Model Boat Mayhem

Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: DickyD on July 11, 2009, 05:04:29 pm

Title: One for the Americans
Post by: DickyD on July 11, 2009, 05:04:29 pm

Can anyone of you really helpful chaps on the other side of the pond tell me if these photographs are of a Buick, and if so can you give me the model and the year.

If it isn't a Buick have you any idea what it is ?

(http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p8/DickyD_photos/IMG_0001.jpg)

(http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p8/DickyD_photos/IMG-1.jpg)

Title: Re: One for the Americans
Post by: Bryan Young on July 11, 2009, 06:18:02 pm

American? Looks more like a Riley or Jowett to me. The bodywork is surely "Barker" who built Daimler bodies. BY.

Title: Re: One for the Americans
Post by: Jonty on July 11, 2009, 06:54:32 pm

  Looks French to me. Delage, Delahaye or Talbot perhaps. Maybe with a body by Chapron or one of the other French coachbuilders.

Title: Re: One for the Americans
Post by: sheerline on July 11, 2009, 07:25:21 pm

Whatever it is, it looks like a very desirable motor car to me... I like its lines, a very nicely styled machine.

Title: Re: One for the Americans
Post by: Bryan Young on July 11, 2009, 07:46:53 pm

Probably not American then? It's the radiator grille that confuses me. But I'd still go for Barker. BY.

Title: Re: One for the Americans
Post by: DickyD on July 11, 2009, 08:32:15 pm

This is a Buick, it looks similar to me apart from the headlights.

Could these have been changed for an export model ?

Title: Re: One for the Americans
Post by: garston1 on July 11, 2009, 08:35:24 pm

Ooooohhh looks pretty damn close!

Title: Re: One for the Americans
Post by: sheerline on July 11, 2009, 11:51:20 pm

Certainly looks like it Dicky! Lamps and spare wheel different but other than that detail, which could be variable depending on the owner, I think you've got it nailed.

Title: Re: One for the Americans
Post by: tobyker on July 11, 2009, 11:52:49 pm

The headlights don't look european.

Title: Re: One for the Americans
Post by: swordfish fairey on July 13, 2009, 10:25:54 pm

Hey Richard, I think this might fit the bill, a 1939 Buick Centuary. Look at the strips on the side of the bonnet. I think someone has changed the headlights in the past..... :-))....Smudge