Puzzle #1297 - Roy Rogers' TV 1942 Buick Roadmaster "Rolls Royce"

Otto Puzzell · April 25, 2009, 05:00:48 AM

Know what it is?

Please, respond below and let us know what this car was supposed to be, and who it belonged to. .

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Otto Puzzell · May 09, 2009, 05:22:52 AM

Wow - I thought there would be at least one guess by now.

faksta · May 09, 2009, 06:44:51 AM

First guess: American, not production

Otto Puzzell · May 09, 2009, 06:58:14 AM

It was a production car, modified to resemble another production car.

But that is just part of the puzzle...

Ray B. · May 12, 2009, 09:06:47 AM

Any acquaintance with a 1942 Buick?

Otto Puzzell · May 12, 2009, 09:07:36 AM

Yep - there's quite a bit of Buick in there...

Ray B. · May 12, 2009, 11:24:42 AM

A move car?
Movie, I meant

Otto Puzzell · May 12, 2009, 11:57:51 AM

Quote from: Ray B. on May 12, 2009, 11:24:42 AM
A move car?

Showbiz, yes.

Ray B. · September 18, 2009, 07:35:19 PM

If not film, television?

Otto Puzzell · September 19, 2009, 02:34:14 AM

Correct!

Ray B. · September 19, 2009, 03:26:11 AM

American television I guess, which doesn't make it easy for me. At your knowledge, is it a program famous enough to have made it across the Atlantic?

Otto Puzzell · September 19, 2009, 05:42:37 AM

I'm not sure if the show made it overseas, but I know that you know its star, who had a long movie career as well.

This car would not be out of place in one of your current group puzzles.

Ray B. · September 19, 2009, 06:52:23 AM

Quote from: Otto Puzzell on May 09, 2009, 06:58:14 AM
It was a production car, modified to resemble another production car.

But that is just part of the puzzle...

You mean like the bullet-nose Studebaker disquised as a Tucker in the eponym film?

Otto Puzzell · September 19, 2009, 08:20:37 AM

I suppose so, as it's one well-known car pretending to be another. However, I had another of your group puzzles in mind.

Ray B. · September 19, 2009, 11:34:31 AM

You mean "Longhorn Cars" maybe.

Otto Puzzell · September 20, 2009, 03:26:11 AM

Indeed..

Ray B. · September 20, 2009, 05:14:20 AM

Could it have belonged to Chill Wills?
I didn't find no proof. But Chill Wills plays the part of Jim Ed Love in "The Rounders" (both the film and the TV series), the kind of character who would drive a "longhorn car". I found pictures of Wills, in real life, with his own longhorn car (maybe a Nudie, I didn't check).

Otto Puzzell · September 20, 2009, 07:04:03 AM

Nope, not him.

Ray B. · September 20, 2009, 05:20:54 PM

I don't want to try them one after another, but, sticking to the modern times western: Roy Rogers?

Otto Puzzell · September 21, 2009, 03:30:14 AM

Yes!

Locked for you for 24 hours.

Ray B. · September 21, 2009, 03:56:27 AM

Unbelievable! I rather wrote Rogers to eliminate him.
I haven't seen the show but I remember that he used a Jeep called Nellybelle (here with pal Pat Brady at the wheel), but i had heard of no Rolls-Royce.
So, Roy's 1942 Buick Roadmaster (eh, I'd seen right!) was disquised as a Rolls-Royce who appeared on his show.
I saw no evidence that the Buick was Rogers' own car, but I found the pictures.

Otto Puzzell · September 21, 2009, 04:31:58 AM

Nice job!

Allemano · September 21, 2009, 04:38:15 AM

Did I miss something?
How did Ray manage to climb to 387 points?

Ray B. · September 21, 2009, 04:47:17 AM

Group puzzles pay good money.

Allemano · September 21, 2009, 05:01:10 AM

Yes that's true..ordinary puzzles won't pay the rent

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Puzzle #1297 - Roy Rogers' TV 1942 Buick Roadmaster "Rolls Royce"