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About Quiz # 225: de Dion Bouton
This was the kind of quiz car that either you know or don’t know. All answers we received mentioned the correct make: de Dion Bouton. This one was “found” by Bogdan Coconoiu in the Museum "Casa Cuza Voda" in Romania. It’s been there since the 1990s; unfortunately the museum is almost unknown to the public. The de Dion Bouton, a “vis-à-vis” Type G, was made from 1900 to 1901 and this one arrived in Romania at the beginning of the last century. It was restored locally in the 1980s. We realize this was a tough quiz, as only four entrants, Rupert Banner, Sujit Gupta, Frans Vrijaldenhoven and David Manson had most of the little details correct. In the end we decided that Rupert’s answer was the most complete, so the T-shirt is his. Congratulations to Rupert Banner! (With many thanks to Fons Alkemade, expert in early French cars) (photos courtesy Borcea George Ioan).
(RB)
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Friday, 02 May 2008
This was the kind of quiz car that either you know or don’t know. All answers we received mentioned the correct make: de Dion Bouton. This one was “found” by Bogdan Coconoiu in the Museum "Casa Cuza Voda" in Romania. It’s been there since the 1990s; unfortunately the museum is almost unknown to the public. The de Dion Bouton, a “vis-à-vis” Type G, was made from 1900 to 1901 and this one arrived in Romania at the beginning of the last century. It was restored locally in the 1980s. We realize this was a tough quiz, as only four entrants, Rupert Banner, Sujit Gupta, Frans Vrijaldenhoven and David Manson had most of the little details correct. In the end we decided that Rupert’s answer was the most complete, so the T-shirt is his. Congratulations to Rupert Banner! (With many thanks to Fons Alkemade, expert in early French cars) (photos courtesy Borcea George Ioan). (RB)
