Puzzle #101 - Solved! Devrim

[Otto Puzzell]

Know what it is?

Please, respond below and let us know what make and model you think you see here.


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[Tifosi]

Humber Super Snipe?



Dan

[Otto Puzzell]

Happy Thanksgiving, Tifosi!

Not a Humber.

Clue: it's also not a Plymouth.

[Rich]

Toyota Fury III

[Otto Puzzell]

Not a Toyota.

If I were to see with this car in person, I think, I'd like to see if the contrast where the white areas and the dark meat are as pronounced as they appear in this photo. I wonder what the occasion was when this picture was taken? With the crowd around this vehicle, I can almost imagine they were planning on stuffing as many people into it as possible.

[porridgehead]

Thanks for Giving these cars to us. Sometimes they seem to be for the birds, but I'm not one to squawk. I would imagine it's quite a trip to fan the automotive trivia flames. Putting together this web page is quite a coup d'etat and I regard it as nothing short of revolutionary. We all have to work at it to make sure that it never runs out of gas.

[Ultra]

Made in Turkey?

;)


P.S.

Putting together this web page is quite a coup d'etat and I regard it as nothing short of revolutionary. We all have to work at it to make sure that it never runs out of gas.

Thanks!  I couldn't agree more!  8)

[Tifosi]

Happy Turkey Day, everybody...is it Chinese?




Dan

[shamrock]

A DONG FENG ?

[Otto Puzzell]

Made in Turkey?

Yes!

[Otto Puzzell]

Not Chinese.

[Otto Puzzell]

Shoot...

And I thought this holiday edition puzzle would be be easy to slice through, my way of giving thanks to all of those who patronize our site. Scroll thigh mouse to the top of the screen, and wing it, if you have to. Don't let this revolutionary puzzle idea be dashed on the rock.

[Stephen M]

Tis a Devrim. Pass the gravy.

[SeaLion]

Tis a Devrim.

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I have never heard about Devrim, but I have found a lot of strange russian, polish and chinese cars since yesterday.  8)

[Otto Puzzell]

Huzzah - a Devrim, built in Turkey!

Devrim was ballyhood as  the first automobile designed and produced in Turkey.

The following is from Wikipedia, so take it with a grain of salt:

In 1961, President Cemal Gürsel ordered 24 engineers working in various companies, including Necmettin Erbakan, who became Prime Minister in 1990s, to build a car fully designed and produced in Turkey; it was to be demonstrated on the Day of the Republic on October 29 1961.

After four and a half months of hard work in the workshop, which now is TÜLOMSAŞ, the engineers managed to make four prototypes of the automobile. One was black, and the others were cream. It was named Devrim (the Turkish word for revolution, however the word references to the coup d'état of 1960).

Three of the cars were shipped to Ankara for the Republic Day. The black car was painted while on the train to Ankara. None of the cars had gasoline in them, as a safety precaution and the cars were filled with little fuel, only for maneuvering. On the day of celebrations, the President got in the black car for a ceremonial ride. After driving a hundred meters the car stopped, because it had run out of gasoline, thus the car could not take a tour around the Parliament building, as supposed. Then the president got in the cream car, and went to Anıtkabir with it. The newspaper headlines were, "Devrim went 100 meters, and it stopped.". The car became subject of jokes for many years.

The car was never mass produced. One reason for that was the cars were crafted prototypes and production process was not well-documented, with almost no technical drawings remaining from the production. Another reason was that the demand was not high enough to make mass production feasible. Cars still were affordable for a small economic minority, therefore there was a small number of potential private buyers.

A conspiracy theory about production was that American auto giants were approaching the government and it was decided to keep relations smooth.

[Otto Puzzell]

I sincerely hope that the over-the-top clues in these Thanksgiving threads will encourage our readers to revisit some of our other unsolved puzzles.

Some of the clues are super-obvious. :D

Virtually anything I type might be a clue.  8)

[Carnut]

Here's another picture showing the back-end this time as well:

[sixtee5cuda]

Recent photo of the remaining Devrim protoype: