Tail Fins on Wheels??

[Georgemia]

Todd's right about French, and I think Brian's pretty close with Panhard, but I do believe that's a Deutsch-Bonnet.

Georgemia, you're also fairly close with a Matra Djet, but that car had disc brakes. However, the Djet was originally the Bonnet Djet, because it was produced by René Bonnet, so there's a definite connection.

You're right!

http://lecruchon2.free.fr/1959_Deuts...net_HBR_09.jpg

[len_newstrum]

Can we have some pictures please Len.

Brian

http://s805.photobucket.com/albums/y...eutsch-Bonnet/

As requested! None of these are my car, although the white one looks identical. And none are as beautiful as the one that Georgemia posted.

The most interesting, to me, are the one with the body suspended over Tee configuration big tube chassis and the one that shows the drive train bay.

To pull the engine you raised the hood to vertical and lifted. No bolts. Then you removed 6 nuts on the front of the engine that held the exhaust pipes on, the starter and generator cables, choke and throttle cable, the spark advance/retard cable (there was a lever on the steering column), 2 spark plug wires, and 4 bolts that connected the engine to the gearbox. Then you simply cradled the engine in your arms, pulled it forward, lifted it out, and carried it into the kitchen table for disassembly. With luck you could get it fixed and back out to the car before your wife returned. The one time that I did this my former wife returned early.

BTW. The D-B isn't the only car not normally found in the US that I've owned; MG-ZB Magnette sedan, Taunus 12-M (early German Ford), Sunbeam Alpine for instance. I'm on my second Beta. My first is now my parts car. It has 300,000 miles on it and was still running well when I retired it. (We don't salt our roads.)

Len