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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2009 => Topic started by: Carnut on November 24, 2009, 03:20:55 PM

Title: Solved - NEH 100: Multiplex 186 Swallow 1954 (Cisitalia 202 lookalike)
Post by: Carnut on November 24, 2009, 03:20:55 PM: What's this, who built it and when?
1 point if you can answer correctly...
Title: Re: NEH 100
Post by: Paul Jaray on November 24, 2009, 03:34:13 PM: This one is not a repost. ;)
Title: Re: NEH 100
Post by: Carnut on November 24, 2009, 05:50:50 PM: Quote from: Paul Jaray on November 24, 2009, 03:34:13 PM
This one is not a repost. ;)

You know exactly what I was expecting the first reply to say, don't you PJ?!
Title: Re: NEH 100
Post by: del78 on November 25, 2009, 04:34:14 AM: Cisitalia from 1949??
Title: Re: NEH 100
Post by: Carnut on November 25, 2009, 07:39:06 AM: Quote from: del78 on November 25, 2009, 04:34:14 AM
Cisitalia from 1949??

That's the reply I expected first!
This car has nothing at all to do with Cisitalia (apart from looking almost identical to a Cisitalia 202, that is!)
Title: Re: NEH 100
Post by: Otto Puzzell on November 27, 2009, 06:45:16 AM: Quote from: Paul Jaray on November 24, 2009, 03:34:13 PM
This one is not a repost. ;)

Well, technically, anyway. ;)
Title: Re: NEH 100
Post by: Carnut on November 27, 2009, 07:06:42 AM: Quote from: Otto Puzzell on November 27, 2009, 06:45:16 AM
Quote from: Paul Jaray on November 24, 2009, 03:34:13 PM
This one is not a repost. ;)

Well, technically, anyway. ;)

You mean it has been pictured before?
Can you PM me with a clue to where it is Otto?!
Title: Re: NEH 100
Post by: Arunas on November 27, 2009, 07:20:41 AM: @Carnut:clear Your inbox ;)
Title: Re: NEH 100
Post by: Otto Puzzell on November 27, 2009, 08:21:04 AM: Link sent to e-mail.
Title: Re: NEH 100
Post by: Carnut on November 27, 2009, 08:42:38 AM: Quote from: Arunas on November 27, 2009, 07:20:41 AM
@Carnut:clear Your inbox ;)

Space created!
Title: Re: NEH 100
Post by: Tackitt on November 30, 2009, 09:44:17 AM: Built in the early nineties by the Atlas/Allied Fiberglass Company in Southern California, it was simply called the Allied Coupe.
Heavy-duty tube frame built to hold an American V-8. The one I have seen pictures of had a motor from an Olds Rocket 88 in it.
Title: Re: NEH 100
Post by: Carnut on November 30, 2009, 09:47:12 AM: Although there was an Atlas Allied Coupe Cisitalia replica this car is actually not one, although it was developed from it.
It is slightly later and has a completely different name and builder.
I need those facts for you to get your point!
Title: Re: NEH 100
Post by: Tackitt on November 30, 2009, 05:01:26 PM: Actually, the exact picture you are using is also on this website:
~~http://www.link-deleted.com~~

Here, a guy named Daniel Crispen who claims the picture is 20 years old, also claimed it to be a "Multiplex 186" built 1952-4. It was supposedly raced and later shown at the 1954 New York Automotive Show.
Check it out.
Title: Re: NEH 100
Post by: Paul Jaray on November 30, 2009, 05:32:04 PM: remeber the rule about posting links....
Title: Re: NEH 100
Post by: Carnut on November 30, 2009, 06:41:16 PM: You're there Tackitt, as I think that's the site I got this picture from (but as Paul Jaray says you are NOT supposed to post links; everyone has to find their own!).

So this particular car was, as I said, made slightly later than the Allied/Atlas cars by Multiplex Manufacturing Co (who made other cars too, which have already featured in other puzzles on this site).

I have seen this car mentioned elsewhere too and it's generally called a Multiplex Swallow (which sounds nicer than a '186'!) so that's what I am going to call it.

1 point for you anyway.
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 100: Multiplex Swallow 1954 (Cisitalia 202 lookalike)
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 01, 2009, 05:15:06 AM: The site you had quoted (link since deleted) links backward to a page identifying this as an Allied car. I think the text about it being built at Multiplex is a reference to where the car was assembled, and the engine fitted. The site states:

Quote
"This car was mentioned on the page discussing Darren Crispin's Allied bodied Specials. I don't have a lot of infor- mation on this car which I gather is a Doretti with an Allied body, created by Bill Binney.

I don't if this one will ever be truly solved. :P
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 100: Multiplex Swallow 1954 (Cisitalia 202 lookalike)
Post by: Paul Jaray on December 01, 2009, 05:36:25 AM: I believe this is a Multiplex 186, and here's what comes with this pic from the web.
I have a pic of a Multiplex 186 roadster, and it's just like this (hardtop excluded of course).

( we also had this http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=cc0a270d6e0c3a1f40d5255d29e1c224&topic=5729.0)
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 100: Multiplex Swallow 1954 (Cisitalia 202 lookalike)
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 01, 2009, 06:03:52 AM: Yep - saw that. The page on that site that brings you to that picture and article casts some doubt, in my mind.

I've sent you a PM.