Author Topic: SOLVED - What car #34 - 1950 Eucort Victoria Avión (Read 2656 times)

@re · « **on:** November 10, 2007, 07:21:32 AM »

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max · « **Reply #1 on:** November 13, 2007, 12:40:02 PM »

Don't recognise it, but it's how an Armstrong-Siddeley built for the US market might have looked.

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #2 on:** November 13, 2007, 01:01:50 PM »

Hi, is that a Studebaker?Perhaps a one-off or a studio by some coachbuilder...those 3 holes in the side are so Vignalish....

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #3 on:** November 13, 2007, 01:06:42 PM »

I mean, that 'bullet-nose' front is typical of the 1950' Studebaker Champion\Commander...can't find a model like that....yet...

@re · « **Reply #4 on:** November 13, 2007, 01:39:59 PM »

It is a very good point - sources did describe the car as having a 'Studebaker style front design'. But apart from that, I have not been able to find any connection between Studebaker and this car.

That said, I have only been able to find references to this particular model on two - 2 - web sites. So it's a rare animal.

grobmotorix · « **Reply #5 on:** November 13, 2007, 02:45:32 PM »

The wheels look french, just like a Renault Juvaquatre conversion or something like that...

@re · « **Reply #6 on:** November 13, 2007, 02:58:00 PM »

Not French.

D-type · « **Reply #7 on:** November 13, 2007, 03:25:01 PM »

3 holes in the side - Oldsmobile?

@re · « **Reply #8 on:** November 13, 2007, 03:28:30 PM »

Not Oldsmobile. You are still quite a way off

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #9 on:** November 14, 2007, 05:48:22 AM »

Something Hansa Lloyd-ish about that car...

@re · « **Reply #10 on:** November 14, 2007, 05:58:57 AM »

Maybe so... but no connection...

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #11 on:** November 14, 2007, 06:24:43 AM »

Asian?

@re · « **Reply #12 on:** November 14, 2007, 07:19:27 AM »

No, not Asian.

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #13 on:** November 15, 2007, 06:13:56 AM »

Eastern-block?

@re · « **Reply #14 on:** November 15, 2007, 09:56:48 AM »

Nope. From neither the far nor the near East

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #15 on:** November 16, 2007, 05:58:37 AM »

South American!

@re · « **Reply #16 on:** November 16, 2007, 07:11:53 AM »

If you live in the States, I can tell you that the place where this car comes from is a bit further east than South America... so, in that case, you might refer to its 'birthplace' as a nearer East than the far East. Am I making sense at all? Well, your response will tell me, won't it?

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #17 on:** November 17, 2007, 03:20:18 AM »

Mauritania?

@re · « **Reply #18 on:** November 17, 2007, 02:00:14 PM »

Um... let me clarify this a bit. I meant that this car comes from a place further West than Asia and Eastern Europe. There? I did not say (or mean, anyway) that it had to be an altogether different continent...

max · « **Reply #19 on:** November 18, 2007, 08:05:43 AM »

Trying the process of elimination, once again. It still looks British and the back end looks A-S 234 like, in the extreme. But Loewy contributed to Rootes Group designs around 1950. The side lights shown were possibly unique to the Humber Pullman of the period. Is this possibly a Loewy design for what became the Humber Hawk III?

@re · « **Reply #20 on:** November 18, 2007, 09:04:15 AM »

As far as I know, not related to any Humber. Haven't found anything that links this car to Raymond Loewy, either - except for its shape. But then again - there isn't much information at all available on this car on the Net.

On another note: You say that it "still looks British". Nobody have asked me if it's British yet, so I haven't said that it's not.

But it isn't

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #21 on:** December 09, 2007, 04:56:33 PM »

Finally I found it!!!
It is an Eucort Victoria Avion Prototype from 1950.
EUCORT comes from EUsebio CORtes and this model was based upon the Avion model that comes from a study of an Auto Union DKW F-9 with 3 cylindres and 990 cc.

Ray B. · « **Reply #22 on:** December 09, 2007, 05:30:19 PM »

You did it! I'm in awe... It kept me wondering a long time.
(for D-Type: the 3 portholes in the side, that was Buick, not Oldsmobile)

@re · « **Reply #23 on:** December 09, 2007, 06:20:19 PM »

Congratulations! You're quite right: The SPANISH Eucort Victoria Avión of 1950.

And it's probably no coincidence that you solved it just 25 minutes after the Emelba 7... one obscure car from a particular country often tends to be on the same web pages as other obscure cars from the same country

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #24 on:** December 10, 2007, 03:25:39 AM »

The truth is that I've got enormous problems with my internet connection and in this week I can not navigate quite at all...so there is much more time to look up among my database...I don't think I found your source because in that site there are at least 2 puzzles of mine...

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Author Topic: SOLVED - What car #34 - 1950 Eucort Victoria Avión (Read 2656 times)