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The fluted bonnet Mystery. (update:1914 Brasier !)


Most carphotos that need identifying are vague. How different this photo as provided by a Bugatti afficionado. The slightly scruffy car is pictured crisp and sharp. Location is Belgium or the south of the Netherlands in the fifties or early sixties (check VW beetle in background). But so far no ID of the car. The low camera angle isn't very helpful, but as usual let's concentrate on what the photo has to tell aside that it is a nice edwardian tourer. At the rear end (check larger pic) we see a construction with half and quarter eliptic leave springs not uncommon for the day. The twelve spoke artillery wheels may be a next help. At the front the hood/bonnet is showing slightly angled intricately made louvres going in and out. The radiator set-up gives a fluting of the bonnet and the toptank seems elongated towards the back if we correctly identify the brass top fitting as a radiator cap. We are confident all this should be enough to get your memory going Or?

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13 Febbraio 2013, 20:48
Mm. Reckon Patrick's right - the flat crown of the bonnet seems identical to the Brasier he references (unlike Mors).
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12 Febbraio 2013, 18:43
The typical Vauxhall "flutes" were cut into the "shoulders" of the bonnet, and angled away from the top of the grille, forming a V shape in plan view.
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12 Febbraio 2013, 16:58
1914 Brasier ??
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6029/6004381171_9ce26cf7a7.jpg
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12 Febbraio 2013, 15:49
Almost certainly a Minerva, I'd say. A small 18CV - DD or GG.
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12 Febbraio 2013, 07:50
Are you sure that is the radiator cap and not something else behind the car?


editor: I didn't walk around the car to check, but as I see no other radiator cap I launched this theory... feel free to kill it ;-)
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12 Febbraio 2013, 07:02
1913/14 Mors....
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12 Febbraio 2013, 05:58
Flutes on the bonnet suggest Vauxhall, and artillery wheels suggest 1905-1009
Stuart
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