SOLVED - Happily Ever After? - by Arunas, Ray B, neilshouse, DynaMike, Paul Jaray, Graber and Allemano

[@re]

Let's have a try:  could this Crow-Elkhart matches to car #20 an Armstrong Siddeley?

Pairing Sheryl Crow and Lance Armstrong?

If you want to match those two, you're going to have to find an Armstrong first. Car #20 has already been identified as a Diana.

[Allemano]

oh!  :-[  ;D

[Arunas]

Most likely #17 is Armstrong Siddeley

[@re]

No, it isn't.

[Arunas]

No, it isn't.

:-(

[Ray B.]

Let's have a try:  could this Crow-Elkhart matches to car #20 an Armstrong Siddeley?

Pairing Sheryl Crow and Lance Armstrong?

That's what I thought of course, but I restrained writing it because I couln't find any Armstrong that matched the still unnamed cars.

I think tere is no Armstrong Siddeley here, but an Armstrong Whitworth, who sould be car #11, completing the pair Sheryl Crow and Lance Armstrong.

[@re]

Ah! Very good. Another point for Ray B... and I think I'll award the point for the pairing to Allemano, since I said that guessing was allowed, but could lead to tipping others off - although it was quite clear that Ray B knew what name the Crow should be linked with.

[Ray B.]

Suits me fine.

[Ray B.]

- although it was quite clear that Ray B knew what name the Crow should be linked with.

...especially as, being a frenchie, I am supposed to know everything about a man who won the Tour de France six times! Or was it seven...?

Question, @re: must the names all have the exact same spelling, or are they sometimes just phonetically the same?

[@re]

In this puzzle, and in most of my puzzles, the spelling is exactly the same.

Edit: NO IT ISN'T. SHAME ON ME FOR SAYING SO. :doh:

[@re]

Here you go, Professionals!

[Joao Gois]

Is the list in page 1 updated?

[@re]

Yes.

[Ray B.]

#10 is a 1908 Cadillac Victoria. If somebody has an idea what Victoria should be matched with, he is welcome. I don't.

[@re]

I wasn't aware of the very obvious resemblance between the Cadillac Victoria and my puzzle car. It's clearly based on a Victoria, but this one bears the name of the man who modified it - you see, it differs from the Cadillac in at least one significant way.

[Arunas]

@ @re: One question: Have the points already been added or they will be added once the puzzle is soved?  ???

[@re]

As far as I can remember, I haven't added any points for this yet.

[Ray B.]

I wasn't aware of the very obvious resemblance between the Cadillac Victoria and my puzzle car. It's clearly based on a Victoria, but this one bears the name of the man who modified it - you see, it differs from the Cadillac in at least one significant way.

If I dismiss the fact that it has no headlights, who were optional, the main difference is the size of the "engine compartment", hood or whatever: exact same "tulip" design, but much bigger than on the Caddy. And there doesn't seem to be a radiator:
A steam car?

[@re]

If I dismiss the fact that it has no headlights, who were optional, the main difference is the size of the "engine compartment", hood or whatever: exact same "tulip" design, but much bigger than on the Caddy. And there doesn't seem to be a radiator:
A steam car?

Now, that's what I call reasoning!

Yes!

[Ray B.]

Thanks but I can't find it.
Now I'm gonna ask 3 questions for 3 different cars. So I guess the Erbas rule doesn't apply.
Car #10: I hate do do it this way, but... Is it American?
Car #17: I hate do do it this way, but... Is it british?
Car#18: Those bloody pre-1930 cars, when of a common body style, really look like one another. This one looks very much like a ca.1909 Winton (altough I don't see who a "Winton" could be coupled to). Is it a Winton?

[@re]

As long as I've been on this forum, you've never acted anything like erbas - so I'll cut you some slack ;)

Car #10 is certainly American.
Car #17 is not British.
Car #18 is not a Winton.

I found this picture of a 1909 Winton on the web - and while it is similar, it appears to be shorter and more compact than the puzzle car.

[Ray B.]

I thought so... It especially lacks that extra or outside radiator who can be seen on the puzzle car.
This one is much more like it, but yet I can find a dozen cars that are more like it.

[@re]

Well, I'm not an expert on this kind of car, but... could there be a reason for that strange "radiator"?

[Paul Jaray]

I know this car...I read the rules and I can tell the car even if I do not know the match...here you are:
Car #18 Lane 30HP Steam tourer 1909
maybe the #17 a Kent 40hp touring from 1917?
Loris Lane & Clark Kent?
or #10 is a Lambert Model A4 from 1906?
Diane Lane and  Christopher Lambert?

[@re]

Not bad!

Car #18 is indeed a 1909 Lane 30 HP Steam tourer. But #17 is not a Kent, and #10 is not a Lambert. If the correct pairing turns out to be either Lois Lane and Clark Kent, or Diane Lane and Christopher Lambert, you will get that point, too, but for now you will have to make do with only one point for the Lane.