Puzzle #670: Big Bertha - Solved! Van Blerck Speedster

[Otto Puzzell]

Know what it is?

Please, respond below and let us know the make and model designation of the car posted here.

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[@re]

Don't know what it is, but it is strangely attractive in a very brutal kind of way...

[Otto Puzzell]

Agreed

[Arthur Dent]

built from an old Fire truck or something similar?

[Otto Puzzell]

built from an old Fire truck or something similar?

The chassis, yes! The engine, no.

[@re]

Could it, by any chance, be a La France Roadster then?

[Otto Puzzell]

It is built on a LaFrance chassis. Niether the engine nor the body are LaFrance however.

[Allan L]

Gary Wales' Van Blerck Speedster of which the advertiser says:

Concours-winning automobile visionary, the basis of this one of a kind speedster is a gigantic six-cylinder Van Blerck Model L6 engine built to power the displacement hull speedboats of the early Twentieth Century. Gary Wales is the most restless, creative and imaginative spirit working in the antique and classic car idiom today. His Van Blerck Speedster is the one and only one built.

As we often find, the advertisements speak highly of it

[el_monty]

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