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Bandini

If anyone has access to the book titled Bandini Vehicles, Including - Bandini 1100 (... by Publisher: Hephaestus Books (1993) could they assist me with referencing and information at Bandini Automobili. I am trying to save the article from deletion and the references I have found so far are a bit weak. NealeWellington (talk) 06:36, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Sorry I can't help you with this request directly, but I just wanted to mention a couple more print sources you may want to seek out. The book "ILARIO BANDINI" by Franco Fabbri and Cesare Sangiorgi should have some coverage of the Bandini cars. The Revs Institute has a copy in their library according to WorldCat, maybe someone there can assist you. Also the magazine "Auto d'Epoca" (Vintage Car) had a feature on Ilario Bandini in their December 1988 issue. There are a couple on eBay right now. Good luck to you, I love rescuing/improving car articles with old print sources! Prova MO (talk) 21:43, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

The company article is not at risk of deletion. It needs a rewrite desperately, but it looks like it's getting one. QuicoleJR (talk) 01:13, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks User:Prova_MO for the references, and yes, QuicoleJR, it would be if it had stayed the way it was without any useful referencing. But thanks to both of you it's well on its way back to safety. You have both been very helpful. NealeWellington (talk) 09:39, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

NACS

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We have some illustrations for the various DCFC connectors. Do we have one for the North American Charging Standard available? The article currently doesn't have one. -- 64.229.90.172 (talk) 21:05, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

I didn't see one from a quick search. Somebody can probably use tesla's design patent drawings (USD694188S) to quickly make one, however. IPBilly (talk) 21:57, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks to RickyCourtney (talk · contribs) for creating the new NACS diagram -- 64.229.90.172 (talk) 04:29, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

Elwood Haynes Featured article review

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"Art truck"

Art truck (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) seems like it should be an overview article, much like art bike and art car, instead of being a redirect to Japanese art trucks. Airbrushed trucks in North America, or trucks with paint schemes, lights and bells in Southeast Asia, and other such, would seem to lack coverage. -- (X-Post from WT:TRUCKS as suggested there) -- 67.70.25.80 (talk) 00:41, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

I agree, it would be better to redirect it to the "truck art in south asia" article or to create an overview article for art trucks like there is for art cars, rather than for it to redirect to Dekotora, which is a very specific subculture of art trucks in Japan. TKOIII (talk) 18:10, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

Hoping for help in dating a photo

Quite high-res, please click through.

Identifying the vehicles in this photo would do a lot to set an earliest possible date. I am certain that 1896 is far too early, maybe even off by a decade or more, but I'd like to have something firmer than that to write to the GLAM we sourced it from. - Jmabel | Talk 04:26, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

Lacking any response here, I'll take this to Wikipedia:Reference desk/Miscellaneous. - Jmabel | Talk 02:47, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

It looks circa 1905 to me and certainly later than 1896. The middle car looks like an electric runabout. But I'm not an expert in that era. I can't even identify which particular cars they are, although I can say that they are contemporary with the start of the Model T but are not actually a Model T.  Stepho  talk  04:40, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

The car in the centre of the three parked nose to tail is a Baker Inside Driven Coupe which dates the photo to 1907 at the earliest. I would guess 1896 is the date that the Library was moved to that site, not the date of the photograph. Mighty Antar (talk) 14:26, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

BYD Atto 3

I want to invite you guys to participate in the discussion I opened on the Talk:BYD Atto 3 regarding this article name. This electric car is manufactured in China and sold in the Chinese and Latin American markets as the BYD Yuan Plus but renamed BYD Atto 3 in Europe and Oceania. Also, it should be considered that this vehicle belongs to the nameplate BYD Yuan, with the BYD Yuan Pro as its predecessor. Please fell free to support or oppose the proposed name change. Cheers.--Mariordo (talk) 22:29, 9 August 2023 (UTC)