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16 minutes ago, NPTim said:

If he is the owner, he shouldn’t have nice things. If not, the owner needs to open a dozen bottles with jabba’s nostrils.

He is a judge at that show. The shot was staged. Gave me a chuckle though. 

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6 minutes ago, tous said:

Delage?

 

Yeah. I’m not sure if it is an original or a replica though. There is a company making a beautiful replica of that car. I’m leaning towards original though. 

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1 minute ago, tous said:

What was it with the 1930s coach builders that they had to put a raised seam or fin down the center of every automobile they designed?

Not a fan.

 Many European performance cars of that era had that dorsal ‘fin’. There were race cars and speed record cars where the fin was as high as the car’s roof. I’m sure they had some quaint aerodynamic theory of the era that made it seem like a good idea. Who knows, maybe it was for them.

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Thomas Harrington patented the 'Dorsal Fin' in 1935 and included it on some coach bodies built through to the 1950's when these coaches were built. The letter heading features the Sackville Works, Old Shoreham Rd, Hove, their factory built in 1930 & demolished in 1999

 

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