Lorraine Detroit ?!? (UPDATE, see below)

This true thirties tourer is a Lorraine Dietrich that was in the ownership of the respected Detroit patent attorney -and keen French car collector- Irving Silverman. He owned the car from sometime in the seventies to maybe halfway the eighties. We would love to know the exact type of car it is and what happened to it later on. Maybe it is still somewhere in the US. In case you think, huh Lorayne-Whatto? Did you know that Lorraine-Dietrich started building V-8 engines (Wright Patterson Air Force Base) for WWI airplanes as from 1917 ! Okay Cadillac started mounting V-8 engines in cars in 1915, but... UPDATE by Baron A. Labitte de Montripier: '...was NOT the first. That was De Dion Bouton in 1908...' (photo collection editor)

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