Author Topic: Guyot Speciale at a racing event in the Garage Banville, Paris, 1927 (Read 1615 times)

grobmotorix · « **on:** December 09, 2014, 01:51:19 PM »

Who knows this racing car?

Make and year are sufficient for one point.

One extra point for the exact (and quite unusual) place, where this race event took place...

grobmotorix · « **Reply #1 on:** January 04, 2015, 04:17:44 AM »

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Wendax · « **Reply #3 on:** January 10, 2015, 07:30:05 AM »

German?

grobmotorix · « **Reply #4 on:** January 10, 2015, 07:45:25 AM »

Car and place are not German.

targhediferro · « **Reply #5 on:** January 10, 2015, 08:20:47 AM »

grobmotorix · « **Reply #6 on:** January 10, 2015, 09:14:48 AM »

Not BUC.

Wendax · « **Reply #7 on:** January 10, 2015, 12:27:04 PM »

American?

grobmotorix · « **Reply #8 on:** January 10, 2015, 02:04:25 PM »

Well not American, but the first guess BUC hit the correct country instantly...

Wendax · « **Reply #9 on:** January 10, 2015, 02:29:14 PM »

I think it could be a 1926 Guyot-Speciale.

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #10 on:** January 10, 2015, 02:47:24 PM »

Or a Lombard 1.5 Litre?

grobmotorix · « **Reply #11 on:** January 10, 2015, 02:58:47 PM »

One point for Wendax!

It is indeed a Guyot race car.

Now there is a second point available for the unusual location of this event.

LOCKED for Wendax.

Wendax · « **Reply #12 on:** January 10, 2015, 03:22:45 PM »

Inside a building?

grobmotorix · « **Reply #13 on:** January 10, 2015, 03:40:09 PM »

Yes - a building very closely related to cars...

Wendax · « **Reply #14 on:** January 10, 2015, 04:09:24 PM »

Probably an automobile factory. If it was Italian, I would say Lingotto, but I don't think that a rare French car would have been raced there. It doesn't look like Quai Javel or Ile Seguin either.

I might have another picture of the same event, stored for quite a while without further information:

grobmotorix · « **Reply #15 on:** January 10, 2015, 05:46:05 PM »

Not a factory.

Where to go with a car in a crowded city...?

PS: the photo you posted might indeed show the same event!

Three more guesses for you, O.K.?

Wendax · « **Reply #16 on:** January 10, 2015, 06:14:54 PM »

Okay, it is a hillclimb race in a multi-storey car park, in Paris. Unfortunately, the French term for it is just garage. Ever tried googling it?

It is not Garage Ponthieu. I found a second photo to the one posted by me before:

grobmotorix · « **Reply #17 on:** January 10, 2015, 06:27:15 PM »

It is not Garage Ponthieu...

But it is a Paris garage, of course.

Two more tries.

grobmotorix · « **Reply #18 on:** January 10, 2015, 06:50:03 PM »

To help:

it was a massive eight-storey building, and here is a photo of the facade:

Wendax · « **Reply #19 on:** January 11, 2015, 02:36:39 AM »

Well, I finally found it. And no, I didn't spend the night virtually walking through Paris by looking at Google Streetview.

The race took place at the Garage Banville:

grobmotorix · « **Reply #20 on:** January 11, 2015, 03:48:08 AM »

Wow, now you definitly deserve the second point!

nicanary · « **Reply #21 on:** January 11, 2015, 10:35:04 AM »

The manager of the Garage Banville was none other than Robert Benoist, famous pre-war grand prix driver and later a leader in the Resistance.

grobmotorix · « **Reply #22 on:** January 11, 2015, 11:22:33 AM »

Interesting!

Thank you.

Here´s a rather funny participants of that race:

grobmotorix · « **Reply #23 on:** January 20, 2015, 03:44:20 PM »

I found a magazine clipping from February 1933.

It seems it was "en vogue" to celebrate the opening of new big garages with a race in the old days in France...

Wendax, I think your first two photos show this different event at a new garage at Rue de la Tombe Issoire:

Wendax · « **Reply #24 on:** January 20, 2015, 04:24:44 PM »

Thanks for that. If the building still exists, it should be this one, formerly a BMW dealer, recently being converted to an apartment building (two-room apartment starting at € 840,000

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Author Topic: Guyot Speciale at a racing event in the Garage Banville, Paris, 1927 (Read 1615 times)