Well Goodness!!!
Here we have two Americans, one Dutchman and one Frenchman trying to identify a very rare French car and
nobody seems to come close.
For what it is worth, not much, I have been doing identification of military "soft skin" vehicles for decades and
I have several identification points that I always try to use.
In this case, the body of the car is sort of a generic "close coupled sedan" as we would say in American
English and can be seen on any number of Renault, Peugot and other French cars as well as a few
Belgian and Italian makes.
At first, I was sure it was a Hotchkiss with the crossed cannons missing from the radiator mask but that did not work.
Note that it has a typical French type of front bumper used by some but not all French car manufacturers. Some used the
bumper with a "dip" in the center, some did not. Next is the "style" of the louvers in the side of the motor hood. In the case of this car,
there seem to be three rows of horizontal louvers and I have so far not been able to find exactly that configuration
except for Peugot.
Next is the type of wheel and cover over the wheel nuts and if we are lucky, there is sometimes the logo
of the manufacturer, not in this case.
Finally for this particular car, it appears to be right hand drive which would also indicate a "premium"
French brand.
Good luck to all to solve thls one
tge
