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Solved NIC#462 - 1908 Galliot cyclecar
« on: September 12, 2015, 08:34:05 AM »
Year and maker, please.
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Re: NIC #462
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2015, 06:16:13 AM »
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Re: NIC #462
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2015, 06:26:54 AM »
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Re: NIC #462
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2015, 05:22:36 PM »
Is it a French car?

ca. 1902-1905?

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Re: NIC #462
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2015, 05:27:07 PM »
Is it a French car?

ca. 1902-1905?

Yes, it's French but a few years later.
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Re: NIC #462
« Reply #5 on: December 23, 2015, 04:54:46 AM »
I am sure I have seen this before  :P

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Re: NIC #462
« Reply #6 on: December 23, 2015, 03:30:32 PM »
I am sure I have seen this before  :P

The AP search, which we all know is so accurate, does not show this marque as a previous puzzle.
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Re: NIC #462
« Reply #7 on: December 30, 2015, 03:08:03 PM »
Passe-Partout?

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Re: NIC #462
« Reply #8 on: December 30, 2015, 03:09:51 PM »
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Re: NIC #462
« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2016, 04:52:28 AM »
Galliot Tandem Voiturette, 1908 - finally...

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Re: NIC #462
« Reply #10 on: January 06, 2016, 05:24:55 AM »
Galliot Tandem Voiturette, 1908 - finally...

Yes! Well solved.
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Re: Solved NIC#462 - 1908 Galliot cyclecar
« Reply #11 on: January 06, 2016, 05:51:34 AM »
It took me some time...

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Re: Solved NIC#462 - 1908 Galliot cyclecar
« Reply #12 on: January 07, 2016, 07:41:13 AM »
I did some quick photo editing so I could see the car without the little letters (as well as what appears to be a couple of smudges), and thought I'd share:
"May I submit 'Utopian Turtletop'? Do not trouble to answer unless you like it."
-- Marianne Moore, suggesting a name for what would become the Edsel

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Re: Solved NIC#462 - 1908 Galliot cyclecar
« Reply #13 on: January 07, 2016, 08:16:46 AM »
Thanks. I was thinking that you wouldn't want to be in the front passenger's seat if the radiator boiled over - any eruption of scalding water would land on your neck.
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