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Title: Puzzle #430 - Brabham-Viking Cosworth Sports Racer by BASF
Post by: Otto Puzzell on August 30, 2007, 05:27:08 AM: Know what it is?

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Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Otto Puzzell on February 09, 2008, 06:43:48 AM: :bump:
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: @re on February 14, 2008, 04:00:42 PM: Is this a real functioning car? Looks like a scale (or full-scale) model...
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Otto Puzzell on February 14, 2008, 05:14:03 PM: Yep - a real car.
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Otto Puzzell on February 21, 2008, 05:18:01 AM: Built by a well-known constructor of competition components and cars, this example was constructed and finished to promote the products of another automotive supplier.
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Otto Puzzell on March 17, 2008, 04:11:46 AM: ???
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Otto Puzzell on April 04, 2008, 05:50:32 AM: This car's eye-catching appearance is a clue to the supplier it was intended to promote, versus the builder / supplier of the "go" parts.
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 25, 2008, 02:43:00 AM: Moving this one upstairs...
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: grobmotorix on June 09, 2008, 01:33:00 PM: Is it a "Mooneyes" or "Jocko" streamliner?
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Otto Puzzell on June 09, 2008, 01:58:43 PM: No sir.
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: SeaLion on June 28, 2008, 04:53:01 AM: Is it a electric car, perhaps built for a supplier of tools?
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Otto Puzzell on June 28, 2008, 05:35:36 AM: Nope, not electric. The presenter was a supplier of something that is visible in the picture.
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: SeaLion on June 28, 2008, 07:00:20 AM: There are some oval shaped "airships" in the background ...
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Otto Puzzell on June 28, 2008, 07:40:54 AM: The visible clue is on the car.
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Otto Puzzell on August 01, 2008, 05:09:21 AM: Alexander Scott checks his bank account balance...
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Ray B. on August 01, 2008, 11:29:41 AM: If this a clue, I (as a foreigner?) completely missed it. I find a scottish poet, an american photographer, a real estate agent, an artist specialized in bondage, and a character played by Bill Cosby...
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Otto Puzzell on August 01, 2008, 11:49:30 AM: Quote from: Ray B. on August 01, 2008, 11:29:41 AM
If this a clue...

It is!
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Ray B. on August 01, 2008, 12:04:26 PM: Still haven't found the right Scott, but any relation with British Petroleum?
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Otto Puzzell on August 01, 2008, 03:46:24 PM: Quote from: Ray B. on August 01, 2008, 12:04:26 PM
Still haven't found the right Scott, but any relation with British Petroleum?

The right Scott was identified in your previous post. ;)
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: @re on August 01, 2008, 03:54:43 PM: It hasn't, by any chance, got anything to do with Pirelli?
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Otto Puzzell on August 01, 2008, 03:59:38 PM: Quote from: @re on August 01, 2008, 03:54:43 PM
It hasn't, by any chance, got anything to do with Pirelli?

To my knowledge, no.
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Ray B. on August 01, 2008, 05:24:45 PM: I am getting short of ideas, but let's try this:
- Any relation with Ford ?
- Any relation with Jell-O ? (who isn't much of an automotive sipplier, though)
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Otto Puzzell on August 02, 2008, 03:48:58 AM: Jello is less connected than Ford, but not completely unconnected.
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: SeaLion on August 04, 2008, 02:29:36 AM: Is Hoover (as in vacuum-cleaners) a scottish firm? And is this an Hoover car perhaps?
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Otto Puzzell on August 04, 2008, 05:20:08 AM: Quote from: SeaLion on August 04, 2008, 02:29:36 AM
And is this an Hoover car perhaps?

No sir.
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Otto Puzzell on October 17, 2008, 06:20:43 AM: What the heck? Let's :bump: it again!
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 16, 2008, 04:14:44 PM: vroooooooooooooom
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Joao Gois on December 17, 2008, 05:28:05 AM: I'm betting the right Alexander Scott is the photographer who took this picture or something like that. Anyway, could Hella be the car part supplier?
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 17, 2008, 07:33:12 AM: No.
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Paul Jaray on December 17, 2008, 09:27:38 AM: As it something to do with fuel tanks producers?
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 17, 2008, 10:35:03 AM: Nope...
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Joao Gois on December 17, 2008, 11:30:47 AM: Quote from: Otto Puzzell on December 17, 2008, 07:33:12 AM
No.

No like, none of my statements or at just one of them?
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 17, 2008, 12:14:11 PM: Not fueltanks; not Hella.
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Allemano on December 17, 2008, 03:12:30 PM: air compression?
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 17, 2008, 03:15:56 PM: No, internal combustion engine. Pretty conventional car, all in all. The thing they want you to get excited about is clearly visible in this picture.
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Allemano on December 17, 2008, 03:20:21 PM: an automotive paint producing company like Glasurit for instance?
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 17, 2008, 05:17:47 PM: Yes, but not that particular one.

Finally, a breakthrough! :)
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Allemano on December 18, 2008, 01:13:19 AM: It's so obvious after knowing the correct direction, but it's still not that easy! Is the coating company from Europe?
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Allemano on December 18, 2008, 01:37:53 AM: Is it a big company?
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 18, 2008, 03:40:56 AM: Quote from: Allemano on December 18, 2008, 01:13:19 AM
It's so obvious after knowing the correct direction, but it's still not that easy! Is the coating company from Europe?

Yes!
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 18, 2008, 03:42:23 AM: Quote from: Allemano on December 18, 2008, 01:37:53 AM
Is it a big company?

Almost 60 billion euros in revenue last year...
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Allemano on December 18, 2008, 04:11:32 AM: BASF? (resp. BASF Coatings?)
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Joao Gois on December 18, 2008, 05:09:06 AM: PPG?
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Allemano on December 18, 2008, 05:14:37 AM: Quote from: Joao Gois on December 18, 2008, 05:09:06 AM
PPG?

.... is U.S. American
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Joao Gois on December 18, 2008, 06:05:14 AM: Oh, right, european...
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 18, 2008, 06:07:45 AM: Quote from: Allemano on December 18, 2008, 04:11:32 AM
BASF? (resp. BASF Coatings?)

Yes!
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Joao Gois on December 18, 2008, 07:54:09 AM: It's the 1998 Brabham-Viking Cosworth Sports Racer!

Straight-4, 1600cc, 240hp with twin Weber carbs, cross flow head and dry sump Cosworth engine, Brabham Formula 2 suspension with adjustable shocks and springs, Girling alloy disc brakes, Hewland Mark VIII / IV 4-speed gearbox. It should be quite a nice ride! :D
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: ImpishGrin on December 18, 2008, 03:45:35 PM: Ok, so what was that about some Scott?
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Joao Gois on December 18, 2008, 10:42:03 PM: Good question...
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: hugo90 on December 18, 2008, 11:43:13 PM: I keep looking at it, and the same name keeps coming back: White-Out.
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 19, 2008, 02:18:55 AM: Quote
Alexander Scott checks his bank account balance...

Alexander Scott - one of two principal character in the TV Series "I Spy". Scott was played by Bill Cosby.

One of Bill Cosby's nicknames was "Cos", which was also the name of an hour-long variety show featuring puppets, sketches, and musical numbers, hosted by Cosby, but was canceled within the year.

Why would he check his bank account balance? Why, to help discern his worth, of course.
Title: Re: Puzzle #430 - Brabham-Viking Cosworth Sports Racer by BASF
Post by: neilshouse on December 19, 2008, 04:12:09 AM: Sometimes I think the clues are more difficult than the puzzles!
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Joao Gois on December 19, 2008, 04:30:31 AM: Quote from: hugo90 on December 18, 2008, 11:43:13 PM
I keep looking at it, and the same name keeps coming back: White-Out.

???
Title: Re: Puzzle #430 - Brabham-Viking Cosworth Sports Racer by BASF
Post by: hugo90 on December 22, 2008, 03:00:44 AM: Somewhere I saw a product-mobile for White-Out, and it had a shape like that green part on it.
Title: Re: Puzzle #430 - Brabham-Viking Cosworth Sports Racer by BASF
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 22, 2008, 03:59:44 AM: Quote from: neilshouse on December 19, 2008, 04:12:09 AM
Sometimes I think the clues are more difficult than the puzzles!

After the very telling clues early on didn't help, what was I to do?
Title: Re: Puzzle #430
Post by: Joao Gois on December 22, 2008, 06:43:27 AM: Quote from: Otto Puzzell on December 19, 2008, 02:18:55 AM
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Alexander Scott checks his bank account balance...

Alexander Scott - one of two principal character in the TV Series "I Spy". Scott was played by Bill Cosby.

One of Bill Cosby's nicknames was "Cos", which was also the name of an hour-long variety show featuring puppets, sketches, and musical numbers, hosted by Cosby, but was canceled within the year.

Why would he check his bank account balance? Why, to help discern his worth, of course.

OK... iI'm sorry Otto but I'd lose a leg before finding the connection... :o
Title: Re: Puzzle #430 - Brabham-Viking Cosworth Sports Racer by BASF
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 22, 2008, 08:33:13 AM: Well, these clues required no limb damage:

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Built by a well-known constructor of competition components and cars, this example was constructed and finished to promote the products of another automotive supplier.

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This car's eye-catching appearance is a clue to the supplier it was intended to promote, versus the builder / supplier of the "go" parts.

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Nope, not electric. The presenter was a supplier of something that is visible in the picture.

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The visible clue is on the car.
Title: Re: Puzzle #430 - Brabham-Viking Cosworth Sports Racer by BASF
Post by: Joao Gois on December 22, 2008, 10:33:33 AM: Yes, of course. Those (obviously...) I understood. The limb-amputating clue was that specific one about Cosworth... :shiner: