 

[porridgehead]

So Allan, do you own a Star or know somebody who does?

[Allan L]

So Allan, do you own a Star or know somebody who does?

Yes, 1910 15 h.p. If I could work out how to, I'd post a photo!

[porridgehead]

It wouldn't by any chance look something like this: 

[Allan L]

It wouldn't by any chance look something like this: 

Just like that!
It's my car at a gathering of Black Country cars and commercial vehicles at the Black Country Museum about four years ago.
Amplification for non-British readers: the Black Country is an area of the English industrial midlands including such places as Wolverhampton, Dudley, Tipton and West Bromwich.
Good quiz question would be to name two marques from each of these places!

[Arthur Dent]

Neat car Allan! Must be quite the experience to drive something like that.