Author Topic: Solved - NEH 1224: Talbot-Lago T26 Grand Sport by Saoutchik - 1949  (Read 1052 times)

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Make/model/name/builder/date?  All for 1 point..
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Re: NEH 1224
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2011, 11:02:44 PM »
Looks like a Talbot Lago T26 GS with Saoutchik bodywork. I don't have an exact year, but I would think 1948.

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Re: NEH 1224
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2011, 03:51:50 AM »
Looks like a Talbot Lago T26 GS with Saoutchik bodywork. I don't have an exact year, but I would think 1948.

That is indeed the car, although it's from 1950 rather than 1948 - but I've given you the point since you got the exact name right and you're close enough with the date.

An easy one, I know, but I thought it was such a lovely car it needed to feature on AP..!
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Re: Solved - NEH 1224: Talbot-Lago T26 Grand Sport by Saoutchik - 1950
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2011, 04:06:40 AM »
Peter M. Larsen (Talbot Lago specialist) has it as from 1949.

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Re: Solved - NEH 1224: Talbot-Lago T26 Grand Sport by Saoutchik - 1950
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2011, 05:52:10 AM »
Peter M. Larsen (Talbot Lago specialist) has it as from 1949.

I've seen it on the 'Net as both a 1948 and 1950 so we might as well have 1949 in as well!

This is a picture described as a 1949 Saoutchik T26, which may well be the same car?:

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Re: Solved - NEH 1224: Talbot-Lago T26 Grand Sport by Saoutchik - 1949/50
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2011, 05:55:04 AM »
That is a different one, as you can tell when you see the front:

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Re: Solved - NEH 1224: Talbot-Lago T26 Grand Sport by Saoutchik - 1949/50
« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2011, 07:59:30 AM »
And you think they made both that one and my puzzle car in the same year?
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Re: Solved - NEH 1224: Talbot-Lago T26 Grand Sport by Saoutchik - 1949/50
« Reply #7 on: August 23, 2011, 12:17:41 PM »
I just had a look  at my René Bellu books. The puzzle car is definitely from 1949. In 1949, Saoutchik built at least further two Talbot Lago convertibles and one Delahaye. The other car you mention was already displayed at the Paris Salon 1948 and again at Brussels Salon 1949.
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Re: Solved - NEH 1224: Talbot-Lago T26 Grand Sport by Saoutchik - 1949
« Reply #8 on: August 25, 2011, 12:23:56 AM »
A lovely car indeed. This is the first T26 GS Saoutchik that I see with that grille design. Does anyone know how many T26 GS's were bodied by Saoutchik?

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Re: Solved - NEH 1224: Talbot-Lago T26 Grand Sport by Saoutchik - 1949
« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2015, 01:14:24 PM »
The puzzle car has been unearthed with the Baillon collection:

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Re: Solved - NEH 1224: Talbot-Lago T26 Grand Sport by Saoutchik - 1949
« Reply #10 on: February 07, 2015, 04:05:00 PM »
Sold for $1,925,813 – 1,702,000€ :o :o :o

The 59 lots of the Baillon collection were sold and the sale total reached 28.5 million dollars.

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Re: Solved - NEH 1224: Talbot-Lago T26 Grand Sport by Saoutchik - 1949
« Reply #11 on: March 21, 2016, 06:07:26 AM »
Period pic
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