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Chain-Drive Special
« on: December 27, 2015, 04:10:43 AM »
What's this car?
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Re: BD324
« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2016, 03:34:29 AM »
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Re: BD324
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2016, 08:57:44 AM »
Nobody told them that no matter how well you prop up a corpse, it'll never be able to drive.
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Re: BD324
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2016, 10:02:04 AM »
Quote from: richard cuyler on January 03, 2016, 08:57:44 AM
Nobody told them that no matter how well you prop up a corpse, it'll never be able to drive.

Oh I don't know, there seem to be plenty of them driving around here.
Or maybe they're just brain-dead...!
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Re: BD324
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2016, 07:49:13 PM »
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Re: BD324
« Reply #5 on: January 08, 2016, 09:17:28 PM »
This is believed to be a circa 1912 Special built in Austria on an early Darracq chassis with a Clement like radiator.
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Re: BD324
« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2016, 04:44:05 AM »
Yes ropat53, but give me the name for this car.  I haven't 1912 for the year.  Locked for you 24 HOurs or 1 try.
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Re: BD324 Locked for Ropat53
« Reply #7 on: January 09, 2016, 08:22:35 AM »
I found the car at the SVVS site:
"IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1912 Chain-drive Special
Curious photo received from Doriel Laron (Israel),  sorry for poor quality, asking if we can help identify this car from an old family photo? Believed taken in Austria around 1913.   -- This looks like a 'special' constructed on an early chain drive light car 1902-5, (tubular chassis frame, very short wheelbase) modernised cca 1912 Special with a later radiator a la Clement, and teutonicish bodywork, and steering column moved back and inclined.  Stubby tubular dumbirons,  bit like a Darracq."
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Re: BD324 Locked for Ropat53
« Reply #8 on: January 09, 2016, 02:42:40 PM »
Correct
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Re: Chain-Drive Special
« Reply #9 on: January 09, 2016, 04:08:30 PM »
Thank you for the point.
I don't think Chain Drive Special is the name of the car, I think it's just a description of what can be seen in the picture and neither the owner of the original picture nor the people at the SVVS know what it really is.
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