Old Romanian aristocracy enjoying a Diatto?

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Hey, don't you think this is a nice soft focus Sunday shot? Ken Skuse sent it and writes: "I am an Englishman ex RAF who came to Romania in 1993, and stayed on as an NGO having inherited 100 orphans, and as you see I am still here. I came across a photograph that I could not resist, in the archives of a collector in a town called Bistrita Romania, at least fifteen years ago, a charming group of what was probably the old Romanian aristocracy on a happy day out, before their country and lives descended into hell under communism. It is doubtful that they would have survived. So elegant and care free, it is beautiful in a time gone for ever. Today reading a book 'Comrade Baron' by the acclaimed prize winning author Jaap Scholten about the years of communism here in Romania, he wrote, 'They (an aristocratic family) had a Diatto, an Italian car.' I checked it out on the Internet, found your site and the name of the car in my picture at last."

Editor: thanks for sending this Ken. Hard to say if this is a Diatto. What's visible of the radiator points in the good direction. But we have never seen one with artillery wheels, but hey, some other visitors will know for sure. 

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