Topic: Puzzle #45 - Solved! 1957 Talbot-Lago / BMW 2500 Barchetta

[Carnut]

What's this, by whom, from when - for 1 point?:

Remember - solving puzzles using 'Google Search by Image' is BANNED on AutoPuzzles!

[Carnut]

Easy Expert point..

[Carnut]

Amazingly this has reached the Pro's without a single question being asked!
I think it should last maximum 5 minutes on the Pro board...

[nicanary]

Is that the Talbot-Lago America we had before?

If it is, it's from 1957/58 (sources vary) and bodied by Pichon-Parat.

[Paul Jaray]

I think I wrote something in the other topic about this car...
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=357.msg285147#msg285147

"After the closing down of the Talbot Lago works in Suresnes, professional French racing driver Victor Grignard bought the five chassis remaining in the factory. Three of these were powered by Maserati engines and only two by the BMW V8 with a displacement of 2.5 litre. Unfortunately Monsieur Grignard passed away shortly after the purchase. His daughter then sold the two BMW engined chassis to a textile industrialist from the North of France, Dominique Dupont. Dupont was not only a respected Talbot collector but actually president of the Talbot Club. One of the two cars were kept by his brother while Dupont proceeded to have chassis 140-077B fitted with a body designed by French coachbuilders Pichon et Parat. He commissioned ex Talbot factory engineers to built the body for his car following the coachbuilders' design.The result was and still is a beautiful open 2-seater 'Barquette' body, which, mated to the easily maintainable BMW V8 provided eager performance, supplying approximately 150 bhp to the rear wheels. A 4-speed ZF gearbox is responsible for conveying the power to the differential."

[nicanary]

I was thinking of NEH#2558.

[Paul Jaray]

Of course it is...
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=24126.msg265066#msg265066

...but they are both reposts of this:
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=357.msg285147#msg285147

This was the original pic in Otto's puzzle:

[Carnut]

Oh dear..
Caught out by the dreaded hyphens again..
Merged and thanks for pointing it out!

[Paul Jaray]

...but I think it should be called Dupont Sport or something like that, because it's a later recreation.

[Paul Jaray]

It was built in 1984!
The correct title for all of them should be Dupont-Talbot Sport, or similar, but it's not an original Talbot of the 50s.

[Paul Jaray]

Merged again.
This is the reason why somewhere it was called Talbot-Maserati...that was the original car this one wants to replicate, but with a BMW engine.