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!
That's discrimination! (Not that I have the answer, but I can ID the car it was based on.)
The puzzle doesn't ask for the car it's based on. :)
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on November 29, 2008, 07:46:49 AM
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
10-4
Moved
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.
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.
Not a Stirling-cycle engine or turbine in there...
steam engine?
No...
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.
O0
Pros, how about some really rare 2 point puzzles for the Pros Only section?
:applause:
Okay, last guess - a helicopter engine?
Quote from: Ultra on December 09, 2008, 05:43:29 AM
However this puzzle does the reveal the existence of a special "Pros Only" board that the experts cannot see.
Eh?
I do not have any picture, but is it the 1967 Eshelman Golden Eagle Safety Car?
No sir.
Does it have an unusual engine, or rather an engine more unusual than a flat 6?
Less unusual, actually.
Kind of early hybrid?
As in a mixed gasoline engine / electric motor drivetrain? No.
Maybe the flat-6 was simply replaced with a big block V8, thus the enlarged engine area and more cooling?
Quote from: ImpishGrin on December 10, 2008, 03:39:10 PM
Maybe the flat-6 was simply replaced with a big block V8, thus the enlarged engine area and more cooling?
A-ha!
(http://www.autopuzzles.com/smi8.gif)
Quote from: Ultra on December 02, 2008, 04:40:34 AM
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on November 29, 2008, 07:46:49 AM
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?
With the increasing membership, rookie and expert puzzles are being promoted to Pro status with less frequency, which has the unfortunate effect of making the site less enjoyable for those pros that built it up.
Having a Pros and Feature Writers section lets them participate in puzzles other than the mind benders the 100+ non-pros haven't solved.
Quote from: D-type on January 09, 2009, 06:15:54 PM
Can I ask why you feel the need for such a sub-board?
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=6746.0
A Crown Manufacturing Co. Inc. conversion?
lookielookie!
As far as I know, this was done in-house at GM.
:lurk:
This picture was taken at the GM Heritage Collection. I don't know if it was sold during the recent sell-off by GM of many of these cars.
Off to the black hole with you, little Corvair!
Another look, should anyone have an interest.
(http://www.autopuzzles.com/FPO1a.jpg)
I found this:
He may have found it!
Wow - I missed this reply. I believe the second car mentioned is our mystery car. I've never seen the descriptive text with a picture, or vice versa., but that's as close as we're likely to get.
We can put a fork in this one - it's done!
Time to pull that fork out.
The puzzle car is in fact, the Calvair. Special Interest Autos #168 from November/December 1998, has a full writeup by Michael Lamm. The Hemmings blog posted a copy of the article in December of 2013.
Another view of the non-V8-powered Calvair:
Is there a book or web site, indicating this is a Corvair with an aluminum V8?
Yes
So, did they make two hump-backed Corvair prototypes with completely different drivetrains, or was one car both the V8 mule and the Calvair at different times?
I don't know
The attached image from Guido66 indicates:
... "small iron V8 mounted backwards in a body that was stock except for louvers in the rear fenders and a bulged-up fiberglass deck lid."
This is not the Calvair as shown in the original puzzle image. Guido66's attached image says the second prototype V8 Corvair only had a grill and oversize tires to distinguish it from a normal Corvair.
Presenting, the first Corvair V8 prototype described in the attached image from Guido66:
View of the engine: