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Re: Classical Gasoline #1
« Reply #25 on: September 13, 2008, 07:03:13 PM »
Car #4 is Bill Fredric's Valkyrie Jet Car. And then it doesn't take much imagination to guess which music piece that goes with it :)

Music piece #4 is the Ride of the Valkyries by German master composer Richard Wagner.
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Re: Classical Gasoline #1
« Reply #26 on: September 13, 2008, 08:15:16 PM »
I am a hobby musician myself, I play the trumpet (a bit) and I sing quite a lot. I played in a brass band when I was little - so I read sheet music. Which means it didn't take me long to find out how music piece #1 goes... and it's quite famous, I just couldn't find out which piece it was. A colleague of mine said he thought it must be from an opera, and he was right - I've just not managed to find out which. Until I realised that car #1 was a 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Seville... then things started to dawn on me.

Music piece #1 is a page from Gioachino Rossini's "The Barber of Seville". Of course...
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Re: Classical Gasoline #1
« Reply #27 on: September 14, 2008, 07:46:43 AM »
Yep, and yep.
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Re: Classical Gasoline #1
« Reply #28 on: September 14, 2008, 08:44:20 AM »
One car remains to be identified - should be easy with the information provided herein.
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Re: Classical Gasoline #1
« Reply #29 on: September 14, 2008, 09:28:28 AM »
To come to the end of this : There was a Fench brand named "Gladiator" founded by A. Darracq. Later the company's name changed beside others to "Clement-Gladiator".
Unfortunately I can't find any car that resembles car #3..  ???
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Re: Classical Gasoline #1
« Reply #30 on: September 14, 2008, 09:32:43 AM »
To come to the end of this : There was a Fench brand from named "Gladiator" founded by A. Darracq,. Later the company's name changed beside others to "Clement-Gladiator".
Unfortunately I can't find any car that resembles car#3  ???
To add to that, it appears to be at a British motor show, my guess would be that it's a different car with a Gladiator model designation, although I can't find anything that resembles it either...

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Re: Classical Gasoline #1
« Reply #31 on: September 14, 2008, 11:51:10 AM »
Keep after it, boys!
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Re: Classical Gasoline #1
« Reply #32 on: September 25, 2008, 03:35:30 AM »
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Re: Classical Gasoline #1
« Reply #33 on: October 16, 2008, 03:56:34 AM »
Would be fine to get some hints/help!  ;)

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Re: Classical Gasoline #1
« Reply #34 on: October 16, 2008, 04:01:16 AM »
Well, you have the name of the car, and a picture of the car. All that remains is to find who built it. Some possible ID's have already been suggested and declared incorrect.

I found the picture on the net - judicious Googling should solve it.
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Re: Classical Gasoline #1
« Reply #35 on: October 16, 2008, 08:07:06 AM »
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Re: Classical Gasoline #1
« Reply #36 on: October 16, 2008, 08:15:01 AM »
No relation with car #3 but I am curious to know, by the way:  what happened to the tailfins of this Eldorado Seville?
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Re: Classical Gasoline #1
« Reply #37 on: October 16, 2008, 12:51:13 PM »


I found the picture on the net - judicious Googling should solve it.

It's true I googled Gladiator car....the 2nd result: November 1913: An aluminium 12 HP Gladiator car on show at Olympia

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Re: Classical Gasoline #1
« Reply #38 on: October 17, 2008, 05:01:27 AM »
No relation with car #3 but I am curious to know, by the way:  what happened to the tailfins of this Eldorado Seville?

I-dunno-d'oh!
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Re: Classical Gasoline #1
« Reply #39 on: October 17, 2008, 05:04:00 AM »
And another one down, another one down, another one bites the dust - hey!

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Allemano   4   +   1
Dhoffman   2   +     1
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Re: Classical Gasoline #1
« Reply #40 on: October 17, 2008, 05:51:02 AM »
It's true I googled Gladiator car....the 2nd result: November 1913: An aluminium 12 HP Gladiator car on show at Olympia

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Re: Classical Gasoline #1
« Reply #41 on: October 17, 2008, 05:51:41 AM »
No relation with car #3 but I am curious to know, by the way:  what happened to the tailfins of this Eldorado Seville?

I guess the Cadillac has visited the Barber of Seville?

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Re: Classical Gas #1 Solved by Allemano, Dhoffman, @re & Paul Jaray
« Reply #42 on: October 17, 2008, 06:10:30 AM »
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