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Solved: Name That Make #6 - 1931 Datson
« on: May 08, 2009, 05:16:41 PM »
Not an obscure make by any means, but there's a bit of a twist to this one.
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Re: Name That Make #6
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2009, 05:12:49 PM »
Expert time...
"May I submit 'Utopian Turtletop'? Do not trouble to answer unless you like it."
-- Marianne Moore, suggesting a name for what would become the Edsel

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Re: Name That Make #6
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2009, 04:58:22 AM »
I think it could be a Datson Type 10 Phaeton from 1931, the possible twist being the switch to the Datsun name in 1932 for the type 11.

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Re: Name That Make #6
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2009, 08:27:27 AM »
That's it! The "Datson" name was only used for this one year.
"May I submit 'Utopian Turtletop'? Do not trouble to answer unless you like it."
-- Marianne Moore, suggesting a name for what would become the Edsel