I understand that you don't know any technical details grob, nevertheless I need to ask a question to try to cut down on hours of useless research. The question concerns that row of large heavy looking boxes sitting on what would normally be a running board. The look of the chassis, especially the front wings, seems to indicate a pre 1910 manufacture, yet the lights are so small they must be electric, which would be nearly unheard of on a pre 1910 car. This leads me to think that this special is much newer (perhaps even post WWI) than the chassis, and those heavy boxes might be batteries. Early electric cars were setting all sorts of speed records, so might this vehicle be the conversion of an old Fiat chassis to electric, or perhaps hybrid, power?
