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SOLVED: WTH # 317 - 1933 Derby L8 11CV Montlhery Roadster by Duval
« on: February 28, 2014, 01:46:38 PM »
A very strange little engine.

For one point, specify the year, make, model, and coachbuilder of this car
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Re: WTH # 317
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2014, 11:03:09 PM »
Can an Expert decipher this puzzle?
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Re: WTH # 317
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2014, 04:53:26 PM »
Is it the original engine of the car?
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Re: WTH # 317
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2014, 05:15:43 PM »
From the styling the car appears to be pre-war, does the engine date from the same era?
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Re: WTH # 317
« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2014, 06:24:41 PM »
This is the original engine in this car.  Both car and engine were produced before WWII.
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Re: WTH # 317
« Reply #5 on: March 05, 2014, 03:31:24 PM »
A Marmon?
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Re: WTH # 317
« Reply #6 on: March 05, 2014, 04:26:59 PM »
Not a Marmon
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Re: WTH # 317
« Reply #7 on: March 05, 2014, 07:34:28 PM »
Whoops!  I see it's a V8 not a V6
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Re: WTH # 317
« Reply #8 on: March 05, 2014, 11:54:59 PM »
V8 is correct
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Re: WTH # 317
« Reply #9 on: March 20, 2014, 06:27:03 PM »
Up!

Do the Pros recognize this strange car?
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Re: WTH # 317
« Reply #10 on: March 20, 2014, 07:12:39 PM »
Six-volt electrics, so from the USA?
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Re: WTH # 317
« Reply #11 on: March 20, 2014, 11:43:43 PM »
1933 Derby V8 with roadster body by Duval. These were the last Derby cars to be produced. The Lepicard designed cars had engines with side inlet valves and exhaust overhead valves driving the front wheels. This roadster has a body called “Montlhéry” and was used by Gwenda Stewart in the 1934 Monte Carlo Rally. Two V8 Derbys ran unsuccessfully at Le Mans in 1934 and a single further entry also retired in 1935.

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Re: WTH # 317
« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2014, 08:41:23 AM »
Point awarded to ropat53 for the complete answer.

I found a picture of this strange green roadster, and I thought it would make a good puzzle, mostly for being offbeat and generic looking.  Then I saw the side/overhead valve engine, and figured the engine would be a better puzzle.

Outside of the car:

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