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About Quiz # 274: 1929 Citroën C6 (UPDATE VII Two more sectioned Citroëns?)

The quiz about our sectioned car was a tricky one. To be honest we didn’t realize how tricky until the answers started pouring in. Many of you wrote that it was a Citroën (correct!) and that it was a C6 (also correct). Our quiz car comes from a series of private collection photos taken at the 1928 Salon de l’Automobile in Paris. So far so good, but then you also wrote that this sectioned Citroën still exists in the “Musée des Arts et Métiers” also in Paris (well worth a visit!). Of course we checked with the museum but what they have is not the same car! Theirs is a 1931 model C6G. Check the differences with our photo and the one in the museum. Look for instance at the hinges of the rear door; the gear levers, the bonnet and the cooling system. We suspect that the sectioned model from 1928 has been reworked later into the one from 1931. Can anyone confirm this???). So the correct answer should be: Citroën C6 from 1929 displayed at the 22nd Salon de l’Automobile. One of the contestants was spot on… Reg Harris. Congratulations with your third win with which you now join the ranks of our distinguished jury members. But also congratulations to all others who were able to identify such a difficult quiz car. See read more for Reg’s answer plus the list of other correct entrants.

Winner Reg Harris: "The car is a 1929 Citroen C6, big brother to the 4 cylinder C4, with only a longer bonnet (hood) and a couple of "SIX" badges on the radiator grille and the rear wing as the differences. It was the first 6 cylinder made by Citroen and released at the 1928 "Salon de l'Automobile" in Paris, where the photo was taken. The car did not reach production in this exact form, as when sales commenced in the spring of 1929 it became the C6E with one of the differences being a rear mounted fuel tank (not the gravity feed as shown)".

Kit Foster (jury) (with thanks for the Museum photo)
patrick jacob
Uwe Bauer
Maxim
Mike Tebbett (jury)
Henk Oost
jean claude poisson
J.ter Linden

Update by Editor RB: the photo of the third sectioned C6 from Reg Harris (see comment 6)

Friday, 14 May 2010