Solved: 96. of All. - 1977 Alfa Romeo Triplex Ten-Twenty Special

[Allemano]

If you know this car one poinit will be added to your account.
Sometimes it happens that I'd like to have additional informations about the designer, engine or characteristics.
I will let you know on these occasions!

[Allemano]

moved!

[Quiller]

That's Chris Humberstone's Triplex Ten Twenty Special of 1977.

Seated six people in offset positions!

[Allemano]

That's correct, but would you please a little bit more specific? On which car it is based on?

[Anton]

The Triplex 10/20 that I am aware of was based upon Austin Morris Princess underpinnings, but was a four door car.

The pic above has but two and looks like some Bertone designede Alfa prototype.

[ImpishGrin]

This is indeed the Triplex Ten Twenty Special by Chris Humberstone Design (1977), based on the underpinnings of Rover SD1 3500. What you're refering to Anton, is probably the Triplex Ten Twenty Glassback, which was presented a year later (1978) and was an estate basing on the Morris Princess.

[Anton]

Okay. You win. ;D

[Allemano]

This is indeed the Triplex Ten Twenty Special by Chris Humberstone Design (1977), based on the underpinnings of Rover SD1 3500. What you're refering to Anton, is probably the Triplex Ten Twenty Glassback, which was presented a year later (1978) and was an estate basing on the Morris Princess.

It's indeed the Triplex Ten Twenty, but still: there's a particular logo on the front!  (which I had to remove of course!)
I like to know the brand this logo belongs to..  ;)

[Anton]

Triplex TTS, no?

[Allemano]

Not that I'm looking for.

[DHoffmann]

Not that I'm looking for.

Alfa Romeo?

[Allemano]

That's it!

[ImpishGrin]

Alfa Romeo? On a Rover-based car?

[Anton]

As the tree said to the lumberjack..."I'm stumped" ;D

In my last post I was actually going to write something about the "scudetto" in the front bumper but deleted it. :taz:

[Allemano]

Sorry, but according to our rules this point goes to DHoffmann!

[DHoffmann]

As the tree said to the lumberjack..."I'm stumped" ;D

In my last post I was actually going to write something about the "scudetto" in the front bumper but deleted it. :taz:

That little triangle is what I based my guess on, bit of a fluke.
Love the seating arrangement on this, although I wouldn't want to be one of the side passengers...

[Allemano]

There were two different versions. Only this one was equipped with an Alfa engine. (Alfasud 1,5l as far as I remember)

[Quiller]

Hmmm. I'm not a point-chaser by any means, but I can't help feeling robbed here! 'According to the rules' surely means you have to identify the car, which I did. You didn't ask what the car was based on till after I'd identified it. And when I next log in (now) one day later, someone else has got the point. It's the puzzle-setter's call as ever, but I can't help feeling your 'rules' are pretty elastic.

[Allemano]

Sorry Quiller, but according to my source 'Alfa Romeo' is part of the name! So it's not that kind of nit-picking you're blaming me.
If you remember the Allemano Fiat 1500 Berlina, my source also hasn't revealed the name 'Berlina'.

Here's the pic:

[Quiller]

As I said, it's your call.

But I would point out:

1. This is in no way an Alfa Romeo as your 'solved' title states - the caption in Stephen Vokins' book is wrong. This car was in fact a creation of Chris Humberstone Design Ltd, as commissioned by Triplex. It merely used Alfa Romeo mechanicals.

2. Your comparison with the Allemano Berlina puzzle doesn't hold water. The contemporary source used for that puzzle called it a "Berlina 4 Posti" to distinguish it from Allemano's very similar - but different - 2+2 coupe that was offered at the same time. The crux of that puzzle was to make sure of said distinction.

It's worth bearing in mind that not all sources are necessarily correct.

But hey, it's your puzzle, you can do what you want.

[Allemano]

Maybe I'm not as smart as you, but neither the captions nor this pic is from the book you've mentioned.
AND: even Austin-Rover.co.uk. has corrected the old Humberstone article just yesterday, but never mind..

about point 2. I could write a lot, but I believe it would be a waste of time. After all it isn't that obvious whose source are more reliable.

[Otto Puzzell]