Puzzle #1677 - Shrimplin Tucker Lookalike Buick

[Otto Puzzell]

Know what it is?

Please, respond below and identify what this is, and who built it.
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[Ray B.]

 

[Otto Puzzell]

Patience

[knightfan26917]

I'm guessing it is a Tucker roadster of some sort, but no clue otherwise.





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[Otto Puzzell]

I'm guessing it is a Tucker roadster of some sort, but no clue otherwise.

It sure looks like one, but is not.

[Otto Puzzell]

A fast Expert point?

[pguillem]

It seems to be a Buick custom-built by Norman Timbs, but it's not the Norman Timbs Buick Special.

[Otto Puzzell]

Did Timbs build this one? I know it appears on pages that also feature Timbs and the real Tuckers, but...

[Amsterdam]

All I can find it is called a Tucker Custom Lookalike

quote:
Convertible
Rumors have circulated for years about a Tucker convertible being worked on in the styling department of the Tucker factory. According to Alex Tremulis, no such car was ever built. Pictures of a Tucker convertible that is claimed to be body No. 57 that Alex worked on has been circulating the web for some time now. Some claim it is the real deal, while others trace the car back to the Tucker auction, were a former employee bought a body shell that he attempted to turn the car into a convertible. According to Tucker historians, that body was body no. 55. In February 2009 the Tucker Convertible was listed for sale on E-bay by Benchmark Classics with 1 000 000 USD as starting price. The car had a buy it now price of 5 000 000 USD. The car was prseneted as "Project Vera", a project that was being worked on in the experimental department when the plant closed down. According to the listing, a former Tucker designer was once interviewed about Project Vera years after the plant closed. One of the questions that he was asked was "Was there a Tucker convertible project ever started at the Tucker plant?" He responded "Yes, but I thought that the project had been scrapped when the plant closed."

[Carnut]

Did I read you right? $5 million?!
Is that a trifle optimistic or plain idiotic?!

[Ray B.]

The Tucker convertible, whether a fraud (as I tend to believe, among many) or not, was discussed before on Autopuzzles: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=8841.0
Whatever, it's not this car.

[Otto Puzzell]

Right.

I'm pretty sure the puzzle car IS Buick based. I'm not seeing the Timbs connection, other than a Kevin Baconesque 6 degrees of separation.

[Otto Puzzell]

Pro time

[Ray B.]

I believe that i's been done by a guy named Shrimplin (on the picture?)

It appeared in 1952 in Trend Book No. 105 - Restyle Your Car

[Otto Puzzell]

Right