UPDATE: I think this is a Fiat 501, Series 2, made in the 1920s.
I was testing out my handheld scanner today that mom bought me for Christmas (yeah, I know, about time I did that). It turns out, it works pretty well! I decided to try scanning some of the 1924 images from my grandfather’s trip around Europe and Northern Africa.
My question is, anyone know what type of car this is? I believe it may be a Durant Motor Company 1923 Flint e-55? Grandpa appears to refer to it as the ‘Flea’, but the only two notations I have are kind of blurred.
I don’t know if they imported the car or bought/rent/borrowed it when they got to France, but they had plenty of resources, so it could have been any one of those. The thing I couldn’t match up was the grille — I couldn’t find any grilles that matched the front of the grille below.
And though it might not be a jeep, I suspect traveling around Europe without a full top was as adventurous as any jeep trip would have been (they did have a light, but airy top they could throw over themselves)! They started in France, traveled through Spain and into Northern Africa. They returned by ship to Marseilles, drove throughout Italy, then headed north through Switzerland and into Germany. They ended the trip in France then took a plane to the UK. I have over 400 photos, many of popular landmarks, making their path easier to track. I hope to recreate part of the trip some day.
