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PAGE" is internationally the most
visited 'page' on the site. We receive numerous e-mails from historians
and motoring enthusiasts from all over the world with the request to
identify vehicles from old photographs. We can help with identification
of Classic cars because most of us are old enough to remember them as
new, and owning Vintage or Veteran vehicles, many of us, and/or our
associates, are also specialists in own make or type of vehicle -
These Help Pages are therefore devoted to some of the interesting enquiries
received, and information that we have provided. While page is
being built, enquiries are in received order, - when completed, cars are in year order:
Page 77 below relates to enquiries received
during
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:  1907
Darracq Grand Prix Car
Fascinating photo taken Easter 1910
received from Mike Statham, part of the Research Team at the Friends of
Insole Court, formerly Ely Court, Llandaff, near Cardiff in Wales.
Could we identify make of the car, for them to try and identify driver.
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Registration is D 2578, which is Kent CC 1907. I had the feeling that the car was a cca
1907 Darracq GP. Algernon Lee Guinness drove a very similar car in the
1908 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy Race. Any specific connection
with the Insole family??
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1910
Rolls Royce Silver Ghost
Fascinating photo taken January 1912
received from Mike Statham, part of the Research Team at the Friends of
Insole Court, formerly Ely Court, Llandaff, near Cardiff in Wales.
Could we identify car.
-- Rolls Royce,
so we turned to Tom Clark expert on Rolls Royce histories. He confirmed
this was a cca 1910 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost, chassis 1280, body by
Arthur Mulliner Cabriolet, owned new by G F Insole, registered LB
4471. It was scrapped in 1930. It
seems Insoles had SIX Rollses.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1917
Model T Ford Touring
Number of interesting photos sent to us by
Andrew Kostin from Moscow (Russia) who
is a collector of old photos and who has a website devoted to this
subject at http://antique-photos.com/en/. Can we identify this car in
Argentina?
-- An
interesting group of vehicles comprising tourers, roadsters and
commercial vans, all apparently of the same make, including some horse
carts? From the line-up and flags, looks like some sort of a race? The
front vehicle is a cca
1917 Model T Ford Touring
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1924
Overland 91 Touring
Number of interesting photos sent to us by
Andrew Kostin from Moscow (Russia) who
is a collector of old photos and who has a website devoted to this
subject at http://antique-photos.com/en/. Can we identify this car in
Argentina?
-- Wording
on the photo suggests "Sweet rest after a pleasant stroll along
the Municipal Spa". Perhaps Santa Fe, Rio Negro or one of the many
others?? No external door handles, and with door 'caps' back and
front, this car is American cca
1924/5 Overland 91 Touring.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:Possibly
1924 Buick 6 45 Touring
Number of interesting photos sent to us by
Andrew Kostin from Moscow (Russia) who is a collector of old photos and who has a website devoted to this
subject at http://antique-photos.com/en/. Can we identify the vehicle
in this photo from China?
-- Photo of
WW1 veteran on a tourist trip to China, mid 1930. Accessory top, and
not much of the rest of the car is visible. Taking ID from central hole
in skirt and from the type of windscreen with bulby bits mid and top,
poss c
1924 Buick 6 45 Touring.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1925
Studebaker Duplex Phaeton
Number of interesting photos sent to us by
Andrew Kostin from Moscow (Russia) who
is a collector of old photos and who has a website devoted to this
subject at http://antique-photos.com/en/. Can we identify this car in
Argentina?
-- Although
most of the car is hidden, our Mark Dawber suggested a cca
1925'6 Studebaker Special Six. These
cars were available with Duplex Phaeton bodies where the roof was
inspired by the California Top hardtop as manufactured by the F D Gould
Company.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1926 Buick Master Six Sedan
Small and blurry photo sent to us by
Anthony Sparling (UK) for
whom we have identified cars in the past. Could we help with this photo
of car belonging Great Grand Uncle, Charles Pickering Hayley who who
had this one until he died in 1934.
-- Please
scan your photos at best definition possible as it is the detail that
provides the identification. Many cars had very similar coachwork and
swage lines. Possibly has a corrugated bonnet. Our Mark Dawber
thinks it is cca 1926 Buick Master Six Sedan.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1928
Ford Model A Fordoor Sedan
Number of interesting photos sent to us by
Andrew Kostin from Moscow (Russia) who
is a collector of old photos and who has a website devoted to this
subject at http://antique-photos.com/en/. Can we identify this car in
Argentina?
-- I had to
be told by Mark Dawber that this is a
cca 1928 Ford Model A Fordoor Sedan,
body by Briggs. I had not noticed previously the unique pattern of the
very few spokes of the wire wheels where three seem to become one in
the middle. Learn something eve....
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1929
Mercedes
Mannheim Limousine
Number of interesting photos sent to us by
Andrew Kostin from Moscow (Russia) who
is a collector of old photos and who has a website devoted to this
subject at http://antique-photos.com/en/. Can we identify this car in
USSR?
-- A
military student from the Interior Security (post-NKVD) High School
posing by a magnificent cca
1929 Mercedes Mannheim 15'75 Limousine.
Part of the W10 range, the 370, a design by Ferdinand
Porsche. Very interesting wheel detaching
mechanism.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: c1930
Graham Paige Sedan
Number of interesting photos sent to us by
Andrew Kostin from Moscow (Russia) who
is a collector of old photos and who has a website devoted to this
subject at http://antique-photos.com/en/. Can we identify this car in
Argentina?
-- I
thought this was from the Chevrolet group of cars but our Mark Dawber
is quite convinced this is a Graham
Paige or Graham, either from 1929 or
1930, on name company changeover. If it is 1929, it is a Graham-Paige
621, if 1930 it is a a Graham possibly 822.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1930
FIAT 514 Two Door Berlina
Number of interesting photos sent to us by
Andrew Kostin from Moscow (Russia) who
is a collector of old photos and who has a website devoted to this
subject at http://antique-photos.com/en/. Can we identify this car in
Argentina?
-- Lovely
backdrop of mountain, railway track and low lying snow. No train coming
as chap is on the track! This car is a quite a long way from
home. Made in Torino in the north west of Italy this is a cca
1930 FIAT 514 Two Door Berlina,
1448cc, 28hp, & good for 80 KPH.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1931
Rover 10'25 Saloon
Cinema screen grab from an Italian film "Il
Piacere" (The Pleasure) made in 1986 where the
cars are being investigated by IMCDB. Film is about early 1930s
Italy where a kinky elderly aristocrat has a romp with the daughter of
his late lover with whom he made erotic videos.... --
Despite it being an Italian film, the car is British, made in Coventry.
This is a cca 1931 Rover 10'25 Saloon, PSC body. The headlamp crossbar
which carries the horn has on this car been reversed so is hanging down.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1935
Steyr 100 Kabriolet
Number of interesting photos sent to us by
Andrew Kostin from Moscow (Russia) who
is a collector of old photos and who has a website devoted to this
subject at http://antique-photos.com/en/. Can we identify this car in
USSR?
-- The
photo is tagged "USSR Captured German Vehicle". Our friend
Raoul Rainer advised not German but Austrian. The identification
features are the single handle on the bonnet hinge, two pads on
window, no louvres, so this is a cca
1935 Steyr 100 Kabriolet.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1935
Reanult Vivaquatre Berline
Number of interesting photos sent to us by
Andrew Kostin from Moscow (Russia) who
is a collector of old photos and who has a website devoted to this
subject at http://antique-photos.com/en/. Can we identify this car in
Romania?
-- Looks
very French and has four large louvers along the bonnet. There
are no side lamps on the wings and there appears to be only one
windscreen wiper. There is also a longish nameplate on the bumper which
suggests this is a cca
1935 Reanult Vivaquatre Berline.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1936
BMW 326 Cabriolet
Number of interesting photos sent to us by
Andrew Kostin from Moscow (Russia) who
is a collector of old photos and who has a website devoted to this
subject at http://antique-photos.com/en/. Can we identify this car in
USSR?
-- Photo is
from the USSR but the car has a "D" on the back suggesting
this is a car confiscated by the Russian Army from the Germans. Built
in Germany between 1936-41 , and later by the Soviets post 1945, this
is a cca
1936 BMW 326 Cabriolet, possibly
the four door.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1937
Talbot 110 Sports Tourer
Cinema screen grab from an Indian black
& white film "Kie Kahar" made in 1968 where the
cars are being investigated by IMCDB. Film is about a young man who
finds difficulty in balancing his family values with his modern
ambitions.. --
This is a British car designed by a Swiss engineer George Roesch
and looks like a cca
1937 Talbot 110 Sports Tourer. However
our Mark Dawber recons the photo is is distorted and from the bonnet
louvres and windscreen the car is the smaller Talbot 10
Tourer.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1937
M1 Limousine
Number of interesting photos sent to us by
Andrew Kostin from Moscow (Russia) who
is a collector of old photos and who has a website devoted to this
subject at http://antique-photos.com/en/. Can we identify this car in
USSR?
-- Photo
taken in the USSR and we thought car was German Ford Rheinland. Later
came to light that it is a Russian made cca
1937 M-1 (Molotov -1) made under licence in Gorky by company
later renamed GAZ, based on
Ford Model B. Ford licence started 1929.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1937 ZIS 101 Four Door Sedan
Number of interesting photos sent to us by
Andrew Kostin from Moscow (Russia) who
is a collector of old photos and who has a website devoted to this
subject at http://antique-photos.com/en/. Can we identify this car in
USSR?
-- An
American looking car made in Moscow by "Factory Named
Stalin". This is a cca
1937 ZIS 101 Four Door Sedan. Car was
inspired by Buick of the time and had a 5.8L straight 8 90hp engine,
auto gearbox with torque converter, with top speed of 71mph/115kph.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1937
Hanomag Rekord Limousine
Number of photos sent to us by Przemyslaw Lis (Poland)
"and go ahead for help in
deciphering". --
This is a German car but not the Mercedes whose radiator it carries.
Made by the Hannoversche Maschinenbau
factory who made locomotives, tractors and military vehicles. Unusual
body but it is a cca
1937 Hanomag Rekord, Limousine, made
1937'8, according Werner. Four flap louvres, three windows each side
but an opening boot lid. Spare may have had a cover. Wrong small
headlamps.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1939
Buick 40 Special Sedan
Number of interesting photos sent to us by
Andrew Kostin from Moscow (Russia) who
is a collector of old photos and who has a website devoted to this
subject at http://antique-photos.com/en/. Can we identify this car in
USSR?
-- Seems
the girl is wearing a smart uniform with a shoulder-strap belt and
packing a pistol and, interestingly, an American car. Also interesting
is this is a cca
1939 Buick 40 Special Sedan and it was
the Buick that was used as the model for the 1936 ZIS
limousines.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1940 Ford DeLuxe Fordor Sedan
Number of interesting photos sent to us by
Andrew Kostin from Moscow (Russia) who
is a collector of old photos and who has a website devoted to this
subject at http://antique-photos.com/en/. Can we identify this car in
Argentina?
-- An
American looking car made in America. Although Ford had an Argentinean
plant, this stopped manufacture in 1939 at outbreak od WW2, not to
restart commercials until 1957. From shape of grill for one year only
this is c1940
Ford DeLuxe Fordor Sedan.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1956
Bogward Isabella Saloon
Number of interesting photos sent to us by
Andrew Kostin from Moscow (Russia) who
is a collector of old photos and who has a website devoted to this
subject at http://antique-photos.com/en/. Can we identify this car in
DDR?
-- Made in
West Germany by company which made three wheelers and took over Hansa
and Lloyd companies in the 1920s. The large diamond badge is the
giveaway but for dating the car, the chunky grille and opening below
say this is a cca
1956 Bogward Isabella Saloon.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1956
Wartburg 311'2 Convertible
Number of interesting photos sent to us by
Andrew Kostin from Moscow (Russia) who
is a collector of old photos and who has a website devoted to this
subject at http://antique-photos.com/en/. Can we identify this car in
DDR?
-- One of
the few East European cars that found favour in the West. This was made
in a factory making BMWs under IFA, later Eisenacher Motorenwerk making
the EMW 309 (BMW), later renamed AWE. This is an
unusual luxury cca
1956 Wartburg 311'2 Convertible.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1979 Trabant 601-S
Limousine
Number of interesting photos sent to us by
Andrew Kostin from Moscow (Russia) who
is a collector of old photos and who has a website devoted to this
subject at http://antique-photos.com/en/. Can we identify this car in
DDR?
-- Those of
us who know Eastern Europe will recognise this is one of 3.7 million
'old smokeys' made for about 30 years in Zwickau in the German
Democratic Republic by VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau,
1957 to 1991, a cca
1979 Trabant 601-S De Luxe Limousine.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:Unidentified
c1920 Roadster
Puzzling photo sent to us by Peter Lawford
from New Brunswick (Canada)
asking if we can identify this car? It was very likely taken in either
Australia or New Zealand.
-- Much time
spent pondering over this one by many of our experts and the AACA but
no positive responses. Identification features are armrest, hole in the
skirt by rear wheel, nine rearward slanting lourvres, and windscreen.
Agreed cca 1920, agreed it is American, and that it is
not one of the mainstream manufacturers.
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