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What is this car? Tell me what you know - the marque and the engine.
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Re: NIC #304
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2014, 07:58:10 AM »
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Re: NIC #304
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2014, 01:26:34 PM »
Rear lights look like a Ford. Going anywhere with this idea?
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Re: NIC #304
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2014, 07:54:34 PM »
Rear lights look like a Ford. Going anywhere with this idea?

It's possible. The car was made from various parts in a country where the Ford would be readily available.
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Re: NIC #304
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2014, 10:22:33 PM »
southamerican?

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Re: NIC #304
« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2014, 06:05:45 AM »
southamerican?

Yes and no. The original car is not from there, but the car was recreated in South America.
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Re: NIC #304
« Reply #6 on: November 01, 2014, 10:42:25 PM »
Benjamin? :o

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Re: NIC #304
« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2014, 05:58:34 AM »
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Re: NIC #304
« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2014, 12:58:39 PM »
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Re: NIC #304
« Reply #9 on: November 30, 2014, 02:14:18 PM »
The car is a 1930 Rolland-Pilain Grand Prix car which was up for auction last year.  According to the auction information, it has an all aluminum body, and is powered by a Continental Red Seal straight eight.

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Re: NIC #304
« Reply #10 on: November 30, 2014, 02:27:41 PM »
The car is a 1930 Rolland-Pilain Grand Prix car which was up for auction last year.  According to the auction information, it has an all aluminum body, and is powered by a Continental Red Seal straight eight.

Another one solved by the experience of the Pros. The point is yours.

There was no Rolland-Pilain GP car of that year. I have no information about what the chassis really consists of, but the marque did install  Continental/Lycoming engines in that period. The car was for sale in Argentina, and I guess that that's where this speedster body originated. These American engines were first fitted from 1930, so that tallies, but the last GP cars from R-P were built in 1923, and this chassis looks bigger than those.
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Re: Solved NIC#304 - 1930 Rolland-Pilain "Grand Prix" with Continental engine
« Reply #11 on: November 30, 2014, 02:31:03 PM »
A frontal view.
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