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Re: Whatsthisthen?..Yellow French sports car-pictionary clue!

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Never heard of a Rene bonnet Le Mans................. i take it it was a successfull motor car, damit now i want to google
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A scottish pernod?

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Thanks for the flurry of responses, I thought I was going to have to just have a guess myself!

Yes it is a Rene Bonnet Le Mans. Dug it out from ClassicCarCatalogue. Just click on a year (1963 in this case] and it gives lists of worldwide manufacturers by Country and just picked out Rene Bonnet out of curiosity.

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Eventually morphed into MATRA in particular with the Djet model.

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Hah! Dubonnet, haven't seen any of that in years.
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...bit of Dubonnet Trivia

This 1932 poster

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was by the same graphic artist, A.M. Cassandre, responsible for this classic Art Deco poster of Normandie.

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.....and one from A.M.Cassandre's portfolio for Jim......is that what's known in Radio Circles as a "Valve"?

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Jut have a bucket of water handy if you have an American welder

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.....the random link from Rene Bonnet, to Dubonnet, to A.M. Cassandre, to Normandie, to that excellent video of the fate of the Normandie......whatsthisthen? on the FCF should be on the National Curriculum for its educational value :-D

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From the BBC Report........"Its Bond's Favorite motoring brand and now a new model is to be built in South Wales"......so which model is it?......(picture below...not the new model)....no further clues....(just yet :) )


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NewcastleFalcon wrote:.....the random link from Rene Bonnet, to Dubonnet, to A.M. Cassandre, to Normandie, to that excellent video of the fate of the Normandie......whatsthisthen? on the FCF should be on the National Curriculum for its educational value :-D

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NewcastleFalcon wrote:From the BBC Report........"Its Bond's Favorite motoring brand and now a new model is to be built in South Wales"......so which model is it?....no further clues....(just yet :) )


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