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Title: Whaddyacallit #211 - Solved! Cramer Comet
Post by: Ray B. on November 13, 2008, 11:11:51 AM
Ever seen this ?

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Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211
Post by: Joao Gois on November 13, 2008, 01:28:26 PM
Buick?
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211
Post by: Otto Puzzell on November 13, 2008, 04:53:34 PM
Whatever it is, it's making me chuckle.  :D
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211
Post by: Ray B. on November 14, 2008, 04:26:28 AM
Quote from: Joao Gois on November 13, 2008, 01:28:26 PM
Buick?
There are a few Buick parts. A few.
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211
Post by: Joao Gois on November 14, 2008, 04:28:28 AM
Production car or one-off/concept?
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211
Post by: Ray B. on November 14, 2008, 04:39:58 AM
I wouldn't call it a concept, although there's been some thinking applied to tis project. If you look carefully at the picture you will notice an obvious reason why it's no concept. So, purely a one-off.
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211
Post by: Joao Gois on November 14, 2008, 04:48:25 AM
Quote from: Ray B. on November 14, 2008, 04:39:58 AM
If you look carefully at the picture you will notice an obvious reason why it's no concept.

Too ordinary? :huh:
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211
Post by: Ray B. on November 14, 2008, 04:54:12 AM
No, a detail that doesn't fit. But the point is: it's not a concept-car.
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211
Post by: fnqvmuch on November 17, 2008, 09:52:04 AM
Zil?
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211
Post by: Ray B. on November 17, 2008, 01:35:21 PM
Nope. And, as said before, a one-off.
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211
Post by: Ray B. on December 06, 2008, 04:17:24 AM
Promoted
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211
Post by: Arunas on December 06, 2008, 08:47:59 AM
Plymouth related?
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211
Post by: Ray B. on December 06, 2008, 08:54:37 AM
Quote from: Arunas on December 06, 2008, 08:47:59 AM
Plymouth related?
Why this question ??
 Related to many, but not to Plymouth.
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211
Post by: neilshouse on December 15, 2008, 01:04:12 PM
I think this is the Cramer Comet, built by Tom Cramer in the 1950s, made from lots of bits of lots of cars from that era, however the engine is an Allison aircraft engine from a P-51 Mustang!
I would imagine it is fairly brisk.
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211
Post by: Ray B. on December 16, 2008, 03:02:38 AM
Brisk is hardly the word: 1350 hp!
I am away until Friday. I'll award you your point and move this puzzle when back.
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 16, 2008, 04:27:16 AM
I want one!  ;D
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211
Post by: Joao Gois on December 16, 2008, 05:33:18 AM
I'd prefer the Jameson Mk II but this would be just fine...  ;D

Any more pics??
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211
Post by: Ray B. on December 16, 2008, 09:38:18 AM
Not home now - Post them this weekend.
Given the point to Neilshouse, one more and he makes 100.
Moved to solved.
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211 - Solved! Cramer Comet
Post by: Paul Jaray on December 16, 2008, 10:35:32 AM
Quote from: Joao Gois on December 16, 2008, 05:33:18 AM
I'd prefer the Jameson Mk II but this would be just fine... ;D

Any more pics??

...but if you Google, you find the same 7 pics!
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211 - Solved! Cramer Comet
Post by: Joao Gois on December 16, 2008, 11:12:29 AM
That's what I was doing! Just hadn't got to those b&w frame pics, but the rest is from Pebble Beach, right?
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211 - Solved! Cramer Comet
Post by: Paul Jaray on December 16, 2008, 11:42:39 AM
I really do not know, but look at the chromes, you can see other cars on display and a white building...probably you're right, even if the grass seems not so Pebblishly!
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211 - Solved! Cramer Comet
Post by: Joao Gois on December 16, 2008, 11:54:14 AM
Well, the sky and the rest of the background must've been Photoshopped...

Damn, I love airplane-enguned cars...  ;D :hyper:
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211 - Solved! Cramer Comet
Post by: Ray B. on December 21, 2008, 05:04:27 PM
I think you missed this one...
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211 - Solved! Cramer Comet
Post by: Paul Jaray on December 21, 2008, 06:05:32 PM
ok, here's the last one:
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211 - Solved! Cramer Comet
Post by: jotage21 on December 21, 2008, 06:20:13 PM
Quote from: Joao Gois on December 16, 2008, 11:54:14 AM
Well, the sky and the rest of the background must've been Photoshopped...

Damn, I love airplane-enguned cars...  ;D :hyper:
I love them too, so I have made a list of road legal aero, tank and fire truck engined cars that I know:.

Bentley aero-engined by Bob Petersen
Bentley Merlin Special   
Blastolene B-702   
Blastolene Big Bertha   
Blastolene Indy Special
Blastolene Special
Chevrolet Bel-Air by Castlemaine Rod Shop
Cramer Comet Allison engined
Delage-Hispano-Suiza
Gary Wales La Bestiali
Gary Wales Van Berck
Jameson Merlin   
Jameson MKII   
John Dodd The Beast   
John Dodd The Beast II   
John Ould Hispano aero-engined   
Opel GT aero-engined   
Pur Sang 12 liters   
Rodzilla
Rolls-Royce 1927 aero-engined
Rover SD1 aero-engined   
Royce-Hispano   
Spitfire Special   
Swendean Spitfire   
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211 - Solved! Cramer Comet
Post by: ImpishGrin on December 21, 2008, 07:28:09 PM
What about the three Chitty Bang Bangs and the Higham Special?
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211 - Solved! Cramer Comet
Post by: jotage21 on December 21, 2008, 08:09:31 PM
IŽll have to add more to my list ;)
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211 - Solved! Cramer Comet
Post by: Joao Gois on December 22, 2008, 05:18:13 AM
Quote from: jotage21 on December 21, 2008, 06:20:13 PM
I love them too, so I have made a list of road legal aero, tank and fire truck engined cars that I know:.

Bentley aero-engined by Bob Petersen
Bentley Merlin Special   
Blastolene B-702   
Blastolene Big Bertha   
Blastolene Indy Special
Blastolene Special
Chevrolet Bel-Air by Castlemaine Rod Shop
Cramer Comet Allison engined
Delage-Hispano-Suiza
Gary Wales La Bestiali
Gary Wales Van Berck
Jameson Merlin   
Jameson MKII   
John Dodd The Beast   
John Dodd The Beast II Both the same car. And it was originally the Jameson Mk I, but it was only a rolling chassis when John Dodd bought it.
John Ould Hispano aero-engined   
Opel GT aero-engined   
Pur Sang 12 liters   
Rodzilla
Rolls-Royce 1927 aero-engined
Rover SD1 aero-engined   
Royce-Hispano   
Spitfire Special   
Swendean Spitfire   

Quote from: ImpishGrin on December 21, 2008, 07:28:09 PM
What about the three Chitty Bang Bangs and the Higham Special?

And there was too the White Triplex Special "Spirit of Elkdom" but, as a record car, I doubt it would be street legal. But still a rather amazing piece of machinery (as dangerous as it could be...).
Oh, and there's too the Monaco-Trossi, a FWD radial-engined racing car!
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211 - Solved! Cramer Comet
Post by: Quiller on December 23, 2008, 02:05:39 PM
Wasn't the Mohs Ostentatienne Opera powered by a fire truck engine?
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211 - Solved! Cramer Comet
Post by: jotage21 on December 23, 2008, 08:12:51 PM
IŽll look for some information about the Mohs engine
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211 - Solved! Cramer Comet
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 24, 2008, 02:26:14 AM
Quote from: Quiller on December 23, 2008, 02:05:39 PM
Wasn't the Mohs Ostentatienne Opera powered by a fire truck engine?

It had an international Harvester V8, as I understand it.
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #211 - Solved! Cramer Comet
Post by: Carnut on February 14, 2013, 12:02:45 PM
A nice front view: