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SOLVED: Djetset #504 - 1952 Balsa F2 (Peugeot 203 base)
« on: March 22, 2011, 07:14:48 PM »
What is this called for a point?
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Re: Djetset #504
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2011, 05:37:41 PM »
On the move.
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Re: Djetset #504
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2011, 04:45:24 PM »
Tornado?

But why the huge picture?
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Re: Djetset #504
« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2011, 04:22:42 AM »
How about this for size?!:

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Re: Djetset #504
« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2011, 01:03:22 PM »
formula 2?

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Re: Djetset #504
« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2011, 05:24:17 PM »
Not a Tornado, and not certain if it's an F2 car as my source doesn't confirm this, although I suspect it is.  Thanks for the re-sized image. 
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Re: Djetset #504
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2011, 10:15:59 PM »
Is it a Maserati A6GCM with the grill remounted sideways?

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Re: Djetset #504
« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2011, 04:58:19 AM »
It's the wrong colo(u)r for a Maserati, so it's not one of those!  :D
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Re: Djetset #504
« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2011, 11:24:04 AM »
BMW powered?
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Re: Djetset #504
« Reply #9 on: April 08, 2011, 11:45:29 AM »
Not 100% sure as I don't yet know what engine it used, but 99% likely not to be BMW powered.
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Re: Djetset #504
« Reply #10 on: April 08, 2011, 01:27:54 PM »
Okay. Its a Gordini T-16 with the grill on sideways!   :doh:

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Re: Djetset #504
« Reply #11 on: April 10, 2011, 05:59:34 PM »
Is it European?
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Re: Djetset #504
« Reply #12 on: April 14, 2011, 12:04:29 PM »
It is European, but not a Gordini.
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Re: Djetset #504
« Reply #13 on: May 13, 2011, 04:02:26 PM »
A long shot - is it an OSCA?
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Re: Djetset #504
« Reply #14 on: May 13, 2011, 05:06:08 PM »
As far as paint color goes, stranger things have happened.  ::)

How about a Simca 8 Speciale voiturette Formula Two?

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Re: Djetset #504
« Reply #15 on: May 13, 2011, 06:02:10 PM »
Not an OSCA and not a Simca.
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Re: Djetset #504
« Reply #16 on: May 14, 2011, 02:32:15 PM »
Some sort of BMW "Eigenbau"
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Re: Djetset #504
« Reply #17 on: May 16, 2011, 04:14:01 PM »
Some sort of BMW "Eigenbau?

No!
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Re: Djetset #504
« Reply #18 on: May 16, 2011, 07:55:50 PM »
1948 Escribe Specale?

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Re: Djetset #504
« Reply #19 on: May 17, 2011, 04:26:10 AM »
Not that one I'm afraid.
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Re: Djetset #504
« Reply #20 on: May 17, 2011, 03:48:58 PM »
Some sort of BMW "Eigenbau?

No!
Whoops!  Sorry, I'd already asked that hadn't I  :doh:
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Re: Djetset #504
« Reply #21 on: May 17, 2011, 08:31:22 PM »
I can't find a picture but is it the 1948 Martin Speciale - Fraser Nash (BMW 328)?

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Re: Djetset #504
« Reply #22 on: May 18, 2011, 05:53:13 PM »
Not the Martin Speciale.

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Re: Djetset #504
« Reply #23 on: May 19, 2011, 05:15:27 AM »
Salmson? (possibly the Serge Pozzoli car c.1945/46)?

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Re: Djetset #504
« Reply #24 on: May 19, 2011, 05:18:30 AM »
Not a Salmson.
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