AutoPuzzles - The Internet's Museum of Rare Cars!

Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2007 => Topic started by: Otto Puzzell on September 01, 2007, 07:37:49 AM

Title: Puzzle #444 - Solved! DUTCHER Steam Car
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 01, 2007, 07:37:49 AM
(http://www.autopuzzles.com/PP444.jpg)

Know what it is?

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

If you haven't registered yet, you need to do so in order to reply with your answer.  You can do so by clicking here (http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?action=register).

Also, please be sure to check out our other puzzles, and, please post a puzzle of your own if you'd like - the more, the merrier. :D
Title: Re: Puzzle #444
Post by: billtorrance9999 on September 02, 2007, 09:21:52 AM
Looks kinda like an AMC Javelin
Title: Re: Puzzle #444
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 03, 2007, 03:18:36 AM
Not an AMC
Title: Re: Puzzle #444
Post by: SeaLion on September 03, 2007, 03:56:11 AM
Reminds me of a Ford Mustang II, designed by DeLaRossa. But that was an interpretation of a Ghia design. So maybe this is the very Ghia concept for the Mustang II that DeLaRossa was inspired by?
Title: Re: Puzzle #444
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 03, 2007, 06:18:25 AM
Not a Ford or a Ghia design
Title: Re: Puzzle #444
Post by: SeaLion on September 03, 2007, 07:22:56 AM
Concept for Chevrolet Monza? Or Chevrolet Vega GT?
Title: Re: Puzzle #444
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 03, 2007, 07:56:33 AM
It sure resembles a Monza from that angle, but it is not a Chevrolet.
Title: Re: Puzzle #444
Post by: Tifosi on September 03, 2007, 04:22:36 PM
Mazda Luce?


Dan
Title: Re: Puzzle #444
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 04, 2007, 03:11:05 AM
Not a Mazda.
Title: Re: Puzzle #444
Post by: JR on September 04, 2007, 10:52:44 AM
Difficult to tell from that angle but it could be a Puma GTB.

JR
Title: Re: Puzzle #444
Post by: JR on September 04, 2007, 07:42:13 PM
On second thoughts, having found some clearer photos, not a Puma because the bonnet/wing relationship is wrong.

JR
Title: Re: Puzzle #444
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 05, 2007, 05:26:53 AM
Yep - not a Puma.
Title: Re: Puzzle #444
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 21, 2007, 05:36:35 AM
Built in the USA
Title: Re: Puzzle #444
Post by: otis89 on September 24, 2007, 03:40:16 PM
I swear I've seen that car before, but I can't remember what it is.
Title: Re: Puzzle #444
Post by: Tifosi on September 25, 2007, 12:34:08 AM
Mopar?



Dan
Title: Re: Puzzle #444
Post by: SeaLion on September 25, 2007, 02:14:13 AM
Quote from: KarnUtz on September 03, 2007, 07:56:33 AM
It sure resembles a Monza from that angle, but it is not a Chevrolet.
Is it another GM member, perhaps Buick?
Title: Re: Puzzle #444
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 25, 2007, 06:16:12 AM
Not from a Big 3 manufacturer, or AMC, either.
Title: Re: Puzzle #444
Post by: otis89 on September 26, 2007, 07:20:40 PM
Is it Asian?
Title: Re: Puzzle #444
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 27, 2007, 06:46:19 AM
Built in the USA
Title: Re: Puzzle #444
Post by: @re on November 10, 2007, 09:48:40 PM
Did Dick Teague have anything to do with this?
Title: Re: Puzzle #444
Post by: Otto Puzzell on November 11, 2007, 03:59:57 AM
To the best of my knowledge, he did not.
Title: Re: Puzzle #444
Post by: Tifosi on November 11, 2007, 04:32:25 PM
What type of powerplant?




Dan
Title: Re: Puzzle #444
Post by: Otto Puzzell on November 12, 2007, 02:10:35 AM
Quite unconventional.
Title: Re: Puzzle #444
Post by: Tifosi on November 12, 2007, 04:10:12 AM
Just how unconventional, exactly?  Are we talking steam, turbine, gerbil-on-treadmill...?



Dan
Title: Re: Puzzle #444
Post by: Otto Puzzell on November 12, 2007, 11:54:27 AM
That would be telling
Title: Re: Puzzle #444
Post by: Paul Jaray on November 13, 2007, 02:18:17 PM
Time to solve it....it is a Dutcher steam car 1974 from S.Diego.

<<< link removed >>>
Title: Re: Puzzle #444 - Solved! DUTCHER Steam Car
Post by: sixtee5cuda on October 01, 2012, 05:12:21 PM
Interesting.  All online information about the Dutcher steam car, indicates it was one of two cars developed for the state of California, by two different companies.  The Dutcher was supposed to have been constructed from scratch, while the car from Aerojet Liquid Rocket Company was based on a Chevrolet Vega.

The puzzle car, which may still be part of the Jay Leno collection, is clearly based on a Vega as well.  I think Dutcher Industries was stretching the truth with regards to "constructed from scratch".

I haven't found any images of the Aerojet steam car.
Title: Re: Puzzle #444 - Solved! DUTCHER Steam Car
Post by: RayTheRat on October 01, 2012, 09:39:15 PM
Here are a couple more photos of the car: