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Title: Puzzle # 142 - Solved! Airway Sedan Prototype
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 19, 2006, 03:35:36 AM
Know what it is?

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Title: Re: Puzzle # 142
Post by: MG on December 19, 2006, 07:46:44 AM
Looks like The Little Engine That Could!    :)
Title: Re: Puzzle # 142
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 19, 2006, 09:21:57 AM
 ;D
Title: Re: Puzzle # 142
Post by: Tifosi on December 20, 2006, 10:21:02 AM
Thomas makes some NEW friends...



Dan
Title: Re: Puzzle # 142
Post by: Arthur Dent on December 20, 2006, 11:02:14 AM
Surely something so homely came from an Eastern block country - Czechoslovakia?
Title: Re: Puzzle # 142
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 20, 2006, 12:06:09 PM
Not Czech.
Title: Re: Puzzle # 142
Post by: MG on December 22, 2006, 12:24:37 PM
Yeah, but eastern bloc, nonetheless, like Uzbekistan or Lithuania or something.

Hey, howzzabout good ol', fun loving East Germany?   
Title: Re: Puzzle # 142
Post by: Arthur Dent on December 22, 2006, 01:29:39 PM
Hungry maybe?
Title: Re: Puzzle # 142
Post by: MG on December 22, 2006, 02:01:55 PM
Not now. Maybe later...... ;)

Oh, you meant HUNGARY, home of Hungarian goulash and other culinary delights?  Well, why didnja SAY so?    :hah:
Title: Re: Puzzle # 142
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 23, 2006, 02:34:34 AM
Not built in East Germany, Uzbekistan, Lithuania or Hungary.
Title: Re: Puzzle # 142
Post by: Tifosi on December 23, 2006, 11:54:35 AM
Poland?



Dan
Title: Re: Puzzle # 142
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 23, 2006, 12:38:02 PM
No.
Title: Re: Puzzle # 142
Post by: Tifosi on December 23, 2006, 01:49:42 PM
Eastern or Western Europe?



Dan
Title: Re: Puzzle # 142
Post by: SeaLion on December 23, 2006, 05:56:04 PM
US-american.
Title: Re: Puzzle # 142
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 24, 2006, 02:04:57 AM
Quote from: Tifosi on December 23, 2006, 01:49:42 PM
Eastern or Western Europe?



Dan

No.
Title: Re: Puzzle # 142
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 24, 2006, 02:05:19 AM
Quote from: SeaLion on December 23, 2006, 05:56:04 PM
US-american.

Yes.
Title: Re: Puzzle # 142
Post by: MG on December 24, 2006, 08:07:11 AM
Judging by the Ozzie & Harriet hairstyles on the ladies, its from the late '40s or early '50s and has a radio that is permanently tuned to American Bandstand!  Not only that, it has a stablemate in the garage and they each park separately in garage stalls that are exactly identical in dimensions to god ol' American twin beds!    ;D

The only car of the era I recall with those puny wheels and tires was a Crossley. So that's my guess. As to a model, I would posit that such a design as this would be filed under "R" for Regretable!     :hah:
Title: Re: Puzzle # 142
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 26, 2006, 05:18:55 AM
Not a Crosley
Title: Re: Puzzle # 142
Post by: pieter on January 03, 2007, 01:22:36 AM
ca 1948 Airway sedan, aluminium body, rear-mounted 10hp engine
Title: Re: Puzzle # 142
Post by: Otto Puzzell on January 03, 2007, 03:10:41 AM
That is correct.

Well done!  ;D

Title: Whaddyacallit #227
Post by: Ray B. on December 07, 2008, 05:16:56 PM
Ever seen this ? 

(http://www.autopuzzles.com/RayB.stuff/wdyci227.jpg)

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Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #227
Post by: DynaMike on December 08, 2008, 08:08:12 AM
1948 Airway, built by T.P. Hall Engeneering, San Diego, Ca. It had an air-cooled, rear-mounted 10 hp engine of the make 'Onan' (sic) and could reach 50 mph.
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #227
Post by: Ray B. on December 08, 2008, 11:56:46 AM
You amaze me again, as this doesn't come from the internet.
Hall is the creator of another car which you can find on Autopuzzles. Do you know what it is? It will be worth another point.
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #227
Post by: Ray B. on December 09, 2008, 05:05:35 AM
Otto Puzzell has warned me that this car already had been a puzzle here, solved long ago.
My mistake: I was too self-confident and didn't check. He will merge them in due time.

This won't keep Dynamike from receiving is point. And my second question still holds: its maker built another car, also a solved Autopuzzle. One point to whoever tells us which.
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #227
Post by: alecwolf on December 30, 2008, 07:32:24 PM
T. P. Hall has made the Convair Flying Car 118 in 1947.
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #227
Post by: Ray B. on December 31, 2008, 06:15:16 AM
Right. Points added to both of you.
For the other creation of Ted Hall, see: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=3932.0
Title: Re: Puzzle # 142 - Solved! Airway Sedan
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 31, 2008, 07:11:52 AM
merged
Title: Re: Puzzle # 142
Post by: Otto Puzzell on August 18, 2012, 06:26:47 AM
Quote from: pieter on January 03, 2007, 01:22:36 AM
ca 1948 Airway sedan, aluminium body, rear-mounted 10hp engine

Further reading suggests this was the aluminum prototype. The 'production' Airway, with a plastic and aluminum body, became a fastback. its rounded shape probably made it easier to pull it from the mold. 

Thread re-titled.
Title: Re: Puzzle # 142
Post by: RayTheRat on August 19, 2012, 02:16:49 PM
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on August 18, 2012, 06:26:47 AM
Quote from: pieter on January 03, 2007, 01:22:36 AM
ca 1948 Airway sedan, aluminium body, rear-mounted 10hp engine

Further reading suggests this was the aluminum prototype. The 'production' Airway, with a plastic and aluminum body, became a fastback. its rounded shape probably made it easier to pull it from the mold. 

Thread re-titled.

I have it labeled as an "Airway Vicinity."  That's the way it was described in a 1948 write-up in Popular Mechanics.
Title: Re: Puzzle # 142 - Solved! Airway Sedan Prototype
Post by: Otto Puzzell on March 13, 2017, 04:02:31 AM
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