A tricky connections puzzle! - Solved by guido66

barrett · July 05, 2010, 03:10:12 AM

Okay, here are three cars... one is very easy, one fairly easy and one quite unusual. However! You won't get any points for identifying the cars, I want to know what connection exists between them... I will award 2 points for the correct answer, and whilst there almost certainly exists many hundreds of ways to connect these cars, I am looking for one very specific (and quite fiendish!) connection in particular.
I'm putting this straight into Professional Puzzles so everyone can have a go, but rookies and experts please do give it a try!
good luck!

Paul Jaray · July 05, 2010, 07:57:30 AM

It has to be something regarding a coachbuilder or a style or a particular feature?

Carnut · July 05, 2010, 08:28:17 AM

Anything to do with curved glass?

barrett · July 05, 2010, 03:23:28 PM

Neither of those things... You need to think outside the automotive box. I'll make it easier and say that it is nothing to do with any shared feature of these cars...

Carnut · July 05, 2010, 06:45:41 PM

They were all driven by a Princess?!

barrett · July 05, 2010, 08:24:35 PM

not what i'm looking for...

Carnut · July 06, 2010, 09:43:09 AM

You did say it was tricky and I think you're right...
Would it be anything to do with American influence in their designs?
We have the 1958 Vauxhall Victor F-Type Estate car, this Victor being a design cribbed directly from another GM product, a Chevrolet, and being the first European car with the dog-leg panoramic windscreen.
The Ferrari 250GT Cabriolet Boano has those massive flamboyant fins.
But I'm struggling to see much American influence in the Renault 4CV Vutotal by Labourdette; maybe if I screw my eyes up...!

Am I barking up completely the wrong tree?

barrett · July 06, 2010, 09:48:39 AM

You certainly are! This link is not something that automotive historians would be concerned about...
It should be easier now you have named the cars, however!

Carnut · July 06, 2010, 12:10:46 PM

The Ferrari is actually the 410 Superamerica Cabriolet 1956 not the 250 GT (very similar from the rear..) but that still doesn't really help.
Anything to do with racing drivers?

barrett · July 06, 2010, 12:37:33 PM

No connection to racing drivers!

Carnut · July 06, 2010, 06:44:47 PM

The designers' wives were all called Ellena?!

barrett · July 07, 2010, 10:17:47 AM

Not that! (is that true of all the cars? or just a wild guess?)

Carnut · July 07, 2010, 10:25:20 AM

Quote from: barrett on July 07, 2010, 10:17:47 AM
Not that! (~~is that true of all the cars? or~~ just a wild guess?)

barrett · July 07, 2010, 10:52:58 AM

Let me know if you need a clue!

Carnut · July 07, 2010, 11:56:13 AM

Quote from: barrett on July 07, 2010, 10:52:58 AM
Let me know if you need a clue!

Yes - a big one please!
Nothing to do with presidents is it?

barrett · July 07, 2010, 03:21:03 PM

Nothing to do with presidents!
okay, the connection i'm looking for is in the Make or Model name of the cars! And as I said before, it's not something an automotive historian would care about....

Carnut · July 08, 2010, 08:03:39 AM

Hmmm if you say so. But I'll have to pass on this one as I'm not clever enough to see any connection.
Try as I might I can't see any connection between the words 'Vauxhall', 'Victor', 'Super', 'Estate' or 'Car' with 'Ferrari', 'Superamerica', 'Cabriolet', 'Boano', 'Renault', 'Vutotal' or 'Labourdette'.
I can also say the same about the words 'Ferrari', 'Superamerica' or 'Boano'
and about 'Renault', 'Vutotal' or 'Labourdette' with each other.
So someone else will have to get the 2 points going here.

Paul Jaray · July 08, 2010, 10:32:30 AM

Is it about a change in their names, like Supeamerica-Superfast or Vutotal-Vistotal?

barrett · July 08, 2010, 03:49:27 PM

Quote from: Paul Jaray on July 08, 2010, 10:32:30 AM
Is it about a change in their names, like Supeamerica-Superfast or Vutotal-Vistotal?

Not that!

Quote from: Carnut on July 08, 2010, 08:03:39 AM
Hmmm if you say so. But I'll have to pass on this one as I'm not clever enough to see any connection.
Try as I might I can't see any connection between the words 'Vauxhall', 'Victor', 'Super', 'Estate' or 'Car' with 'Ferrari', 'Superamerica', 'Cabriolet', 'Boano', 'Renault', 'Vutotal' or 'Labourdette'.
I can also say the same about the words 'Ferrari', 'Superamerica' or 'Boano'
and about 'Renault', 'Vutotal' or 'Labourdette' with each other.
So someone else will have to get the 2 points going here.

concentrate on those ones.........

guido66 · July 08, 2010, 04:41:13 PM

Casablanca?

Tom_I · July 08, 2010, 05:47:00 PM

Damn! I've been thinking about this all day, and just come up with an idea, only to have been beaten to it!

But I think Guido is right. Victor Laszlo, Signor Ferrari and Captain Louis Renault are all characters in the 1942 film Casablanca.

Carnut · July 08, 2010, 06:54:00 PM

I said it needed someone cleverer than me, and there are plenty of people around who fit that bill...!
And I know that film SO well too; possibly the best movie of all time. Still don't recognise Sr Ferrari mind..

barrett · July 09, 2010, 01:55:08 AM

Congratulations guido66!

The connection is indeed that all cars are also characters in the movie Casablanca. The two points are yours!

Bad luck Tom_I and Carnut, better luck next time guys....

Tom_I · July 09, 2010, 04:02:16 AM

Quote from: Carnut on July 08, 2010, 06:54:00 PM
Still don't recognise Sr Ferrari mind..

Ferrari was the Sydney Greenstreet character, on the left in the first photo. The second one shows Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid) on the left, and Captain Renault (Claude Rains) in the centre. The third is a gratuitous car shot.

Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman also starred.

Carnut · July 09, 2010, 04:38:24 AM

Quote from: barrett on July 09, 2010, 01:55:08 AM
Congratulations guido66!

The connection is indeed that all cars are also characters in the movie Casablanca. The two points are yours!

Bad luck Tom_I and Carnut, better luck next time guys....

Good puzzle Barrett!
And well done Guido66 - a guy On The Ball!

This film is just about my favourite movie of all time and I have a huge poster of it half way up my staircase at home.. and still I didn't get it!
And Bogie is my greatest (movie) hero of all time too, slightly ahead of Clint Eastwood..

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