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A point if you can identify what this proposal is and who it is by?
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Re: NEH 725
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2010, 11:47:17 AM »
a Saoutchik design, possibly for a Renault 4CV or Dyna Panhard?

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Re: NEH 725
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2010, 06:06:18 PM »
It is Saoutchik, yes.
But not Renault or Panhard.
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Re: NEH 725
« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2010, 06:08:28 AM »
Time for a move up...
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Re: NEH 725
« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2010, 06:45:50 AM »
It is a Saoutchik sketch for the catalogue of the Mathis 666 at the Paris Auto Show from 1949 ; it is only a sketch, the car was never made with this Saoutchik body.

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Re: NEH 725
« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2010, 08:08:48 AM »
It is a Saoutchik sketch for the catalogue of the Mathis 666 at the Paris Auto Show from 1949 ; it is only a sketch, the car was never made with this Saoutchik body.

That is indeed exactly what it is!
Well done Franck.
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