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Title: Puzzle #670: Big Bertha - Solved! Van Blerck Speedster
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 22, 2007, 07:21:26 AM
Know what it is?

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Title: Re: Puzzle #670: Big Bertha
Post by: @re on December 23, 2007, 09:39:17 AM
Don't know what it is, but it is strangely attractive in a very brutal kind of way...
Title: Re: Puzzle #670: Big Bertha
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 26, 2007, 09:52:09 AM
Agreed
Title: Re: Puzzle #670: Big Bertha
Post by: Arthur Dent on December 26, 2007, 05:30:25 PM
built from an old Fire truck or something similar?
Title: Re: Puzzle #670: Big Bertha
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 27, 2007, 05:25:51 AM
Quote from: Arthur Dent on December 26, 2007, 05:30:25 PM
built from an old Fire truck or something similar?

The chassis, yes! The engine, no.
Title: Re: Puzzle #670: Big Bertha
Post by: @re on December 27, 2007, 10:35:29 PM
Could it, by any chance, be a La France Roadster then?
Title: Re: Puzzle #670: Big Bertha
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 28, 2007, 04:40:30 AM
It is built on a LaFrance chassis. Niether the engine nor the body are LaFrance however.
Title: Re: Puzzle #670: Big Bertha
Post by: Allan L on December 30, 2007, 04:24:53 PM
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 ;D
Title: Re: Puzzle #670: Big Bertha - Solved! Van Blerck Speedster
Post by: el_monty on July 18, 2019, 11:13:15 AM
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