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Bottom front edge of the front door is different so it isn't a Triumph.🤤

Not a lot to help identifying the car, but possibly a 1931/33 Triumph 9. WAG.

Double declutch = double clutch Estate car = station wagon Dickey seat = rumble seat Joint washer = head gasket Drop head coupe = convertible (The French term is interesting - decapotable - which literally means decapitated.

The 55 to 57 Tbirds were never intended to be high volume cars, but I think Ford overestimated their sales expectations. One criticism of the car was a cramped driving position. Someone near 6 foot 6 (me) didn't fit. Personally, I have never liked having the steering wheel in my lap. I like it as far away as possible, preferable arms length. That was just not going to happen in the 55/57 Tbirds. It does in the square birds.

Originally it was aimed at the North American market. Sir John Black (head of Standard Triumph) was convinced that an inexpensive car that looked like a Rolls Royce would appeal to Americans. Wrong!! Produced for about 5 years, 35,000 made. I knew of 3 in North Vancouver. Beautifully restored one in my area now. The fact that it was called the Mayflower is an indicator of the market it was aimed at. American auto journalist Richard Langworth owned one.

The city of Vancouver, BC ordered about two dozen gully cleaners from a Britsh company in the 1960's. They came attached to Commers equipped with the TS3 diesel. The earsplitting howl of those engines was impossible to ignore. Detroit 2 strikers didn't even come close.

"Out of date" or "traditional"? Other examples are the Lanchester LD10, Triumph Renown and Austin Sheerline. There was resistance in the UK to American "envelope" styling. One of the strongest opponents was Lord Nuffield (Sir William Morris). The post war Morris Minor was designed without his knowledge using envelope styling. When he saw the prototype for the first time he said it looked like a crumpet and stormed out of the showing. The Triumph Renown was mechanically identical to the Standard Vanguard, but looked completely different since the Vanguard was styled in the American idiom.

Commer TS3 "Knocker" horizontal 3 cylinder 6 piston 2 stroke diesel. Trojan. Square 4 2 stroke engine, two spark plugs and two connecting rods.

Based on the Morris 10 series M which provided even more leisurely performance. AMHIK.

I did a search on YT looking for eastern European antique car rallies.

Can't tell you what it is, but I've seen a video of a car like that in either a Czech or Hungarian antique car rally.

I am sticking with Studebaker, but upgrading to a Big 6.

Studebaker Special 6 about 1922.

Absolutely. Leave it alone.

Gravely tractor?

That was why I asked the question the way I did. I was quite sure that someone such as yourself would know of the car. I wasn't thinking about wartime era cars because I didn't know about them.

ZBRASLAV JILOVISTE 2019 at about 5:50.

Much more recent than that, Ed. Shows up three times in a video of a vintage car rally shot in Prague in 2019 as well as at least once in one shot by a different videographer of the same rally. I am a long way from being a Duesenberg expert, but it looks like a Murphy bodied roadster. It is an absolutely stunning car. There also a 1935/36 Auburn convertible sedan in Prague.

I am assuming the answer is yes, but I'll ask it anyway. Are you aware of the Duesenberg in the Czech Republic? Just curious.

The start of First World War was caused by the assassination of the Grand Duke Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie. They were riding in a Graf und Stift Double Phaeton.

WAG. Graf und Stift?

A poorly prepared Sizaire et Naudin was entered in the 1908 New York to Paris race. It didn't make it past the first day. Apparently that unique transmission could not cope with North American roads and failed very quickly.

It doesn't need to be done with propane. Propane naturally carries oil in it which falls out when it converts to a gas. This acts as an upper cylinder lubricant. Combined with the fact that propane has very little carbon in it there will be little to no wear on cylinder walls.

Second from left Pope Hartford?