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Title: Solved: Wendax 1256 - SIMA-Violet Grand Prix racer
Post by: Wendax on May 17, 2014, 01:39:21 AM
A racer in the backyard.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.
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Post by: Wendax on May 24, 2014, 01:33:47 AM
up
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Post by: Wendax on May 31, 2014, 02:02:56 AM
up again
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Post by: nicanary on June 01, 2014, 05:08:43 PM
German eigenbau?
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Post by: grobmotorix on June 02, 2014, 01:25:57 AM
The front axle looks like that of a 1910´s-1920´s Sizaire Naudin, but the car should be fron the mid 1930´s...
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Post by: Wendax on June 02, 2014, 02:05:47 AM
Quote from: nicanary on June 01, 2014, 05:08:43 PM
German eigenbau?
No
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Post by: Wendax on June 02, 2014, 02:09:35 AM
Quote from: grobmotorix on June 02, 2014, 01:25:57 AM
The front axle looks like that of a 1910´s-1920´s Sizaire Naudin, but the car should be fron the mid 1930´s...
Not a Sizaire-Naudin, not from the mid-30's.
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Post by: nicanary on June 02, 2014, 08:34:52 AM
I think the car would be more like 1920s. Is it French ?
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Post by: Wendax on June 02, 2014, 08:49:56 AM
Yes, French from the 1920s.
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Post by: targhediferro on June 02, 2014, 05:15:18 PM
Guyot Speciale?
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Post by: Wendax on June 03, 2014, 02:12:35 AM
No
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Post by: nicanary on June 03, 2014, 06:05:56 AM
Is it based on a production car which also had that suspension arrangement ?
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Post by: Wendax on June 03, 2014, 06:39:32 AM
This car is not actually based on a production car, but the company also built production cars with a transverse leaf spring at the front.
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Post by: nicanary on June 12, 2014, 06:56:30 AM
Was this a well-known high-volume manufacturer?
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Post by: Wendax on June 12, 2014, 07:02:00 AM
Quote from: nicanary on June 12, 2014, 06:56:30 AM
Was this a well-known high-volume manufacturer?
Not as well-known or high-volume as Citroen or Peugeot, but neither obscure (on an AutoPuzzles scale) nor a manufacturer of one-offs.
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Post by: nicanary on June 12, 2014, 07:25:39 AM
It looks very small - is it based on a Rosengart?
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Post by: Wendax on June 12, 2014, 07:46:54 AM
Not based on a car of another manufacturer, and not a Rosengart.
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Post by: AlexFrance on June 13, 2014, 12:39:59 PM
Delahaye ?
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Post by: Wendax on June 13, 2014, 12:50:42 PM
No
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Post by: 4popoid on June 13, 2014, 02:08:41 PM
A Hotchkiss special?
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Post by: Wendax on June 13, 2014, 02:24:13 PM
No, the manufacturer was not as big or well known as Delahaye or Hotchkiss.
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Post by: 4popoid on June 13, 2014, 03:03:28 PM
Benjamin (Benova)?
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Post by: Wendax on June 13, 2014, 03:07:07 PM
No, but now you are in the right size and fame area.
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Post by: 4popoid on June 13, 2014, 03:11:09 PM
Amilcar?
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Post by: Wendax on June 13, 2014, 03:22:26 PM
No
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Post by: pnegyesi on June 13, 2014, 03:58:16 PM
Senechal?
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Post by: 4popoid on June 13, 2014, 04:10:16 PM
Derby from about 1923?
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Post by: Wendax on June 13, 2014, 04:16:58 PM
No to both
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Post by: 4popoid on June 13, 2014, 05:26:34 PM
MASE from about 1923?
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Post by: Wendax on June 14, 2014, 01:20:55 AM
No
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Post by: 4popoid on June 14, 2014, 03:23:01 AM
Voisin from about 1923?
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Post by: pnegyesi on June 14, 2014, 04:25:39 AM
Bignan?
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Post by: nicanary on June 14, 2014, 04:59:22 AM
La Perle ?
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Post by: Wendax on June 14, 2014, 08:11:16 AM
No, no and no
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Post by: pnegyesi on June 14, 2014, 03:42:05 PM
Sima-Violet?
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Post by: Wendax on June 14, 2014, 04:12:17 PM
Yes, locked for you to add some details.
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Post by: pnegyesi on June 15, 2014, 12:10:51 AM
I don't know how you can have this without a watermark, but the picture shows
Marcel Violet at the wheel of a Sima-Violet, before the Grand Prix ACF 1926
Title: Re: Wendax 1256
Post by: Wendax on June 15, 2014, 05:32:28 AM
Yes, it is the 1926 Sima-Violet Grand Prix car with a 1500 cc engine. One more point for you.
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 1256 - SIMA-Violet Grand Prix racer
Post by: nicanary on June 15, 2014, 05:43:24 AM
I think it was maybe a "step too far" for M.Violet. It was a 2-stroke engine as always, and I doubt if that transverse leaf spring was really suitable for top-line racing against Bugattis. None of the 3 cars entered managed to start the race. Georgano states that it was a Flat-4 and had no differential.
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 1256 - SIMA-Violet Grand Prix racer
Post by: grobmotorix on March 26, 2015, 05:00:36 AM
Some nice 1926 detail shots: