AutoPuzzles - The Internet's Museum of Rare Cars!

Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2009 => Topic started by: Ray B. on January 19, 2009, 05:48:00 AM

Title: Art and cars #8 - Solved! Billy Gibbons and his numerous rods and customs
Post by: Ray B. on January 19, 2009, 05:48:00 AM
Who is he, and what car can he be associated with?

Art and cars. Painters, writers, musicians, actors, movie makers: in a nutshell, artists. Cars of special importance in their work, or in their life.
This one, being relatively easy, will be worth just 1 point. Tougher ones will be worth 2, one for the artist, one for the car.
Rule of this puzzle is: you identify the artist, you have one week to find the car. After that, the hunt is opened and anyone can rob you of your point.

If you haven't registered yet, you need to do so in order to reply with your answer.
Also, please be sure to check out our other puzzles, and, please post a puzzle of your own if you'd like - the more, the merrier.

Thanks!
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: Ray B. on January 27, 2009, 04:13:21 AM
Moved
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: Ray B. on February 09, 2009, 05:33:37 AM
And re-moved.
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: Allemano on February 09, 2009, 08:09:13 AM
someone from the red-light destrict?   ;D
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: Ray B. on February 09, 2009, 08:19:59 AM
It's not Toulouse-Lautrec if that's what you mean.
(I don't know what would be an artist "from the red light district").
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: Allemano on February 10, 2009, 03:06:55 PM
Some of them claim to be artists... ^-^ If you've seen the movie "Boogie Nights" you know what I mean. :lmao:
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: Ray B. on February 10, 2009, 04:55:44 PM
Well, I cropped the picture, but I can assure you it's not his schlong he's holding, and he's got his pants on.
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: Ray B. on February 23, 2009, 08:49:19 AM
Now that we've established that he is wearing pants and is not a porn actor (I still wonder what went through Allemano's head), I can add that he has a profession whose members can be seen, relatively often, performing without their shirt.

But he himself lost that habit long ago.
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: Paul Jaray on February 23, 2009, 09:01:55 AM
A dancer?
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: Ray B. on February 23, 2009, 09:08:31 AM
No. But a stage performer too, although not only.
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: Allemano on February 23, 2009, 09:23:14 AM
Quote from: Ray B. on February 23, 2009, 08:49:19 AM
(...) (I still wonder what went through Allemano's head)  (...)

I wouldn't wonder at all  ;D
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: Ray B. on March 11, 2009, 01:27:49 PM
I know, I know, I've been accused to deprive experts of a chance to take a shot at some puzzles that I had moved directly to the Pro and Feature Writer section.

Well, here is their chance: I am moving back this one to the FREE FOR ALL section!
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: Ray B. on March 31, 2009, 06:52:32 PM
This man was primarily known as an "artist", but he is really into cars too, and I am sure you know some of his babies.
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: Quiller on April 02, 2009, 12:21:16 PM
is he a drummer perhaps
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: Ray B. on April 02, 2009, 12:26:17 PM
This puzzle is back on its tracks at last !

A musician for sure, but not a drummer. Drummer are not the only ones to sometimes play barechested.
Oh, and he lost that habit long ago. He plays much, much more covered now.
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: Ray B. on May 15, 2009, 04:46:23 PM
...and he is very, very much interested in cars.
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: Allemano on May 15, 2009, 05:30:42 PM
He became a rock musician I guess (after his failed porn career)...  Is he from GB?
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: Ray B. on May 16, 2009, 03:11:25 AM
Yes (keep your mind off that...), and nope.
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: Ray B. on May 28, 2009, 02:50:17 AM
Clue time.
It's him here too.
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: Allemano on May 28, 2009, 03:27:09 AM
Guitarero?
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: Ray B. on May 28, 2009, 03:30:19 AM
Yes sir.
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: metalshapes on June 05, 2009, 03:28:08 AM
A guess...

Eric Burdon

Corvette.
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: Ray B. on June 05, 2009, 09:14:41 AM
it's not Eric Burdon, but it's someone that you especially could think of.
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: Allemano on June 15, 2009, 05:12:23 AM
Is it Steve Winwood on the left of the second pic?
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: Ray B. on June 15, 2009, 05:25:27 AM
With Hendrix? I don't think so. But you might follow the trail you've just found.
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: Allemano on June 15, 2009, 05:30:01 AM
Quote from: Ray B. on June 15, 2009, 05:25:27 AM
With Hendrix? I don't think so. But you might follow the trail you've just found.

There are several session pics showing Hendrix with Winwood.
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: Ray B. on June 15, 2009, 05:41:37 AM
Yes. Somewhere there is one, and my second pic on the same page.
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: streamliner on June 15, 2009, 11:59:29 PM
Could this be Chris Wood of both Traffic and Electric Ladyland?
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: streamliner on June 16, 2009, 12:08:41 AM
...and the 1956 Chevy from which the hood ornament was pulled to make the cover of "Blind Faith".
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: Ray B. on June 16, 2009, 05:27:19 AM
This man, as far as I know, has no connection with Traffic or Hendrix apart from the meeting on the photograph. He isn't british either.
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: streamliner on June 16, 2009, 08:20:43 AM
Then it must be Billy Gibbons before he had hair...
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: streamliner on June 16, 2009, 08:25:14 AM
...and his 1933 Ford "Eliminator", one of the most iconic hot rods ever.  It's got legs and knows how to use them...
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: Allemano on June 16, 2009, 08:27:20 AM
Unbelievable! Great puzzle esp. in particular the choice of pics!!
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: Allemano on June 16, 2009, 08:37:25 AM
But at least he and his former band "The Moving Sidewalks" had been opening act for Jimi Hendrix several times, so, it wasn't their only meating on page two!
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: streamliner on June 16, 2009, 08:49:33 AM
You've probably already found this gem, also:

When we were supporting Jimi, I was sitting in my hotel room one night and practiced a little. Then this dude stuck his head through the door — it was Jimi Hendrix! I felt paralyzed and speechless. He grabbed my guitar, laid down on the floor, looked at the ceiling and played some unbelievable licks, before asking whether I could do stuff like this, too — and then he even stepped it up a notch. Afterwards he showed me some tricks. I learned a lot from him.

There's another night I will never forget. After a show somewhere we were so full of adrenalin still that no one could sleep. Back then, there was no curfew at the venues, which meant you could stay as long as you wanted. It must've been 3 a.m. Jimi's Marshall stacks were still up on-stage, when one of his roadies brought huge sheets of paper, buckets of fluorescent color and two cleaning mops. The paper was hung as a backdrop, the cleaning mops were stuck onto two guitars. Jimi plugged in and went into a furious sound and feedback assault. Again and again he dipped his guitar in the fluorescent color and ecstatically smeared it on the paper. He told me to try it too, and that's what I did. We played until we were dizzy. That was all so bizarre, and you could feel the energy. Needless to say we didn't get anymore sleep that night.
Title: Re: Art and cars #8
Post by: Ray B. on June 16, 2009, 08:56:06 AM
Quote from: Allemano on June 16, 2009, 08:37:25 AM
But at least he and his former band "The Moving Sidewalks" had been opening act for Jimi Hendrix several times, so, it wasn't their only meating on page two!

Oops! I am a great ZZ Top listener but I never checked the story of the band, I reckon, and just learned of the Moving Sidewalks until recently. My mistake!
The nice part with Billy Gibbons is that you don't have to find pictures of him as a schoolboy or baby to make things a little hard. Just take off most of his beard, the sunglasses and whatever he's got on top of his head and he's another man!

I'll add the Cadzilla to the Eliminator, and be back soon with some pictures.
Title: Re: Art and cars #8 - Solved! Billy Gibbons and his numerous rods and customs
Post by: Otto Puzzell on June 17, 2009, 02:28:37 AM
I wouldn't have gotten that in a million years.
Title: Re: Art and cars #8 - Solved! Billy Gibbons and his numerous rods and customs
Post by: metalshapes on June 17, 2009, 03:59:29 AM
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on June 17, 2009, 02:28:37 AM
I wouldn't have gotten that in a million years.

Me neither...

What makes that worse is that we've met, and talked about Hot Rods..  ;D
Title: Re: Art and cars #8 - Solved! Billy Gibbons and his numerous rods and customs
Post by: Allemano on June 17, 2009, 04:06:22 AM
...and he didn't take his beard off? How ill-mannered is that?!
Title: Re: Art and cars #8 - Solved! Billy Gibbons and his numerous rods and customs
Post by: metalshapes on June 17, 2009, 04:11:18 AM
Quote from: Allemano on June 17, 2009, 04:06:22 AM
...and he didn't take his beard off? How ill-mannered is that?!

;D  ;D  ;D
Title: Re: Art and cars #8 - Solved! Billy Gibbons and his numerous rods and customs
Post by: Ray B. on June 17, 2009, 04:11:24 AM
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on June 17, 2009, 02:28:37 AM
I wouldn't have gotten that in a million years.
Well, what do you say of your Cars and Tuners puzzles I am so fond of? i've spent hours trying to figure who those garage bands were, in vain. Gibbons, at least, is famous.
Revenge !!!  ;D