Fellow fiends:
>With recent postings on the buying and selling of Daimlers and the Vanden
Plas nameplate...
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>1. What does "Vanden Plas" mean (and what language is "vanden plas?")
>2. How do you pronounce it? "Plaaa" or Plasss" or "Plazzz?"
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>And on a related note:
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>Daimler is a family name?
>How did it become a name for a British and a German car?
>How did it become associated with Jaguar?
>What is the relation of any of these cars to the snarky-looking two seater
from decades past, also with the Daimler moniker (and the fluted grill)?
>Who actually *made* that car?
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>Any historians out there?
>
>Will "He don't know to much, don't he" Zehring
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