An Amilcar CG?SSSR! (UPDATE II : Eugene Kansky)

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Now if you know about Amilcars, you may know that keeping these vintage jewels on the road is a labour of love. So keeping a car like that on the road in the former Soviet Republic is something which is really not simple to understand. Still at least one man managed and deserves our deepest respect. See the photos found by Ivan Barentsev of the pick-up that managed to survive. Now the amil-archeologists have the pleasant task to determine which exact type it is. Here is another shot which is showing the real Amilcar 'amateur'. More good news: the car has survived until this day. However not in its kolchoz livery but in a post-Soviet racing disguise. It is showing many Amilcar features but all 'upgrades' make the total hard to judge. So (check this first !) and give us your opinion.

UPDATES (II) came in form Glenn Robb, Detlef Kayser & Ivan Barantsev. Ivan tells the car is in the Letland car museum and that the first owner was factory driver Eugeny Kansky (who know more about him?). Anyway this may fit togehter with the remarks of Glen Robb: The car seems to be a G type and last time I saw it, it was in a car museum in Riga. The story is it ended there with a guy who who worked at Amilcar, Paris, and competed with the car in rallys etc. Detlef adds: "This strange Amilcar has already been treated in the British Newsletter of the Amilcar Register some years ago. There were several discussions about it and it seems to be a G or L chassis. But one should remember that a saloon bodied Amilcar G with a compressor once won its class in the Monte Carlo Rally in 1927 when it started from Königsberg (then still Germany). Could it be that very chassis?"
Updates (I) came in from Jos Cox who claims the engine to be an M-type. Craig Little adds: It's certainly not a CGS as it doesn't have the waisted front to the chassis with out-hung front springs. The front axle and chassis set-up looks typical G series tourer and this is supported (if you'll pardon the pun) by rear cantilever springs which are typical G series and also common to the Larger E type. But the E had a fore and aft drag link and there is no sign of it that I can see. So I'll say it's a G Series even though the hole at the base of the radiator doesn't quite add up. If it's not a G it could possibly be an M.

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