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GG-142 1962 mock-up of Voisin L'isotherme
« on: April 23, 2010, 04:33:55 PM »
Which way is forward?

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Re: GG-142
« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2010, 04:36:32 PM »
jeepers!

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Re: GG-142
« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2010, 08:50:18 AM »
1 up..

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Re: GG-142
« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2010, 12:05:22 PM »
Those wheels look 2cv like?

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Re: GG-142
« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2010, 12:20:42 PM »
Which way is forward?
Uh....to the left? ;D

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Re: GG-142
« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2010, 12:34:33 PM »
Those wheels look 2cv like?

They very well could be just that, but I have no info on the mechanicals of this car

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Re: GG-142
« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2010, 06:09:27 PM »
Which way is forward?
Uh....to the left? ;D

Not necessarily - it could be a car where everyone faces backwards (SPV from Captain Scarlet....)

Only joking as I don't have a clue....
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Re: GG-142
« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2010, 03:07:22 PM »
Let's see what the pro's can make of this

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Re: GG-142
« Reply #8 on: May 25, 2010, 01:14:11 AM »
Is there a connection to any of the Mohs creations?
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Re: GG-142
« Reply #9 on: May 25, 2010, 04:07:32 AM »
No relation there..

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Re: GG-142
« Reply #10 on: May 25, 2010, 04:12:20 AM »
a car for an exhibition or for some resort?

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Re: GG-142
« Reply #11 on: May 25, 2010, 04:18:57 AM »
No, it was designed with a real purpose in mind. Don't think it ever got beyond the stage on this photo, though. The name of the man behind this thing should be well known to any expert or pro autopuzzler.

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Re: GG-142
« Reply #12 on: May 25, 2010, 04:42:10 AM »
is it from France?

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Re: GG-142
« Reply #13 on: May 25, 2010, 05:44:01 AM »
Oui, tres bien!

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Re: GG-142
« Reply #14 on: May 25, 2010, 10:54:53 AM »
Voisin Isotherme

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Re: GG-142
« Reply #15 on: May 25, 2010, 12:00:43 PM »
Well done!

It's a 1962 mock-up of L'isotherme

a bit more info:

By 1938 Voisin Automobiles had practically ceased to exist. However, at that time Paul Louis Weller, managing director of the Gnome-Rhône aircraft engine company, offered Gabriel Voisin, age of 58, a chance to turn the clock back to 1906 and to dedicate himself to do what he had always liked best: research and invention without any interference or managerial burdens. The creative laboratory where this all should take place was named ‘l’Aéroméchanique’. A workshop of a mere 8 people, each from different professional backgrounds, working on every level from conception to manufacture, assembly and trials. Their location: Gabriel Voisin’s home residence at 72 Boulevard Exelmans in Paris. After the war Gnome-Rhone and the Société Voisin were incorporated by a newly formed National Conglomerate, duly named SNECMA. It was in those years that Voisin worked hard on his Biscooter, but due to continuing losses, SNECMA dropped the Voisin division and the brand name. Gabriel Voisin returned to the banks of the Saône, some 60 km. upstream from his birth place, where he worked on numerous projects, such as the ‘Isotherme’ a remarkable car design for use in hot climates, featuring air circulation between two roof surfaces and upward sliding doors.