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I know this is a hard one, because I can't bring up a picture, just a rough description.
More then 20 years ago (yes, that long) I saw a very unusual green, little estate on a parking yard. I was very interested in cars then and had some quite books like Roger Gloors "postwar cars", but I haven't seen this one before. Sadly we were trying to catch a very and so I couldn't go any closer.
The car was a very small estate car, quite certainly of european origin, and probably build from somewhere between 1952 to 1960. It had round headlamps and a smooth, ponton-shaped body, similar to a VW 1500 Variant, but even smaller and more distintive. The most outstanding feature was a kind of nose on the front end, similar to the Ford Taunus 12M of 1952 or the Studebaker Champion. But it wasn't a Ford 12M.
1. It was smaller.
2. The "nose" was longer and much more prominent.
3. I think the car didn't have a radiator grille. I could not see from my position if it had a back engine (strange for an estate, but quite possible) or if there just was a small air-inlet insted of a grille.
4. The design was just more avangardistic then the usual 1950s european small car.
5. The bonnet looked rather flat compared to the 12M.
Some years later (more then ten) I saw a rather bad, tiny black-and-white photograph in a car-magazine of this car, although a sedan-version. I couldn't take that magazin along then, nor did it have much information, but it said that the car was a Panhard of the 1950ies.
Of course that would fit the very unusual design, but the problem is that I have checked all my books and many websites to find such a Panhard. Needless to say that I didn't found it, and all the popular models of Panhard look just different.
Any guesses or pictures that might fit this description?
More then 20 years ago (yes, that long) I saw a very unusual green, little estate on a parking yard. I was very interested in cars then and had some quite books like Roger Gloors "postwar cars", but I haven't seen this one before. Sadly we were trying to catch a very and so I couldn't go any closer.
The car was a very small estate car, quite certainly of european origin, and probably build from somewhere between 1952 to 1960. It had round headlamps and a smooth, ponton-shaped body, similar to a VW 1500 Variant, but even smaller and more distintive. The most outstanding feature was a kind of nose on the front end, similar to the Ford Taunus 12M of 1952 or the Studebaker Champion. But it wasn't a Ford 12M.
1. It was smaller.
2. The "nose" was longer and much more prominent.
3. I think the car didn't have a radiator grille. I could not see from my position if it had a back engine (strange for an estate, but quite possible) or if there just was a small air-inlet insted of a grille.
4. The design was just more avangardistic then the usual 1950s european small car.
5. The bonnet looked rather flat compared to the 12M.
Some years later (more then ten) I saw a rather bad, tiny black-and-white photograph in a car-magazine of this car, although a sedan-version. I couldn't take that magazin along then, nor did it have much information, but it said that the car was a Panhard of the 1950ies.
Of course that would fit the very unusual design, but the problem is that I have checked all my books and many websites to find such a Panhard. Needless to say that I didn't found it, and all the popular models of Panhard look just different.
Any guesses or pictures that might fit this description?