Pro Puzzle - Open to All - Solved! Aluminum V8 Corvair Test Mule

[Otto Puzzell]

Professional AutoPuzzlers, this puzzle is for you and you alone! No rookie or expert level puzzlers may guess on this one.

While what this car one was is relatively easy to determine, to win the 2 points for this puzzle, you must give the background story on why it was modified to look like this.

With the vast knowledge of our pros, I don't think this will last long. Happy puzzling!

[pieter]

That's discrimination! (Not that I have the answer, but I can ID the car it was based on.)

[Otto Puzzell]

The puzzle doesn't ask for the car it's based on. 

[Ultra]

Professional AutoPuzzlers, this puzzle is for you and you alone! No rookie or expert level puzzlers may guess on this one.

I understand launching some puzzles for the Pros only right off the bat.  I am uncomfortable with them not being open to all AutoPuzzlers if they are in the Pro section.  Hence, I created a special sub-board for Pros and Feature Writers only, where Rookies and Experts cannot see it.  I put this thread in that sub-board and I encourage all of you Pros who are going to put up puzzles restricted to Pros only to put them in this section.

Thanks guys.

Ultra 

[Otto Puzzell]

10-4

[Otto Puzzell]

Moved

[pieter]

Okay - it's obviously based on a Corvair, but a Google with just that did not deliver. Even when I added 'turbine' in the search (my guess for the need to have such a high engine cover), it did not give anything other than the hairs on my neck standing on end.

[neilshouse]

Could this be the Calvair Corsair experimental vehicle with a Stirling engine?

I can't find any pictures of it but I thought it was worth a guess.

[Otto Puzzell]

Not a Stirling-cycle engine or turbine in there...

[pieter]

steam engine?

[Otto Puzzell]

No...

[Ultra]

However this puzzle does the reveal the existence of a special "Pros Only" board that the experts cannot see.  Experts, become a Feature Writer or Pro right away to access new levels of AutoPuzzles.



Pros, how about some really rare 2 point puzzles for the Pros Only section?

[pieter]

Okay, last guess - a helicopter engine?

[Allan L]

However this puzzle does the reveal the existence of a special "Pros Only" board that the experts cannot see. 

Eh?

[Otto Puzzell]

Okay, last guess - a helicopter engine?

Nope...

[grobmotorix]

I do not have any picture, but is it the 1967 Eshelman Golden Eagle Safety Car?

[Otto Puzzell]

No sir.

[neilshouse]

Does it have an unusual engine, or rather an engine more unusual than a flat 6?

[Otto Puzzell]

Less unusual, actually.

[Allemano]

Kind of early hybrid?

[Otto Puzzell]

As in a mixed gasoline engine / electric motor drivetrain? No.

[ImpishGrin]

Maybe the flat-6 was simply replaced with a big block V8, thus the enlarged engine area and more cooling?

[Otto Puzzell]

Maybe the flat-6 was simply replaced with a big block V8, thus the enlarged engine area and more cooling?

A-ha!

[Otto Puzzell]

[D-type]

Professional AutoPuzzlers, this puzzle is for you and you alone! No rookie or expert level puzzlers may guess on this one.

I understand launching some puzzles for the Pros only right off the bat.  I am uncomfortable with them not being open to all AutoPuzzlers if they are in the Pro section.  Hence, I created a special sub-board for Pros and Feature Writers only, where Rookies and Experts cannot see it.  I put this thread in that sub-board and I encourage all of you Pros who are going to put up puzzles restricted to Pros only to put them in this section.

Thanks guys.

Ultra 

Can I ask why you feel the need for such a sub-board?