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Title: Solved - MJW #102 - Colucci VW 1947/51
Post by: woodinsight on November 08, 2010, 03:34:40 PM
One point for what this car was based on and who made it
Title: Re: MJW #102
Post by: Iluvatar on November 09, 2010, 07:25:33 AM
It looks very similar to Cisitalia 202, but ...
Maybe a french car or a Jaguar.
Title: Re: MJW #102
Post by: woodinsight on November 09, 2010, 09:18:06 AM
Please choose one!
Title: Re: MJW #102
Post by: Iluvatar on November 09, 2010, 11:05:33 AM
 :-[Jaguar!
Title: Re: MJW #102
Post by: woodinsight on November 09, 2010, 12:10:19 PM
Not that one!
Title: Re: MJW #102
Post by: Michiel Mobiel on November 15, 2010, 05:40:30 AM
Italmeccanica by Stabilimenti Farina?
Title: Re: MJW #102
Post by: woodinsight on November 15, 2010, 10:25:04 AM
It's not that but the body (I think) is copied from a Stabilimenti Farina design
Title: Re: MJW #102
Post by: Iluvatar on November 15, 2010, 12:26:29 PM
Is it French?
Title: Re: MJW #102
Post by: woodinsight on November 15, 2010, 12:40:14 PM
Yes it is!
Title: Re: MJW #102
Post by: Iluvatar on November 15, 2010, 03:52:49 PM
 :-\ Renaul 4CV??? ???
Title: Re: MJW #102
Post by: woodinsight on November 15, 2010, 03:58:46 PM
No - the car is not based on a French chassis but was constructed in France by a man who also built a Formula Junior and another sports racer.
Title: Re: MJW #102
Post by: Iluvatar on November 15, 2010, 04:14:07 PM
Dal Bo?
Title: Re: MJW #102
Post by: woodinsight on November 15, 2010, 04:18:24 PM
Not Dal Bo
Title: Re: MJW #102
Post by: woodinsight on November 18, 2010, 12:00:54 PM
Experts?
Title: Re: MJW #102
Post by: franck.kegelart on November 19, 2010, 10:06:09 AM
It is a Volkswagen-based car built in 1947/1948 - but the pic shows the later-modified car, in ca 1951 - by the frenchman Vincent Colucci - frenchman of italian origin.
Title: Re: MJW #102
Post by: DeAutogids on November 19, 2010, 10:07:36 AM
With the steering on that side?
Title: Re: MJW #102
Post by: woodinsight on November 19, 2010, 10:39:50 AM
Very well done Franck - I thought this might last a bit longer.
It was built by Vincent Colucci at Cap d'Ail, France near the Italian border.
The body, as I mentioned earlier, appears to be a copy of the Stab. Farina Cisitalia 202 design.

DeAutogids - I suggest that as the car was built by a man of Italian origin very close to the Italian border, it was natural that it may have had right-hand steering in common with many Italian cars of that period.
Title: Re: Solved - MJW #102 - Colucci VW 1947/51
Post by: Paul Jaray on December 16, 2010, 07:37:11 AM
@ woodinsight: can you post the unmodified picture? I can't find any info on the web...
Title: Re: Solved - MJW #102 - Colucci VW 1947/51
Post by: woodinsight on December 16, 2010, 08:26:59 AM
with pleasure
Title: Re: Solved - MJW #102 - Colucci VW 1947/51
Post by: Paul Jaray on December 16, 2010, 08:56:10 AM
Grazie 1000!