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SOLVED: Djetset 844 - Simca/Chrysler Project 929 XA proposal (by Bertone?)
« on: September 29, 2017, 12:35:24 PM »
What is this a proposal for please for a point (make and model)?
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Re: Djetset 844
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2017, 01:59:43 PM »
Anything to do with Michelotti?
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Re: Djetset 844
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2017, 02:16:36 PM »
Quote from: Skut on September 29, 2017, 01:59:43 PM
Anything to do with Michelotti?
It looks like the work Michelotti to me, but I was told by someone that should know that it's not. Any idea for which marque this design proposal was for?
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Re: Djetset 844
« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2017, 11:27:21 AM »
Rootes Swallow?
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Re: Djetset 844
« Reply #4 on: October 02, 2017, 11:38:03 AM »
Quote from: Skut on October 02, 2017, 11:27:21 AM
Rootes Swallow?
Not a Rootes product.
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Re: Djetset 844
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2017, 07:33:05 AM »
On the move...
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Re: Djetset 844
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2017, 08:01:56 AM »
Saab?
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Re: Djetset 844
« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2017, 08:39:21 AM »
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Re: Djetset 844
« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2017, 11:26:37 AM »
British?
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Re: Djetset 844
« Reply #9 on: October 17, 2017, 11:27:47 AM »
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Re: Djetset 844
« Reply #10 on: October 17, 2017, 11:46:15 AM »
American?
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Re: Djetset 844
« Reply #11 on: October 17, 2017, 12:27:48 PM »
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Re: Djetset 844
« Reply #12 on: October 17, 2017, 12:45:14 PM »
Japanese?
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Re: Djetset 844
« Reply #13 on: October 17, 2017, 01:01:51 PM »
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Re: Djetset 844
« Reply #14 on: October 17, 2017, 01:20:48 PM »
French?
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Re: Djetset 844
« Reply #15 on: October 17, 2017, 01:56:26 PM »
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Re: Djetset 844
« Reply #16 on: October 17, 2017, 02:53:48 PM »

 Peugeot
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Re: Djetset 844
« Reply #17 on: October 17, 2017, 05:19:33 PM »
A Renault proposal to replace the "Rambler Renault" with a homegrown product?
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Re: Djetset 844
« Reply #18 on: October 17, 2017, 05:50:20 PM »
Citroen?  Looks a bit Bertoni-ish...
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Re: Djetset 844
« Reply #19 on: October 17, 2017, 05:54:58 PM »
None of the above so far, although this is claimed to be the work of Bertone.
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Re: Djetset 844
« Reply #20 on: October 17, 2017, 06:11:33 PM »
Not Peugeot, Renault or Citroen..
How about Simca?
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Re: Djetset 844
« Reply #21 on: October 17, 2017, 06:18:49 PM »
Quote from: Carnut on October 17, 2017, 06:11:33 PM
Not Peugeot, Renault or Citroen..
How about Simca?
Panhard didn't get a mention! Just as well as this is a planned Simca, so now locked to you to correctly identify the model.
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Re: Djetset 844
« Reply #22 on: October 18, 2017, 04:59:58 AM »
Thanks.
Not weird enough for a Panhard!
No, it's part of Project 929 XA which ended up being the Chrysler 160/180.
It was one of numerous proposals, all of which were rejected apart from the most boring and ugly of the lot, which was the one they put into production.  I can only think the entire department was staffed by blind people!

Here are a few more pictures:

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Re: Djetset 844
« Reply #23 on: October 18, 2017, 06:01:04 AM »
Well done Carnuit, that's the beast. I visited the CAAPY (Matford, Simca, Chrysler, Talbot, Peugeot, et.) museum in Poissy a few weeks ago (where I took my photo) and the curator there explained to me that this was the Project 929 XA proposal (he was convinced it was by Bertone, but it looks more Michelotti or Pininfarina to me) for a Simca-badged version for the car, to sit above the Simca 1300-1500, with the British version (where the Chrysler 160-180-2-Litre was developed) due to be branded as a Humber.

Another point to you, taking less than 50 points away now from the grave yard slot!
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Re: SOLVED: Djetset 844 - Simca/Chrysler Project 929 XA proposal (by Bertone?)
« Reply #24 on: October 18, 2017, 10:27:19 PM »
Here is a bit more about Project 929: http://www.rootes-chrysler.co.uk/simca-cars/simca-projet.html

As luck would have it, I spotted this thread about two hours after it was locked.....
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