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Title: Hazardous Junction Puzzle - Cars driven by characters named Kowalski. Solved by Ehhxekt and Impishg
Post by: Ray B. on May 14, 2010, 05:15:14 PM
Another connection puzzle.
Those five "cars" are connected by a very precise link.
Well... one of them is not really an automobile, even if it's a kind of car, and in this case the link isn't as direct. Nothing's perfect.

You have to find the link. Two points for this.
Then tell us how each of the cars is linked as precisely as possible (one point each). Identify the cars, make and model, will help you, but  as they're quite recognizable there's no point for this.

Hazardous 1  (http://www.autopuzzles.com/RayB.stuff2/Haz-1.jpg)
                                                                                    
Hazardous 2  (http://www.autopuzzles.com/RayB.stuff2/Haz-2.jpg)

Hazardous 3  (http://www.autopuzzles.com/RayB.stuff2/Haz-3.jpg)

Hazardous 4  (http://www.autopuzzles.com/RayB.stuff2/Haz-4.jpg)

Hazardous 5  (http://www.autopuzzles.com/RayB.stuff2/Haz-5.jpg)

Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: MG on May 14, 2010, 06:34:27 PM
Wow!  I had a notion, Ray. UNTIL I got to #4.  :o
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: Ray B. on May 14, 2010, 06:38:04 PM
Don't let N°4 stop you.

One last precision: Car #3 is the real thing, but for 1, 2 and 5 the pictures just show the same make, year and model of the cars that you have to find. It would have been too revealing if I had showed the real ones (and that's why the pictures are black and white).
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: Ray B. on May 20, 2010, 09:06:00 AM
Up one level!
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: Carnut on May 20, 2010, 10:48:05 AM
They've all featured in movies shot in San Francisco?
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: Ray B. on May 20, 2010, 10:49:49 AM
No, but you're on to something for some of them.
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: MG on May 20, 2010, 01:40:53 PM
Wow!  Good guess, CarNut!    :thumbsup:

I'm not even sure what #3 IS?!?!?!? It's done up in AMC TransAm racing colors but it looks more like a ChryCo product.........And I don't think that is a SF trolley. Looks more like NYC, but I can't read the sign on the front. And all trolley cars look the same to me anyway......... But I'm pretty sure NONE has ever entered a TransAm race.....


And it can't even be that one person once owned an  example of each. Like Steve McQueen or someone. How many people actually own a trolley car?

I dunno. I have no clue. Good puzzle Ray.  ;D
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: CyCarConsulting on May 20, 2010, 04:02:55 PM
Quote from: MG on May 20, 2010, 01:40:53 PM
Wow!  Good guess, CarNut!    :thumbsup:

I'm not even sure what #3 IS?!?!?!? It's done up in AMC TransAm racing colors but it looks more like a ChryCo product.........And I don't think that is a SF trolley. Looks more like NYC, but I can't read the sign on the front. And all trolley cars look the same to me anyway......... But I'm pretty sure NONE has ever entered a TransAm race.....


And it can't even be that one person once owned an  example of each. Like Steve McQueen or someone. How many people actually own a trolley car?

I dunno. I have no clue. Good puzzle Ray.  ;D


Number 3 is a 70's AMC Hornet aluminum rally car if that helps you.
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: CyCarConsulting on May 20, 2010, 04:40:59 PM
I believe these all fall under the link of "intermediate cars" including the train which if not a full engine only car, would be an intermediate car. Then of course the evolution to intermediate muscle car, and finally pony car.
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: Ray B. on May 20, 2010, 04:46:10 PM
Yes, #3 is a Hornet rally car.
But your theory is much too farfetched. As I said, Carnut was on to something.
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: Amsterdam on May 20, 2010, 04:58:24 PM
It would have been too revealing if I had showed the real ones (and that's why the pictures are black and white).
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So does this mean connection is color related?
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: Ray B. on May 21, 2010, 03:40:13 AM
Nope. It only means what I said: some cars are the same, same year and model as the connected cars. And not the exact color too. that's why I changed the pics to B&W. Identify the cars gets you no point, but it may help you find the link.
Quote from: MG on May 20, 2010, 01:40:53 PM
And it can't even be that one person once owned an  example of each. Like Steve McQueen or someone. How many people actually own a trolley car?
You're right, it's not that. As for the "trolley", it not New York and not San Francisco
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: Carnut on May 21, 2010, 04:49:31 AM
Is that tramcar even in the US?
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: Ray B. on May 21, 2010, 05:05:07 AM
It is.
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 21, 2010, 05:17:30 AM
Quite intriguing puzzle - I hope it gets to the Pro ranks
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: Carnut on May 21, 2010, 05:47:57 AM
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on May 21, 2010, 05:17:30 AM
Quite intriguing puzzle - I hope it gets to the Pro ranks

Don't tell me you know the answer to this one too?!
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: D-type on May 21, 2010, 03:06:09 PM
Could the link be PONY?

The cars could all be called  "pony" cars and the tram is a "pony" tram, ie the powered car of a two car set.
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: max on May 21, 2010, 03:14:15 PM
I'll go for the most famous streetcar of them all.

So, the tram is used on the Desire street route in New Orleans (Streetcar named Desire).
The Mustang at the top may be the one driven by Kevin Costner as Jim Garrison in JFK.
The Ford at the bottom, if there's poetic justice, would be driven by Jim Garrison as himself in The Big Easy - but I really don't know.
Anyway, the link is films set in New Orleans.
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: Ray B. on May 21, 2010, 04:40:13 PM
Quote from: max on May 21, 2010, 03:14:15 PM
I'll go for the most famous streetcar of them all.

So, the tram is used on the Desire street route in New Orleans (Streetcar named Desire).


Now, we're getting somewhere!
The link is not New Orleans, Jim Garrison has nothing to do with it, but it is the "Streetcar named Desire".
Keep at it, lads.
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: MG on May 21, 2010, 06:20:10 PM
Hmmmmmm......cars once owned by Tennessee Williams?     :idea:    Or Tennessee Ernie Ford!!!!!
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: Ray B. on May 22, 2010, 03:16:48 AM
No Tennesse of any kind. Ownership is not at stake for some of these cars, so it's not the link. But this is getting us closer yet.
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 22, 2010, 07:06:05 AM
Quote from: MG on May 21, 2010, 06:20:10 PM
Hmmmmmm......cars once owned by Tennessee Williams?     :idea:    Or Tennessee Ernie Ford!!!!!

You forgot Tennessee Tuxedo, but it's a moot point.
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: MG on May 22, 2010, 07:17:06 AM
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But this is getting us closer yet.

Maybe YOU think so, but it seems we are getting further away.   ???

I have never actually heard of Tennessee Tuxedo, but, spurred by OP's comment, I just had to let Google further my education:

(http://reviews.goldenagecartoons.com/2006/tuxedo/tuxedomenu.jpg)
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 22, 2010, 07:24:26 AM
Phineas J. Whoopee, you're the greatest! ;D
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: Ray B. on May 26, 2010, 05:26:22 PM
Pros, do you want to have a go at it?
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: Ehhxekt on May 26, 2010, 08:01:12 PM
I think the connection between the vehicles is the name 'Kowalski'.

Hazardous 2: 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T 440 – the main character (Barry Newman) in the film Vanishing Point
Hazardous 3: 1970 AMC Hornet – Kowalski brothers, rally drivers
Hazardous 4: The Streetcar named Desire – Stanley Kowalski, one of the characters in Tennessee Williams' drama
Hazardous 5: 1972 Ford Gran Torino Sport – Walt Kowalski, protagonist in the film Gran Torino
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: Ray B. on May 27, 2010, 03:44:01 AM
That's the ticket!
But it's more than ther name.
All these cars are driven by someone -real or fictitious- named Kowalski (the most popular Polish name in american films as it seems). Except the streetcar maybe, but we can assume that symbolically and given its name, Stanley Kowalski is the conductor of this machine.

Now to complete this:
- which Kowalski drives this Hornet? (locked for you 48 hours). You are allowed only one answer, of course.
- which Kowalski drove a Mustang, where? Open to all. (I couldn't find a clear picture of the actual car's wheelcovers. In any case, it's a 1966)
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: MG on May 27, 2010, 07:05:57 AM
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I think the connection between the vehicles is the name 'Kowalski'

Wow! That's inspired!   :applause:

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(the most popular Polish name in american films as it seems)

Without a doubt. It is the generic Polish name.

This is a great puzzle you have put together, Ray!    :hail:
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: Ray B. on May 27, 2010, 09:07:38 AM
I don't think it's so great but it  was fun.
And I don't know if the connection was obvious (maybe, for avid moviegoers, once you add the Challenger and the Gran Torino) or very far fetched - and so Ehhxekt very clever. Which he usually is, for sure.
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: Ray B. on May 27, 2010, 10:23:12 AM
Quote from: Ray B. on May 27, 2010, 03:44:01 AM

- which Kowalski drives this Hornet? (locked for you 48 hours). You are allowed only one answer, of course.
:bag:
Very stupid question by yours truly: they are two people in a rally car, so there is nothing to add to Ehhxekt answer.

Now, for your pleasure, a clue that I might have added sooner or later if he hadn't been so brilliant. But I feared it was too revealing.

 
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: ImpishGrin on May 28, 2010, 10:51:22 AM
Quote from: Ray B. on May 27, 2010, 03:44:01 AM

All these cars are driven by someone -real or fictitious- named Kowalski (the most popular Polish name in american films as it seems).
Now to complete this:
- which Kowalski drives this Hornet? (locked for you 48 hours). You are allowed only one answer, of course.- which Kowalski drove a Mustang, where? Open to all. (I couldn't find a clear picture of the actual car's wheelcovers. In any case, it's a 1966)

Well, probably because it is the most popular Polish last name in general ;) Like "Smith" in English. Incidentally Kowalski means "of or pertaining to a blacksmith" :P

As for the Mustang - do you mean Allan Kowalski? There was an investment banker and classic car lover who got murdered by his neighbour in Texas two years ago. His favourite car was said to be a white 1966 Ford Mustang.
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: Ray B. on May 28, 2010, 11:17:31 AM
Thanks for making me a more learned man, Impishgrin. I didn't know, I had never heard of a Kowalski in Poland. Which that I know very little about your country, doesn't it?

The last Kowalski isn't Allan. Here is a picture of the actual "Kowalski Mustang", the first one being just the same model. Not much of a clue maybe, but this has reached the Pro Section.
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: ImpishGrin on May 31, 2010, 03:49:16 AM
Is the Mustang's Kowalski a real person or a movie character?
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: Ray B. on May 31, 2010, 03:50:46 AM
A movie character.
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: ImpishGrin on May 31, 2010, 03:56:26 AM
Got it - Kitty Kowalski in "Superman Returns" :)

Cross-referencing ..... and ..... rulez :D
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: Ray B. on May 31, 2010, 04:13:01 AM
That's it. I erased your links because you're not supposed to post some, although clever puzzlers will know what you mean.
Title: Re: Hazardous Junction Puzzle
Post by: Ray B. on May 31, 2010, 04:24:06 AM
Ehhxekt 6 points, Impishgrin 1 point. The Hungarian Brigade strikes again, but loses one point to Poland.