One artist, and one car...
Tell me who the artist is and what car he's associated with for a point!
OK, no activity on this one... time to move to Experts.
Pros?
Is that Dana Andrews?
The movie I most remember of his was "Hot Rods to Hell" in which he drove a '61 Plymouth Belvedere four door while being harassed by degenerate hot rodders! Is that the car?
Glad to see some activity on this, but... nope.
A couple of hints:
(1) The nature of his art is such that you wouldn't know his face from it.
(2) The association between artist & car is very close -- you wouldn't associate another man with the car, or another car with the man.
A writer?
Nope.
Musician?
Also nope.
In the movies, somewhere behind the camera?
Nope. Think closer to the more specific sense of "artist."
I don't think there is a specific sense in the meaning it would define a specialty. In my country, at least, the most commonly (and wrongly) understanding is "pop singer". Nevertheless, I think that you may mean "painter".
So, if a painter, let's start "around the world in 80 days": British?
Yes, you're right about the direction I was trying to go in with that. It's not "painter" but that's closer than anything else guessed so far. And not British.
Sculptor?
Or car designer ;) ?
Not sculptor.
Not known as a car designer (except in the case of the one car that this puzzle is concerned with).
Architect?
Nope. Think a little less "seriously."
Alexander Calder?
Quote from: ftg3plus4 on June 25, 2009, 03:54:12 PM
Nope. Think a little less "seriously."
I hope you don't mean something like magician or illusionist. That would be a little far fetched.
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on June 25, 2009, 05:16:27 PM
Alexander Calder?
Nope.
Quote from: Ray B. on June 25, 2009, 05:37:44 PM
I hope you don't mean something like magician or illusionist. That would be a little far fetched.
No, I don't. I'm sticking with basic, 2-D visual art.
Thanks. I'll keep looking.
He might look like a young Theodor Seuss Geisel, Dr. Seuss, without a beard. In which case the car would be this fire truck.
Very interesting guess, but not correct.
Another hint: In the spirit of most of my "Name That Make" puzzles, this involves a somewhat-obscure make of car, rather than, say, a weird custom one-off or a specimen of some well-known brand (i.e., this isn't "so-and-so and his customized psychedelic 1964 Austin Mini").
Is it either Ed or Jim Gaylord?
Nope.
He's much more well-known for his art than the car (which I'm assuming is not the case with the Gaylords).
So: an illustrator?
Or a comic strip artist?
Quote from: Ray B. on June 26, 2009, 08:59:25 AM
Or a comic strip artist?
Not quite, but that's the closest anyone has gotten so far.
All right, allow me to sum up your answers:
2-D visual artist, not a painter, the closest being comic strip (or comic book, meant I) artist, and, not an illustrator.
What's left? A cartoonist, like Chas Addams of my own A&C#19?
I am in that line of work myself and and can't figure what else.
EDIT: Don't bother replying. I found him. I just need to find the car now.
Quote from: Ray B. on June 26, 2009, 09:50:25 AM
All right, allow me to sum up your answers:
2-D visual artist, not a painter, the closest being comic strip (or comic book, meant I) artist, and, not an illustrator.
What's left? A cartoonist, like Chas Addams of my own A&C#19?
I am in that line of work myself and and can't figure what else.
Yes, a cartoonist like Mr. Addams. In fact, if I'd known that's who the subject of your A&C was, I might have waited longer before posting this puzzle!
EDIT: Too late, I already replied!
It's the New Yorker cartoonist, Peter Arno, and the car is the Albatross, a car he designed and had built. It was last seen parked at a gas station in Chicago in the mid-1980s.
From another source: The Albatross was an American sports car venture that was planned in 1939, but that never got off the ground. The plan had been to market an ultra-streamlined four-seat tourer body, built on a standard Mercury chassis, based on a European custom-made car owned by cartoonist Peter Arno. The proposed car was advertised in at least one periodical, but it is doubtful whether or not any cars were actually produced.
I still have to find a picture if possible.
Don't worry about any connection with the Addams puzzle, there is none. I only recognized Arno today on a web page I've just discovered.
That's it! Well done!
BTW, if anyone can provide a picture of the Albatross, I'd really like to see it.
I only could find that he had it built by J.S. Inskip (of Brewster & Co) and that it looked a bit like the 540K Mercedes by Erdmann and Rossi.
See the top left of page 23 of "The Standard Catalog of American Cars, 1805-1942" for a picture of the Albatross - the only one it seems. The chassis is a streached 1939 Mercury.
Please, show us!
Bingo!
It just popped up as a SIA flashback in the Hemmings blog.
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That would make it suitable for the 'Rare Car of The Week'
Hail SIA!
have I missed something or do we link from now on? :scratch:
What you missed I don't know.
But what I missed is this: who takes the decision t move topics to 'Rare car of the week', when, and who does it.
When I know I can add the files of the SIA article.
Putting the picture right here, although the article at the link shows other angles as well.
Is it just me, or does this look a lot more like a recent, vaguely '30s-inspired car than one actually made in the '30s?