What is this car? - 2 views

[Annie77]

Hi...These two very grainy small photos were found in a book (My Father, Mr. Mercédès) at a thrift store in California. Have searched high and low for the make model and year. Really appreciate your help. The license plate looks like 018-M3 or maybe that's a 6 character plate and the first character is cut off. If possible can you tell by the plate what state or country it would be from? Thanks so much.

 

 

[keiser31]

Renault. Not sure of the year. Looks like 1924.

Edited June 26, 2016 by keiser31 (see edit history)

[nzcarnerd]

Re which model it is, take your pick from here   -   http://voitures.renault.free.fr/   - I think probably an NN.

 

Plate maybe French?? Although after reading this   -   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_France   - maybe not?

Edited July 7, 2016 by nzcarnerd (see edit history)

[Vintman]

Agree, Renault NN pre 1925 as it has a round logo behind which is a horn.   NNs made 1924-1930.

 

Vintman

[Annie77]

Newbie that I am, I had tried to hit reply to the post thru my emails....So, now properly thanking keiser31 and everyone else who is posting here and to (my other posted query). Great links, etc. Thank you all tons. You're my new heroes. Re the license plate....I found this link http://plaque.free.fr/f_rec2e.html

thru http://plaque.free.fr/index-english.html

via http://www.ricksplates.com/links.htm

The first link re "French Registrations between 1901 and 1928" shows examples of plates with the last 2 characters having that same letter/number combination that the Renault model circa 1924 NN has (the "M3" in the grainy sepia photo) so maybe it is a French plate.

 

Annie77