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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2020 => Topic started by: SACO on May 17, 2014, 02:18:23 AM

Title: SAC#732 : Danish-rebodied Bugatti Type 40 ( 40206 )
Post by: SACO on May 17, 2014, 02:18:23 AM
What's this ,and where for 1 point ?  :)
Title: Re: SAC#732
Post by: SACO on May 26, 2014, 02:00:46 AM
Experts !
Title: Re: SAC#732
Post by: richard cuyler on May 26, 2014, 09:13:13 AM
The buildings in the background say 'British', so is it a British car?
Title: Re: SAC#732
Post by: SACO on May 26, 2014, 09:34:51 AM
Not  a British car !
Title: Re: SAC#732
Post by: spider on May 26, 2014, 01:06:23 PM
Opel Kapitan by Pennock
Title: Re: SAC#732
Post by: SACO on May 26, 2014, 01:41:09 PM
Not Opel and not by Pennock !
Title: Re: SAC#732
Post by: fyreline on May 26, 2014, 09:37:55 PM
Crazy guess: Scandanavian?
Title: Re: SAC#732
Post by: SACO on May 27, 2014, 01:36:55 AM
Yes !
Title: Re: SAC#732
Post by: fyreline on May 27, 2014, 09:11:22 AM
Darn it, I was afraid of that. I know I've seen this photo somewhere, and I vaguely remembered it as being from Sweden or Denmark (not sure which) and that the car isn't AT ALL what anyone would think it is . . . But of course I don't have the slightest recollection of what make the car is. I know it will come to me, I just don't know when. . . . As I get older, these little naps are SO refreshing. So please don't lock it, maybe someone else saw the original photo, too. I'll start looking.
Title: Re: SAC#732
Post by: SACO on May 27, 2014, 09:20:20 AM
OK for Denmark  !
Nothing else ? :)
Title: Re: SAC#732
Post by: fyreline on May 27, 2014, 03:49:29 PM
Still looking . . . A Minerva, perhaps, under all that Danish pastry?
Title: Re: SAC#732
Post by: mekubb on May 27, 2014, 05:02:54 PM
Chrysler by Jensen ?
Title: Re: SAC#732
Post by: SACO on May 28, 2014, 01:26:07 AM
Not a Minerva and not a Chrysler by Jensen  !
Title: Re: SAC#732
Post by: fyreline on May 28, 2014, 03:41:39 PM
Let's try Austrian, just to be different . . . Graf & Stift?
Title: Re: SAC#732
Post by: mekubb on May 28, 2014, 04:40:20 PM
European car with Danish body ?
Title: Re: SAC#732
Post by: fyreline on May 28, 2014, 05:12:24 PM
I'm pretty sure (about 90%) that this is a European car beneath that extensive Danish bodywork. Most likely it wore a much different set of clothes when it was new - which only makes the search more difficult. Fun, though . . . I've come across some pretty interesting cars during the search, but I haven't found it yet.
Title: Re: SAC#732
Post by: SACO on May 28, 2014, 05:15:51 PM
Yes !European car with Danish body !
Not a Graf & Stift !
Title: Re: SAC#732
Post by: fyreline on May 30, 2014, 03:50:56 PM
OK, I finally came up with it . . I decided to start going alphabetically through large European cars of the right approximate age and researching them, cross-referencing with "Danish" or "Denmark" . . . And still came up with nothing, until a Scandinavian friend suggested I use "Dansk" instead of "Danish". All I can say is, thank god it wasn't a ZIL or I never would have gotten to it.

I believe this car is a Danish-rebodied Bugatti Type 40. I am uncertain as to either the year of the original car, or when the Danish body was fabricated. It does appear the car has since been acquired in Germany and is being re-bodied more correctly, and thank goodness for that.
Title: Re: SAC#732
Post by: SACO on May 31, 2014, 02:23:51 AM
 :thumbsup:
 Yes , a Danish-rebodied Bugatti Type 40 ( 40206 )
1 point for fyreline !
" Bugatti "is writing in front of the car :
Title: Re: SAC#732 : Danish-rebodied Bugatti Type 40 ( 40206 )
Post by: nicanary on May 31, 2014, 05:05:48 AM
The Bugatti Trust archive does not have a photo of that car/body combination on the Type 40 register. If anyone has the IT skills to send them a copy it might interest them.
Title: Solved: Wendax 3102 - Bugatti 40 rebodied in Denmark
Post by: Wendax on January 18, 2020, 06:45:15 AM
Not sure whether the two large chrome strips really improve the styling.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.
Title: Re: Wendax 3102
Post by: Wendax on January 25, 2020, 05:16:40 AM
up
Title: Re: Wendax 3102
Post by: targhediferro on February 04, 2020, 04:14:12 PM
Imperia?
Title: Re: Wendax 3102
Post by: Wendax on February 04, 2020, 05:14:02 PM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 3102
Post by: targhediferro on February 08, 2020, 06:45:28 AM
Ford based?
Title: Re: Wendax 3102
Post by: Wendax on February 08, 2020, 11:06:28 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 3102
Post by: D-type on February 08, 2020, 02:59:07 PM
From the Americas?
Title: Re: Wendax 3102
Post by: Wendax on February 08, 2020, 04:04:40 PM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 3102
Post by: mekubb on February 09, 2020, 03:38:50 PM
German ?
Title: Re: Wendax 3102
Post by: Wendax on February 09, 2020, 03:41:37 PM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 3102
Post by: Wendax on February 23, 2020, 02:29:57 AM
up again
Title: Re: Wendax 3102
Post by: Fёdor on February 23, 2020, 02:49:22 AM
French?
Title: Re: Wendax 3102
Post by: Wendax on February 23, 2020, 03:50:11 AM
Partially
Title: Re: Wendax 3102
Post by: Fёdor on February 23, 2020, 04:21:39 AM
was once a Bugatti
Title: Re: Wendax 3102
Post by: Wendax on February 23, 2020, 05:09:50 AM
Yes, locked for you.
Title: Re: Wendax 3102
Post by: Fёdor on February 24, 2020, 03:38:07 AM
Typ 40
Title: Re: Wendax 3102
Post by: Wendax on February 24, 2020, 03:56:37 AM
Yes, as the coachbuilder is unknown, just add the country where the conversion was done, and the point is yours.
Title: Re: Wendax 3102
Post by: Fёdor on February 24, 2020, 04:24:12 AM
In Denmark in the 50s
Title: Re: Wendax 3102
Post by: Wendax on February 24, 2020, 05:11:51 AM
One more point for you.
A Danish body on chassis 40206.
Title: Re: SAC#732 : Danish-rebodied Bugatti Type 40 ( 40206 )
Post by: Wendax on April 09, 2024, 09:53:13 AM
A puzzle picture added to the old puzzle and merged