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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2015 => Topic started by: Paul Jaray on March 25, 2009, 01:31:13 PM
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Here you are 12 cars, possibly easy ones.
They go directly in the expert section, so you have to identify them without any help.
For some of them I know the name, for other the nationality, for other...nothing!
Points will be added at the end.
(sorry if there are reposts)
EDIT: 16/06/2015
Here you are answers & scores:
Se1 - Zoltan Takacs' Wartburg Special 2007 Pnegyesi 2 points
Se2 - BMW Electric Boulevard Pnegyesi 1 point and Guido66 1 point
Se3 - Paul Bailey Jaguar XJS Monaco ImpishGrin 1 point
Se4 - Sealander MK2 1992 Allemano 2 points
Se5- American Coachcraft Marcotte Vision jotage21 1 point
Se6 - Mazda Research America RX-33 1988 Navara 2 points
Se7 - Pup 1949 Tuckeroo 1 point
Se8- John Deere Street-Sweeper RG-T 1997 jotage21 1 point
Se8- Cummfy Banana's Robomow, 2003 Tom_I 1 point
Se9- :-\
Se10- Le Piaf Bi-mobile 1951 ftg3plus4 1 point
Se11- Loopi one-off Wendax 2 points
Se12- Delfosse 1100 1949 Allemano 1 point
ImpishGrin: 1 point
ftg3plus4: 1 point
Tom_I: 1 point
jotage21: 2 points
Allemano: 3 points
Tuckeroo: 1 point
pnegyesi: 3 point
guido66: 1 point
wendax: 2 points
navara: 2 points
I'll leave #9 as a single puzzle.
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#3 - Paul Bailey Jaguar XJS Monaco
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Correct...I knew this was the first to go....
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SE8 is wild!
:serious:
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#10 - Le Piaf (France)
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#10 - Le Piaf (France)
That was not so easy...
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se#8 - 1997 John Deere Street-Sweeper RG-T in Team Penske livery
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American Coachcraft Marcotte Vision (AKA Vision IV)
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se#5 - American Coachcraft Marcotte Vision (AKA Vision IV)
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#10 - Le Piaf (France)
The point will be yours, but can you find also the model name?
se#8 - 1997 John Deere Street-Sweeper RG-T in Team Penske livery
I found this pictures in 2 places with 2 different names...this was one. Have you some support to that?
se#5 - American Coachcraft Marcotte Vision (AKA Vision IV)
Yes!
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#10 - Le Piaf (France)
The point will be yours, but can you find also the model name?
I don't see that it has a model name per se - it's just called a "1951 Le Piaf 175cc minicar" in the book I have.
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se#8 - 1997 John Deere Street-Sweeper RG-T in Team Penske livery
I found this pictures in 2 places with 2 different names...this was one. Have you some support to that?
No, I have only one picture with this ID and no more info.
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#10 - Le Piaf (France)
The point will be yours, but can you find also the model name?
I don't see that it has a model name per se - it's just called a "1951 Le Piaf 175cc minicar" in the book I have.
OK, my book reports that this car was shown at the 1951 Paris Salon as the Le Piaf Bi-mobile (the look wasn't enough Voisinesque...biscooter/bi mobile!)
se#8 - 1997 John Deere Street-Sweeper RG-T in Team Penske livery
I found this pictures in 2 places with 2 different names...this was one. Have you some support to that?
No, I have only one picture with this ID and no more info.
OK if nobody comes up with something different, the point is yours.
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Pro-motion.
Se1- ?
Se2- ?
Se3- Paul Bailey Jaguar XJS Monaco ImpishGrin
Se4- ?
Se5- American Coachcraft Marcotte Vision jotage21
Se6- ?
Se7- ?
Se8- John Deere Street-Sweeper RG-T 1997 jotage21
Se9- ?
Se10- Le Piaf Bi-mobile 1951 ftg3plus4
Se11- ?
Se12- Delfosse 1100 1949 Allemano
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SE1 - Hungarian one-off, most likely self built and has no name.. I don't know if it'll be enough for the asnwer :-\
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SE1 - Hungarian one-off, most likely self built and has no name.. I don't know if it'll be enough for the asnwer :-\
Actually i was looking for something more....
another view:
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SE2: Ihle? (German built amusement park car)
SE7: Pup
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Se2 - I have some technical info about this one and shouldn't be an amusemant park car. Can you provide some detail for this Ihle? If they match with my data, I'll write what I know about and declare it solved.
Se7 - See above. Can you provide some proof? I'm asking only because I do not have a name for these, and if you're right I'll post another picture and the info I have.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkNsEH1GD7Q
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All I can say is that car #12 is according to its numberplate probably from North-Rhine-Westphalia in Germany (1948-1956) :-\
Wild guess: Drews?
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I only have the picture. That was my guess too, but couldn't find the same car. If it turns out that you are right, point will be yours (and of the person who will provide the evidence).
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Thanks! Another possible solution would be Gomolzig, but more probably it's not..
Will do some own research....
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#12 VW Delfosse I 1100 from 1949 (1952?), built by Mr. Curt Delfosse from Düsseldorf/Germany. He was a resident boat builder and seemingly
adapted his experience into his own car design.
Quote: "Curt Delfosse (1912–1998) war ein Sohn des Kölner Automobil- und Flugzeug-Pioniers Arthur Delfosse, der u.a. in den 1920er Jahren in den heutigen (denkmalgeschützten) Rheinland-Hallen in Köln-Ehrenfeld Automobile der Marke Helios produzierte. An der TH Stuttgart examinierter Ingenieur, betrieb Curt Delfosse im Düsseldorfer Hafen eine Werft, wo er neben VW-betriebenen Booten auch kleine Rennwagen und Karosserien für sich selbst und Kunden baute. Anfang der 1950er Jahre wanderte er nach Argentinien und später nach Kalifornien aus, wo er u.a. weiterhin Rennwagen konstruierte und auch selbst einsetzte."
Curt Delfosse was the son of Arthur Delfosse an automotive and aviation pioneer from Cologne/Germany. (...)
He owned a little boatyard at the river Rhine in the near of Düsseldorf where he built VW engined boats and small numbered series of VW engined sportscars. For his own pleasure and for clients...
Later he emigrated to Argentinia and finally to California where he continued constructing racing cars and drived them as well!
You can read more about him on a well known source.
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:o
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Time for some clues:
#1 - Hungarian one off (by Arunas). I don't know anything about this.
#2 - It is an electric (real) car.
#4 - Not only a road-going car...
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Two points for each (next) identification.
Se1 - Hungarian one off (by Arunas). I don't know anything about this
Se2 - It is an electric (real) car. Probably the Ihle (Jhle) trail is good, but I don't have a name for this.
Se3 - Paul Bailey Jaguar XJS Monaco ImpishGrin
Se4 - Not only a road-going car, also water-going...
Se5- American Coachcraft Marcotte Vision jotage21
Se6 - ???
Se7 - ???
Se8- John Deere Street-Sweeper RG-T 1997 jotage21
Se9- ???
Se10- Le Piaf Bi-mobile 1951 ftg3plus4
Se11- ???
Se12- Delfosse 1100 1949 Allemano
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The car #6. I just found the bigger picture of this mystery but still not the name. The car is probably related to Porsche 928. PJ, do you have anything more? Does this car have the name?
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Great picture!
I do not have any info about...I believe it's just a mock-up, but the logo looks terribly familiar and I thought somebody could be able to identify it... :-\
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SE1 was shown at the 2007 Luxury Show in Budapest. I am trying to track down what it was as I wasn't there
(http://www.reklam-guru.hu/autok/slides/1107.jpg)
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Se7: Pup
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Since you are the 2nd telling that it's a Pup I looked for some proof and it turned out that you are right, this is indeed the 1949 version of the Pup, as written in the description of it in the standard Catalog of American cars.
Tuckeroo gets the point.
About #1 I hope someon will find it!
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So.. what are we going to do with this group puzzle, as ~half of those puzzles are even true mysteries for the author?...
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I suggest to remain calm, and wait for the time to pass by. ;)
Se1 - ??? (Hungarian one off (by Arunas). I don't know anything about this) 2 points
Se2 - ??? (It is an electric (real) car. Probably the Ihle (Jhle) trail is good, but I don't have a name for this.) 2 points
Se3 - Paul Bailey Jaguar XJS Monaco ImpishGrin 1 point
Se4 - ??? (Not only a road-going car, also water-going...) 2 points
Se5- American Coachcraft Marcotte Vision jotage21 1 point
Se6 - ??? 2 points
Se7 - Pup 1949 Tuckeroo 1 point
Se8- John Deere Street-Sweeper RG-T 1997 jotage21 1 point
Se9- ??? 2 points
Se10- Le Piaf Bi-mobile 1951 ftg3plus4 1 point
Se11- ??? 2 points
Se12- Delfosse 1100 1949 Allemano 1 point
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I suggest to remain calm, and wait for the time to pass by. ;)
...well, not the best idea :/
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I suggest to remain calm, and wait for the time to pass by. ;)
...well, not the best idea :/
Always open to suggestions.
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I think No4 is home made. Here's a rear view:
(http://www.countryboystoys.co.nz/images2004/amphibious.jpg)
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Folks, we will have some problems here.
No1, aka Hungarian "beauty" is a true mystery: it was shown at the 2007 Luxury Auto Show in Budapest. The organizers said that the editorial office of Auto2 magazine exhibited the car. So I asked them. The editors said no, it was not them, the car just stood there unattended so they asked the organizers, won't they mind if they push it to their stand. There was no objection, so the car ended up on the Auto2 stand. as a crowd puller, but they got no idea about its origins.
How it got to the Show? A truck came and unloaded the car, saying he's got instructions to do so. At the end of the Show he transported the car away, but no one asked him who's his client.
I asked the site owner where No4 is featued but to no avail.
Hmmm.....
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It's a cool story, and a great way to make a lot of rumor about a car... I wonder if it was done on pourpose..
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#4 is homemade, but obviousely wears the name Sealander MK2 (1992)
and I guess it's the same car as shown here: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=9755.0
Made by T & M Roycroft from New Sealand. :D This prototype was built 1992 and has a 1.8 Subaru 4x4 running gear and a patented wheel fold up system.
It does normal speeds on the road and will easily do 20 knots on the water. It has a water jet.
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That is what I meant...
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That's why it looked so familiar
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I've suspected Otto's Maki would may have something to do with his "Grote Puzzle" as well, so I searched the possible sources. Then, it wasn't that difficult to find.
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Is #9 a Pininfarina design?
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I have no clue on the missing ones...#9 in particular give me a strond deja-vu each time (and that 3rd lamp in the front...) but still can't match it with a name... :-\
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No2 reminds me of the BMW electric, which was recently solved. I have found some 1940s ads from Boulevard Machine Works for children playground equipment.
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That's it!
I found out that there were 3 different models and my source about this one has got no-name but all the rest matches!
Well done...only the model name is missing now.
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??? I had discarded this one, because you mentioned earlier that you didn't know it's name. It must be the Electricar Cutie Junior, then
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??? I had discarded this one, because you mentioned earlier that you didn't know it's name. It must be the Electricar Cutie Junior, then
You are right:
earlier I didn't know its name.
When I found the other pic of the B.M.W. I saw many details I was not able to see in my other pics of the same car.
The side, the hood, the windshield are the same and the article where I took this one reports that the whole body can lift to inspect the mechanics...another pic of the B.M.W. shows just the same: the car with the body up. The same article reports that the car can be equipped with more than 1 motor, just like the 3 B.M.W. models.
The Cutie Junior had 1 engine, this one more than 1.
Still looking for the model name.
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Maybe just Cutie then?
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The Cutie had a 2 engines, this one 4, one for each wheel.
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Boulevard?
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Of course!
I'm happy you found it, now I can give you both 1 point for this!
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More pics of the odd Delfosse 1100:
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Nice pics!
Let's try to solve this.
Two points for each (next) identification.
Se1 - ??? Hungarian one off shown at the 2007 Luxury Show in Budapest (tanks to Arunas and Pnegyesi).
Se2 - BMW Electric Boulevard Pnegyesi 1 point and Guido66 1 point
Se3 - Paul Bailey Jaguar XJS Monaco ImpishGrin 1 point
Se4 - Sealander MK2 1992 Allemano 2 points
Se5- American Coachcraft Marcotte Vision jotage21 1 point
Se6 - ??? 2 points
Se7 - Pup 1949 Tuckeroo 1 point
Se8- John Deere Street-Sweeper RG-T 1997 jotage21 1 point
Se9- ??? 2 points
Se10- Le Piaf Bi-mobile 1951 ftg3plus4 1 point
Se11- Loopi one-off Wendax 2 points
Se12- Delfosse 1100 1949 Allemano 1 point
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The car #6. I just found the bigger picture of this mystery but still not the name. The car is probably related to Porsche 928. PJ, do you have anything more? Does this car have the name?
Maybe some of our logo-experts know it? I never came across this...thing.
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#11 is Loopi, a one-off built by the father of the current owner, Jan Loop. It was built in the 1950s, based on a Goggomobil 400 saloon. I saw the car myself at the Oldtimertreffen Rendsburg in Northern Germany in 2009.
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Wendax, you made my day!
More than 1 year and a half without the slightest clue and you provide a name, a builder a date and a base!!!
I deeply believe you, but is there any other proof? I was sure it was a recent creation...those lights, the radiator....everything seems too new for the 50s!
You just found one of the darkest unsolved ones!
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Here's Loopi at a 2008 Goggomobil meeting
(http://www.glasclub.de/norden/anglasen08/n208_rendsburg_goggo6g.jpg)
Wendax is so right - congratulations
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another proof:
Pünktlich (na ja, so ziemlich pünktlich) um 11 Uhr starteten in Brokenlande bei strahlendem Sonnenschein 8 Goggos, 3 BMW 1600 GT's, ein Isar, ein 1204, eine 1700er Limousine und ein Loopi, ein Eigenbau auf Goggo-Basis aus den 50er-Jahren (siehe unten), in Richtung Wildpark Eekholt.
~ while the sun was shining brightly and just in time we left Brokenlande at 11 o'clock with 8 Goggos, 3 BMW 1600 GTs, one Isar, one 1204, one 1700 Sedan and a Loopi, a Goggo based selfbuilt car from the fifities. (photo below) toward Wildpark Eekholt...
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I would doubt the date of creation myself, if the current appearance of Loopi is the judgement point. At least I would think, there was a big renovation in the Seventies, the first wave of nostalgia. Next week, I must have a look if I can find any notes I perhaps made in Rendsburg a year ago. Right now I just remembered the car, the name and the base. The date I took from the quoted article in the net.
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Wendax, it's more than enough! It was just a thought...it seems to new for being completed in the 50s, but those projects are often updated. You give an hope to all these poor black-holers!
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You give an hope to all these poor black-holers!
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Well, I had a look on the notes I made in Rendsburg. They tell me that the base is a Goggomobil T 400 from 1958, but that no creation date of Loopi was stated. So I would favor sometime in the 1970s, too.
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Is that #1 called Borbála?
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No, Borbála was altogether different. I have an article on that somewhere, I'll try to dig it out
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That would be cool. Having said that, I found some pictures of the car where the name was mentioned, although the person was not sure of it.
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Could number 1 be called Alma?
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No, but I will see the creator of Borbála on Wednesday and then I'll know whether No1 is a Borbála or not
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Could number 1 be called Alma?
Alma was recently posted by the creator of this thread.
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Let's create some order here :)
This thread was created by PJ, not me
I have recently posted the Alma as a puzzle.
The Hungarian car, which is depicted here is definitely not an Alma. And it is not a Borbála either. I now have plenty of pictures on the Borbála which I will intend to publish soon
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Let's create some order here :)
This thread was created by PJ, not me
I have recently posted the Alma as a puzzle.
The Hungarian car, which is depicted here is definitely not an Alma. And it is not a Borbála either. I now have plenty of pictures on the Borbála which I will intend to publish soon
Me bad.
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A nice brochure of #10, the Bimobile Piaf, with closed top
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Thank you!
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Mazda RX-33 from 1988, made in North America by MRA. ( Mazda Research America)
I will post a picture in the other thread.
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and #6 is gone! :thumbsup:
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A rear view and the badge of Loopi:
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Se6 - ??? 2 points
1988 RX-33 by MRA
Edit: It's already solved by Navara
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Now this one has surfaced again, I must say I really don't think that the identification of #8 is right.
I have found the web page where somebody describes it as a 1997 John Deere street sweeper in Team Penske livery, but I think that was meant as a joke.
I still can't find out exactly what it is, but it has a UK registration number from 1974/75. I have checked on the DVLA website, and it is registered as a Volkswagen, manufactured 1970, first registered 8 August 1974, with engine capacity 3500 cc and coloured yellow. Unfortunately there are no other useful details.
Maybe someone has some more information. I have drawn a blank on it, but I am fairly sure it's not a John Deere street sweeper!
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I have it in my HDD as John Deere Street-Sweeper R-GT 1997
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Now this one has surfaced again, I must say I really don't think that the identification of #8 is right.
I have found the web page where somebody describes it as a 1997 John Deere street sweeper in Team Penske livery, but I think that was meant as a joke.
I still can't find out exactly what it is, but it has a UK registration number from 1974/75. I have checked on the DVLA website, and it is registered as a Volkswagen, manufactured 1970, first registered 8 August 1974, with engine capacity 3500 cc and coloured yellow. Unfortunately there are no other useful details.
Maybe someone has some more information. I have drawn a blank on it, but I am fairly sure it's not a John Deere street sweeper!
I can't believe such a strange vehicle is still obscure to us...and it goes to some kind of meetings too!
I'm not sure it's a street sweeper (there should be others like that) and "John Deere" sounds like a joke to me too...
It was one of the names I had, I hope someone will have the final answer to that too.
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Regarding No1. Today I received some leads on this - hopefully I will know more in the next few days.
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Whooooaa!
:applause:
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The car was built by Zoltan Takacs in the small village of Bana. He spent 7 years developing and fine-tuning it. It was based on a Wartburg chassis. He planned to install a Renault 12 engine, but eventually settled on a Dacia engine.
The car was shown at the 2007 Budapest Luxury Auto Show (I don't know why the organisers couldn't remember him). Unfortunately, like many, many others before him, he was shunned by the Transportation Authority and couldn't register the car. He still has very bitter memories about this whole thing.
The car is still around
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That's very interesting Pal :thumbsup:
Mr Takacs certainly appears to have put a tremendous amount of work into this project and it must be very disheartening to be turned away by the authorities. :(
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is the purple car by zoltan called the shark ?
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He did not give me any name, I have yet to talk to the current owner. Soon
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I'm going to split this puzzle, declare it solved and award your points. I'll leave the missing one in a stand-alone puzzle.
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Here are the scores:
Se1 - Zoltan Takacs' Wartburg Special 2007 Pnegyesi 2 points
Se2 - BMW Electric Boulevard Pnegyesi 1 point and Guido66 1 point
Se3 - Paul Bailey Jaguar XJS Monaco ImpishGrin 1 point
Se4 - Sealander MK2 1992 Allemano 2 points
Se5- American Coachcraft Marcotte Vision jotage21 1 point
Se6 - Mazda Research America RX-33 1988 Navara 2 points
Se7 - Pup 1949 Tuckeroo 1 point
Se8- John Deere Street-Sweeper RG-T 1997 jotage21 1 point
Se9- :-\
Se10- Le Piaf Bi-mobile 1951 ftg3plus4 1 point
Se11- Loopi one-off Wendax 2 points
Se12- Delfosse 1100 1949 Allemano 1 point
ImpishGrin: 1 point
ftg3plus4: 1 point
jotage21: 2 points
Allemano: 3 points
Tuckeroo: 1 point
pnegyesi: 3 point
guido66: 1 point
wendax: 2 points
navara: 2 points
I'll leave #9 as a single puzzle.
In case #8 was not identified correctly, I'll award the points to the correct answer.
Great detective work everybody...there were some real hard ones! :applause: :applause:
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A rear view of Zoltan Takacs' creation:
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As I said the Zoltan Takacs' car is still around. Finally I got hold of the current owner who added new leather seat covers, tidied up the engine and refurbished the whole car
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Nice! :thumbsup:
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bump.
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Here are the scores:
Se1 - Zoltan Takacs' Wartburg Special 2007 Pnegyesi 2 points
Se2 - BMW Electric Boulevard Pnegyesi 1 point and Guido66 1 point
Se3 - Paul Bailey Jaguar XJS Monaco ImpishGrin 1 point
Se4 - Sealander MK2 1992 Allemano 2 points
Se5- American Coachcraft Marcotte Vision jotage21 1 point
Se6 - Mazda Research America RX-33 1988 Navara 2 points
Se7 - Pup 1949 Tuckeroo 1 point
Se8- John Deere Street-Sweeper RG-T 1997 jotage21 1 point
Se9- :-\
Se10- Le Piaf Bi-mobile 1951 ftg3plus4 1 point
Se11- Loopi one-off Wendax 2 points
Se12- Delfosse 1100 1949 Allemano 1 point
ImpishGrin: 1 point
ftg3plus4: 1 point
jotage21: 2 points
Allemano: 3 points
Tuckeroo: 1 point
pnegyesi: 3 point
guido66: 1 point
wendax: 2 points
navara: 2 points
I'll leave #9 as a single puzzle.
In case #8 was not identified correctly, I'll award the points to the correct answer.
Great detective work everybody...there were some real hard ones! :applause: :applause:
I finally found all there is to know about #8.
jotage21 will keep his point but another one is for the correct answer.
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Is the last one #9 a Strother MacMinn design?
He published many sketched that have rather the same style of the puzzle pic.
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The missing one I discovered is #8... still no clue about 9.
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#8. I believe you all know its builder. After I discovered it I just realized the biggest possible clue is the car itself! I won't lock it untill the correct maker and model name will be found.
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So is #8 based on a heavy truck perhaps? The rear wheels suggest that
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Not based on a truck and powered by Rover V8.
It's not based on any other vehicle but there was a vehicle used as a model...
I'll repeat myself: I'm sure you all know its builder...
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Built by Andy Saunders ?
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Not him, but like him he built some 'unconventional' vehicles.
Full name fore the point, no locks ;)
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#8 was built by Edd China of Cummfy Banana Ltd, perhaps best known for making high-speed motorised furniture. It was commissioned by Friendly Robotics, and was intended to be a scaled-up replica of their "Robomow" robotic lawnmower. It seems to have been known as both "Robomow" and "The UFO". It uses the transmission (and registration number) from a VW Type 2 campervan, with, as already said, a Rover 3.5 litre V8 engine.
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:applause: :applause: :applause:
All correct!
I saw some episodes of Wheeler Dealers and Auto Trader, but I've never made the conection between him and the Casual Lofa or the Garden Shed or the Toilet or all the others 'things' on wheels he did...and he held some Guinness World Records too!
As I told you probably you all know him and the shape of the car (a robotic lawnmower) was a big clue.
Thank you Tom_I, six years later, I can move this one (again) to the solved section!
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As I told you probably you all know him
I had never heard of him before, but I guess my car culture is somewhat lacking 8)
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We had him twice here on AP ( http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=9092.msg69745#msg69745
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=15362.msg141867#msg141867 ), but I must confess I didn't know him untill I reached my 'China' folder...looking for him, I realized that he is the same guy in 'Wheeler Dealers', a show I knew (but I'm not a fan of....). Probably he is not that known after all.
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There are very few pictures around of the Robomow. Apparently it was badly damaged when a truck tipped a load of gravel over it by accident. Among other things, this broke the custom-made windscreen, which had cost 4,500 GBP, and the car was not restored.
It went on to become the mechanical base of a vehicle called "Chaise Lunge", built in the form of a large sofa. In May 2007 this set a Guinness World Record for fastest item of motorised furniture, at 92 mph.
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Zoltan Takacs' car is for sale again: