Same car, reworked?
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=7629.msg55209#msg55209
Saw this car was for sale at Techno Classica a few years back & a display card mentioned something about the body being put on another chassis.
I guess the earlier chassis had a narrower track , hence the wheel spats / fender skirts were later removed.
Some more interesting / too much (?!) info from another source ;
Umberto and Bruno De Mola were two brothers from Trieste who emigrated to Belgium around 1933. In 1940, their body shop in Brussels was quite well known. Mid 1940, while Belgium was under German occupation, the owner of a circa 1931 supercharged 6C1750 wanted them to rebody the car, without providing drawings or precise request other than to make it the most beautiful car in the world (!).
De Mola has his shop in Rue Jacques de Lalaing, 6, in Brussels. The original owner who commissioned the coachwork was a Mr. Joseph Nothomb from Brussels. Date of “order” might be 1939 instead of under occupation, but the car, entirely hand-beaten wasn’t ready before fall 1941
It seems that panel beating took around one year to be completed. Result was a spectacular car with such features as wheel spats front and rear and covered headlamps . It was originally dark blue with red detailing. Seats were of dark green leather. The car spent the remaining war years in Belgium, then came into Dutch Prince Bernhard ownership. In 1947, it went back to De Mola’s body shop to be repainted in two shades of red. It won prizes at a concours in Ostende in 1948.
Later it ended in the USA where a Paul Hatmont swapped the 1750 mechanicals for a Ford six and related gearbox and rear end. Details like bumpers and spats were also lost. It was then sold to Jackson Brooks in Colorado who bought a 6C1750 chassis to rebuild it, but eventually had a replica Zagato body crafted for that chassis. Then Brooks found a 1948 6C2500 chassis (915695) which was adapted to fit the De Mola body. In 1973 the car was sold to Jim Southard and sold to UK in the late 80s.
