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SOLVED: Djetset #315 - Zevaco cycle car
« on: February 03, 2010, 05:47:34 PM »
Any thoughts as to what this might be?
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Re: Djetset #315
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2010, 07:45:06 AM »
Up, up, up...
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Re: Djetset #315
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2010, 10:48:03 AM »
Hmm... French?
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Re: Djetset #315
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2010, 11:26:11 AM »
Hmm, oui.
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Re: Djetset #315
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2010, 11:58:22 AM »
One of their short-lived cyclecar makes of about the early '20s, or was this a longer-lived make?
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Re: Djetset #315
« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2010, 12:01:54 PM »
One of the shorter-lived makes.
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Re: Djetset #315
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2010, 12:17:54 PM »
Well, as always, I hate to have to do this, but... make name starting with a letter from A to L?
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Re: Djetset #315
« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2010, 12:46:15 PM »
No, the other end of the scale!
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Re: Djetset #315
« Reply #8 on: February 15, 2010, 10:39:42 AM »
Between M and R?
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Re: Djetset #315
« Reply #9 on: February 15, 2010, 12:04:51 PM »
No!
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Re: Djetset #315
« Reply #10 on: February 15, 2010, 03:25:05 PM »
I've looked at a number of pics of French cyclecar makes late in the alphabet, and none particularly look like this. Anyway, is the first letter S?
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Re: Djetset #315
« Reply #11 on: February 15, 2010, 03:29:38 PM »
No, not S!
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Re: Djetset #315
« Reply #12 on: February 15, 2010, 03:42:07 PM »
V?
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Re: Djetset #315
« Reply #13 on: February 15, 2010, 03:45:11 PM »
No.  At this rate, we're going to run out of letters soon!
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Re: Djetset #315
« Reply #14 on: February 15, 2010, 04:58:58 PM »
Well, eliminating S and V really seems to limit things!

Zévaco?
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Re: Djetset #315
« Reply #15 on: February 18, 2010, 08:39:00 AM »
OK, Djet - I know you're there. Why aren't you responding?  ;)
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Re: Djetset #315
« Reply #16 on: February 18, 2010, 10:52:50 AM »
Is it a Le Zebre voiturette ?

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Re: Djetset #315
« Reply #17 on: February 18, 2010, 03:47:14 PM »
Actually ftg I wasn't there as my PC blew-up two days ago, so I've been dipping in and out of AutoPuzzles via my Blackberry.  Anyway, don't stress, you get there evnetually with the correct guess as it is a Zevaco.
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