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Solved - MJW #847 - Davis-Panhard Special
« on: January 21, 2012, 10:18:56 AM »
Identify this small sports racer for a point.

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Re: MJW #847
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2012, 11:00:09 AM »
Experts?

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Re: MJW #847
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2012, 05:05:28 AM »
Pros.....

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Re: MJW #847
« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2012, 06:49:50 AM »
VW based?

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Re: MJW #847
« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2012, 12:34:14 PM »

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Re: MJW #847
« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2012, 12:34:54 PM »
Panhard based?

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Re: MJW #847
« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2012, 12:41:19 PM »

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Re: MJW #847
« Reply #7 on: March 14, 2012, 06:17:26 AM »
From the Netherlands?

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Re: MJW #847
« Reply #8 on: March 14, 2012, 11:23:54 AM »
Not from the Netherlands....

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Re: MJW #847
« Reply #9 on: March 16, 2012, 12:29:08 AM »
Deutsch Bonnet?

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Re: MJW #847
« Reply #10 on: March 16, 2012, 11:40:28 AM »
Panhard-Devin ?

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Re: MJW #847
« Reply #11 on: March 19, 2012, 06:14:20 PM »
A Bobsy creation?
A car is for life, not just for Christmas.

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Re: MJW #847
« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2012, 03:21:18 AM »
Not a D-B, Panhard-Devin or Bobsy based (AFAIK).
The car is named after its constructor.

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Re: MJW #847
« Reply #13 on: March 30, 2012, 03:26:42 PM »
I'm not sure if any were built with Panhard motors, but the Bocar was named after Bob Carnes (creator) and this looks like a Bocar Stiletto.

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Re: MJW #847
« Reply #14 on: March 30, 2012, 03:36:35 PM »
I'm not sure if any were built with Panhard motors, but the Bocar was named after Bob Carnes (creator) and this looks like a Bocar Stiletto.

Yes I can see where your coming from Ray but its not a Bocar (although it may have had a body from Bob Carnes)
The car was known as a xxxxx Panhard built in San Francisco........

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Re: MJW #847
« Reply #15 on: March 30, 2012, 09:36:08 PM »
Bill Devin's shop was in Lancaster, but that's a few miles from SF.  He DID, however make glass bodies similar to the one in the photo and some of 'em had Panhard power.  One of 'em was sold to Jim Orr of Kentfield, California, which is on the north side of the SF bay.  One of the Devin Panhards won the 1956 SCCA H Modified championship.  Ironically, I used to race in H/Production...but I'm not quite old enough to have raced against those cars in their prime...although I witnessed an F3 race in Marrakesh, Morocco that was full of Panhard-powered cars around 1969.  Strange beasts.


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Re: MJW #847
« Reply #16 on: March 31, 2012, 12:29:22 AM »
Not a Devin Panhard....
Personally I think they were a better looking car

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Re: MJW #847
« Reply #17 on: March 31, 2012, 12:53:40 AM »
Here is a rear view of the puzzle car -

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Re: MJW #847
« Reply #18 on: March 31, 2012, 01:21:40 PM »
Just found this one by accident. It's the Davis Special, built by a Mr. Davis in the early 1960s. Despite the similarity to the Bocar body, this one was entirely hand made in aluminium.

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Re: MJW #847
« Reply #19 on: March 31, 2012, 01:28:44 PM »
Just found this one by accident. It's the Davis Special, built by a Mr. Davis in the early 1960s. Despite the similarity to the Bocar body, this one was entirely hand made in aluminium.
Yes, that's the car!
I have the same photo as you but have yet to find a better one than has been used so far.
Mr. Davis was based in San Francisco CA.
Another point for you.

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Re: MJW #847
« Reply #20 on: March 31, 2012, 01:36:35 PM »
Just found this one by accident. It's the Davis Special, built by a Mr. Davis in the early 1960s. Despite the similarity to the Bocar body, this one was entirely hand made in aluminium.

Congrats.  I'd hit a brick wall.

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