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Barrett's #277
« on: March 28, 2012, 04:48:46 PM »
What's this? I have no idea! I don't know anything about it so any questions / guesses will be met with the response: I DON'T KNOW!
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Re: Barrett's #277
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2012, 10:01:16 AM »
Experts?
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Re: Barrett's #277
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2012, 01:12:35 PM »
Needs professional help
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Re: Barrett's #277
« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2012, 02:26:31 AM »
I've seen this picture as a mystery car before. The longer I look at it, the more I get the feeling that it is more of a drawing than a photograph. If it really existed, the design makes me think of a German or Czechoslovakian car.
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Re: Barrett's #277
« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2012, 03:30:54 AM »
Could it be another photoshopped April Fools' joke?
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Re: Barrett's #277
« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2012, 09:53:34 AM »
I agree that this is simply a heavily retouched rendering, but that doesn't mean it wasn't intended to become an actual car at some point. I'd also agree that the styling points to Germanic or Czech origins...

Otto, it looks like the drawing was created 'in period' to me (the shoddy editing around the bottom of the car is my own) but I suppose it could be a total fabrication meant to mislead people. The question still stands though, if not 'what is it?' then 'What does it purport to be?'
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Re: Barrett's #277
« Reply #6 on: July 17, 2012, 07:07:35 AM »
So, likely not any real car, but a point is still there if somebody can say what it actually is... It'll be sent to the dreaded hole in the next couple of days though
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Re: Barrett's #277
« Reply #7 on: July 19, 2012, 06:04:41 AM »
to the Hole!
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Re: Barrett's #277
« Reply #8 on: November 10, 2012, 06:02:23 PM »
hanomag -maybe ?
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Re: Barrett's #277
« Reply #9 on: January 22, 2015, 09:01:31 AM »
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Re: Barrett's #277
« Reply #10 on: September 21, 2022, 06:46:46 AM »
Thamag -Zepp, ca. 1933?
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Re: Barrett's #277
« Reply #11 on: September 21, 2022, 07:08:04 AM »
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