[harit]

Originally Posted by harit

.........Below are 2 pictures of a Hispano-Suiza. I know nothing about this car, the black Studebaker in the background suggests a possibility of this being an India car. Maybe Karpurthala? Please suggest, and can someone post a picture of the Kapurthala Hispano?.........Cheers harit

This car came back to haunt me. Now I am 95% sure that this is the Kapurthala car. But where is she now? This car has not surfaced, and could not vanish into this air. I somehow sense that she is abroad, and hidden.

Cheers harit

[harit]

Originally Posted by harit

Now I am 95% sure that this is the Kapurthala car.
Cheers harit

95% has gone up to 99%. And the info I have is that she is still here in India. imposing car.

Cheers harit

[KPS]

Originally Posted by harit

95% has gone up to 99%. And the info I have is that she is still here in India. imposing car.
Cheers harit

Thanks Harit for this information. It is always nice to know when such wonderful part of Indian heritage remains in India and not carted away abroad. I do hope at some time we get to see pictures of the car in one of the rallies.

[travancore]

Originally Posted by KPS

Thanks Harit for this information. It is always nice to know when such wonderful part of Indian heritage remains in India and not carted away abroad. I do hope at some time we get to see pictures of the car in one of the rallies.

The car may have gone "religious" from what I know.

[harit]

Originally Posted by travancore

The car may have gone "religious" from what I know.

The was religious till she sinned by not coming to me when she was on sale more than 30 years ago. Now safe with her custodian.

Cheers harit

[911er]

Originally Posted by speedy

some Alwar Hispano-Suiza's. they had four totally. i managed to find pictures of three, the other one i have to search for. ALWAR 3 was a special hunting car with the big lights.

I saw one of these cars at Auto World - in Pranlal Bhogilal's collection.

[Boybentley]

Originally Posted by harit

95% has gone up to 99%. And the info I have is that she is still here in India. imposing car.

Cheers harit

I found this picture at the Gallica site.
It was taken in Paris in 1934 and showing the Maharajah of Kapurthala with what I believe the same Hispano in the background.

[karlosdeville]

Here's one for updating records - Chassis number 11268, the 1925 Hispano-Suiza H6B delivered to the Maharaja of Mysore with Saoutchik Town car coachwork. Probably the only Saoutchik bodied car in India? Looked superb after a recent restoration.

In period with wheel discs and probably a single tone dark colour, making the car look more formal. Note the double blade bumpers gave way for triple blade units somewhere along the way.

[travancore]

Originally Posted by karlosdeville

Here's one for updating records - Chassis number 11268, the 1925 Hispano-Suiza H6B delivered to the Maharaja of Mysore with Saoutchik Town car coachwork. Probably the only Saoutchik bodied car in India? Looked superb after a recent restoration.

In period with wheel discs and probably a single tone dark colour, making the car look more formal. Note the double blade bumpers gave way for triple blade units somewhere along the way.
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And the distinctive chrome strip around the waistline disappeared as well!

[travancore]

Originally Posted by karlosdeville

Here's one for updating records - Chassis number 11268, the 1925 Hispano-Suiza H6B delivered to the Maharaja of Mysore with Saoutchik Town car coachwork. Probably the only Saoutchik bodied car in India?
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courtesy: "Jacques Saoutchik, Maître Carrossier" by Perter Larsen and Ben Erickson.

Here is a Saoutchik catalogue page for a very similar body.

[karlosdeville]

Chanced upon this image of what is likely to be the Kapurthala Hispano we've been hearing of in folklore

[travancore]

Originally Posted by karlosdeville

Chanced upon this image of what is likely to be the Kapurthala Hispano we've been hearing of in folklore

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Good find Karl!

I am inclined to say this is the Kapurtala car. Harit had posted some pics before:

http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/pre-wa...ml#post2474574





Many similarities, including the delamination on the windshield

[travancore]

The ex-Nanpara H6B ("Kelawalla" car) seems to be in much better nick.

courtesy: http://www.spearswms.com/blog/sudhir...s#.VjqSererTIU

[travancore]

The lovely Alwar Hispano-Suiza H6C Boulogne as it left the coachbuilder. Luckily it survives.

I had always doubted the white tyres on the Danbury Mint 1/24 scale model of the car - it now appears to be authentic. They got the colour wrong though! The car was in two shades of blue.

A new one for me - "Lucidus" headlamps. Guess Grebels and Marchals were not bespoke enough for H.H. Alwar.

courtesy Dalton Watson.

[shyml]

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What a lovely car. Why would anyone part with it and sell abroad?
I too was ignorant of Lucidus . Looked it up and found nothing. Its even more elusive than Willocq & Bottin.
Amer Ahmad