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About Quiz # 249:1941 Peugeot VLV

We expected to receive of lot of answers on last week’s quiz and we were right. As this was a Peugeot that was also shown at Rétromobile, it was not a surprise that a lot of mails came from France. Many of you coughed up the correct answers to our questions, which made our judging task most difficult. Therefore we decided that just mentioning Peugeot VLV was not enough, in full it should be ”Voiture Legère de Ville” or light city car. This still left us with several correct answers but in the end we decided that Mario Montanaro deserved the PreWarCar T-shirt, not only for mentioning that the Peugeot is not a three-wheeler, but has four wheels; for recognizing our quiz car as the one displayed in the Peugeot museum in Sochaux; and that we had modified the photo, because on the side it was marked "POSTES". Congratulations Mario with your second win. See READ MORE for the full list of those who came up with the correct answers. Accidentally this is one of the many Peugeots of which the Peugeot museum has decided that it is surplus to their requirement. On June 14 it will be offered by Artucial at a special Peugeot auction. They are still looking for more entries, so if you have an interesting Peugeot to sell, don’t hesitate to contact the car department of Artcurial or contact Mr. Francois Melcion +33(0)611837894 / e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Winner:
Mario Montanaro: The car is a Peugeot type VLV (voiture lég?re de ville) powered by an electrical 48 volts SAFI engine with 4 batteries of 12 volts, ok for 70/80km, body cabriolet 2 seats, Length/Width 2670/1210mm, front/rear track 1050/330mm,wheelbase 1270mm, weigh 365 kg, 4 wheels, max speed 30/35 km/h, 377 cars built from 1941 to 1945. This particular car is displayed in the Peugeot museum in Sochaux (France), the photo is modified: on the door it is marked "POSTES".

Aurelie Charlot
Bas van Genderen
Bruno Benard
C.J.P. Knip
Conway Stone
Dagfinn Urfjell
Daniel Kosinski
Dave Barron
Francois Duffoire
Jean Claude Poisson
Jukka Heikkinen
Kit Foster (Jurymember)
Luc Ryckaert
Nico Claerhout
Olivier Chabanne
Peter Flanagan
Phil Cordery
Philippe Ogier
Rob Vermeylen
Robert Vierbergen
Roger Fields (Jurymember)
Seiichi Mizuno
Ted Wilmarth
Thomas Rudolf
Tim Olley
Tony Haycock
Willia Forrestall
and
Paul Linster who send us this pic of a very rare 1:43 (tiny) IDEM scale model

Friday, 08 May 2009