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Solved: PN #117 - Bignan VAL-3, 1922
« on: September 18, 2010, 02:37:51 AM »
Here's one for those who love really old cars. Please identify this car for a point.
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Re: PN #117
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2010, 08:38:51 AM »
Experts?
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Re: PN #117
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2010, 09:27:10 AM »
Production car as opposed to one-off?
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Re: PN #117
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2010, 09:59:27 AM »
Production car
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Re: PN #117
« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2010, 10:26:30 AM »
European?
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Re: PN #117
« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2010, 10:28:53 AM »
Yes
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Re: PN #117
« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2010, 10:43:22 AM »
British Isles or mainland Europe?
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Re: PN #117
« Reply #7 on: September 28, 2010, 10:50:06 AM »
Looks rather like a 2/3 scale replica of the Lancia Lambda ;D

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Re: PN #117
« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2010, 12:38:52 PM »
Mainland Europe, but not Italy (per Arthur Dent's hint)
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Re: PN #117
« Reply #9 on: September 28, 2010, 12:47:47 PM »
France?
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Re: PN #117
« Reply #10 on: September 28, 2010, 02:59:01 PM »
Yes, this one is from France
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Re: PN #117
« Reply #11 on: September 28, 2010, 03:13:47 PM »
Made in the 1920s?
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Re: PN #117
« Reply #12 on: September 28, 2010, 03:15:07 PM »
Yes
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Re: PN #117
« Reply #13 on: September 28, 2010, 03:35:46 PM »
Did the make exist only during the 1920s?
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Re: PN #117
« Reply #14 on: September 28, 2010, 11:04:43 PM »
It started right after 1st WW and existed only in the 1920s
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Re: PN #117
« Reply #15 on: September 30, 2010, 02:02:46 PM »
Bignan ?

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Re: PN #117
« Reply #16 on: September 30, 2010, 02:46:04 PM »
yves, locked for you. Can you be a little bit more specific?
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Re: PN #117
« Reply #17 on: October 01, 2010, 07:36:42 AM »
Bignan 8HP "Epsilon" 1923

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Re: PN #117
« Reply #18 on: October 01, 2010, 07:42:17 AM »
That's not the model name & not the model year which was provided in the source. So you have one more go :)
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Re: PN #117
« Reply #19 on: October 01, 2010, 07:24:26 PM »
1922 Bignan VAL-3 (Based on Salsmon AL-3)

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Re: PN #117
« Reply #20 on: October 02, 2010, 12:20:49 AM »
That's the one
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