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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2010 => Topic started by: Carnut on April 09, 2010, 09:01:11 AM
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A nice easy Rookie point for identifying this car and when it appeared:
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Is that a Egan design by any chance? The same guy who helped design the Tucker?
Alex Tremulis was the chief designer I think, maybe him?
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(http://photos.autoexpress.co.uk/images/front_picture_library_UK/dir_598/car_photo_299289_7.jpg)
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AFAIK neither Egan nor Tremulis were involved in the design of the puzzle car.
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All right then, an easy Expert point...
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1954 Pontiac Strato Streak at the 1953 Motorama show.
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1954 Pontiac Strato Streak at the 1953 Motorama show.
See - I told you it was easy!
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And to answer kach22i it was designed by Harley Earl:
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And here's the original puzzle picture, un-doctored:
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You doctored it well but you left the emblem on the trunk, which is the Pontiac signature of these years.
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You doctored it well but you left the emblem on the trunk, which is the Pontiac signature of these years.
Oops.. I didn't know that and seems no-one else did either - at least no Rookies!
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Pretty car.
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That 3-piece rear window was used on the 58 Vauxhall Velox/Cresta completely unchanged!
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Oldsmobile and Buick also used that rear window configuration in '57. Oddly, Pontiac opted for a single-pane, wrap-around design.
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And full-size too. I guess that on the Vauxhall it had shrinked some.
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And full-size too. I guess that on the Vauxhall it had shrinked some.
Guess so, although you can't tell from pictures.
The UK car would undoubtedly have been a 75% scale model of the US one, although I remember it being utterly outrageous over here back in 1958; but for small boys like me at the time it was The Way Forward!
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And to answer kach22i it was designed by Harley Earl:
Thanks, I thought it would be someone more obscure. :-[
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In color