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Please identify this car: Make? Coachbuilder? Year?
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Re: FW #215
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2021, 01:02:32 PM »
Experts?

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Re: FW #215
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2021, 01:27:12 PM »
Horch 853 ?

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Re: FW #215
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2021, 01:30:49 PM »
No

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Re: FW #215
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2021, 01:33:56 PM »
...so not a Horch ?

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Re: FW #215
« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2021, 01:35:52 PM »
Yes, not a Horch

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Re: FW #215
« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2021, 02:04:37 PM »
....then, Maybach ?

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Re: FW #215
« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2021, 02:18:30 PM »
Also not Maybach

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Re: FW #215
« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2021, 02:33:57 PM »
German?
Ein Henschel zieht am Berg und ein Mercedes
an den Türen. (and an attempt of a translation):
A Henschel in rushing up the hill, wheras in a Mercedes wind is rushing through the doors. c/o norberthanke

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Re: FW #215
« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2021, 02:43:04 PM »
No

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Re: FW #215
« Reply #10 on: December 10, 2021, 04:37:04 PM »
Gräf und Stift ? :idea:

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Re: FW #215
« Reply #11 on: December 10, 2021, 04:51:28 PM »
No

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Re: FW #215
« Reply #12 on: December 10, 2021, 05:36:29 PM »
American base?

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Re: FW #215
« Reply #13 on: December 10, 2021, 05:55:53 PM »
First part solved: Yes

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Re: FW #215
« Reply #14 on: December 10, 2021, 06:07:56 PM »
Pierce Arrow ?

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Re: FW #215
« Reply #15 on: December 10, 2021, 06:32:22 PM »
Yes, it is a Pierce-Arrow.
LOCKED for you to find year and coachbuilder (3 trials)

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Re: FW #215
« Reply #16 on: December 10, 2021, 06:58:22 PM »
1931, by Gläser ?

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Re: FW #215
« Reply #17 on: December 11, 2021, 04:15:48 AM »
It is 1930, but not Gläser

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Re: FW #215
« Reply #18 on: December 11, 2021, 07:20:38 AM »
....but a German coachbuilder ?

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Re: FW #215
« Reply #19 on: December 11, 2021, 07:21:28 AM »
No

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Re: FW #215
« Reply #20 on: December 11, 2021, 07:50:27 AM »
LeBaron ?

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Re: FW #215
« Reply #21 on: December 11, 2021, 08:26:53 AM »
No

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Re: FW #215
« Reply #22 on: December 11, 2021, 10:00:25 AM »
American coachbuilder?

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Re: FW #215
« Reply #23 on: December 11, 2021, 10:06:17 AM »
No

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Re: FW #215
« Reply #24 on: December 11, 2021, 11:17:05 AM »
Austrian builder?