Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2011 => Topic started by: Otto Puzzell on September 08, 2010, 03:50:56 AM
Title: Puzzle #1724 - Junior Hot Rod by John G. Stahlnecker
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 08, 2010, 03:50:56 AM
Please, respond below and share your knowledge of this automobile's builder and origins.
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Title: Re: Puzzle #1724
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 16, 2010, 05:41:18 AM
Experts
Title: Re: Puzzle #1724
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 23, 2010, 04:37:18 AM
Quick Pro point?
Title: Re: Puzzle #1724
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 22, 2010, 04:16:32 AM
Not a single guess. :sigh:
Title: Re: Puzzle #1724
Post by: Paul Jaray on December 22, 2010, 04:24:43 AM
I'm sure I've found the mk2 version...
Title: Re: Puzzle #1724
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 22, 2010, 04:28:00 AM
;D
An eagle-eyed Puzzler may recognize some of the body parts used to make the puzzle car, which might lead them to the answer.
Title: Re: Puzzle #1724
Post by: woodinsight on December 22, 2010, 12:42:38 PM
The front exhaust pipes look as though it's mimicking the French Dechaux. However I'm sure that's got nothing to do with it. Presumably the bodywork incorporates the front wings of an adult car. Is it European?
Title: Re: Puzzle #1724
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 22, 2010, 12:49:10 PM
The engine is European. The fenders (wings) are from the rear of a full size automobile from the States.
Title: Re: Puzzle #1724
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 22, 2010, 01:02:18 PM
The car was constructed outside of the US
Title: Re: Puzzle #1724
Post by: woodinsight on December 22, 2010, 01:07:18 PM
Somewhere such as a US forces base overseas?
Title: Re: Puzzle #1724
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 22, 2010, 01:37:56 PM
Yes!
Title: Re: Puzzle #1724
Post by: woodinsight on December 22, 2010, 01:44:58 PM
Narrowed down to Germany? I must say I have no clue as to the identity of the car at the moment
Title: Re: Puzzle #1724
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 22, 2010, 02:08:22 PM
Actually, I don't know where the builder was stationed. Germany is a good bet, however. Since you hit on that tidbit, I'll tell you the engine is indeed German.
Locked for you to search a bit more.
Title: Re: Puzzle #1724
Post by: woodinsight on December 22, 2010, 02:15:58 PM
Engine may be a Fichtel Sachs but that's really a guess off the top of my head at the moment!
Title: Re: Puzzle #1724
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 22, 2010, 02:26:43 PM
Don't know the maker of the engine, only that it's from a German 2-wheeler.
Title: Re: Puzzle #1724
Post by: woodinsight on December 22, 2010, 02:38:36 PM
Thanks for the lock Otto but it will take me some time to come up with another guess so I suggest if I don't reply within 24hrs please open it up for others
Title: Re: Puzzle #1724
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 22, 2010, 02:49:49 PM
Understood. Until this time tomorrow, locked for you. After that - open season!
A clue: this car appears in a magazine oft used by AutoPuzzlers as a source of puzzle material. Quite popular, it is.
Title: Re: Puzzle #1724
Post by: Otto Puzzell on January 22, 2011, 07:04:33 AM
To the hole with you, little fella. :(
Title: Re: Puzzle #1724
Post by: Allemano on January 22, 2011, 10:21:50 AM
Will take a stab on this, though not today...
Title: Re: Puzzle #1724
Post by: Otto Puzzell on February 27, 2011, 05:31:49 AM
Today ;)?
Title: Re: Puzzle #1724
Post by: Otto Puzzell on August 04, 2011, 05:05:23 AM
Or today ;)
Title: Re: Puzzle #1724
Post by: Otto Puzzell on August 06, 2011, 07:39:14 AM
I know they use that first pictured clue item in Germany. Not sure about the second...
Title: Re: Puzzle #1724
Post by: Allemano on August 06, 2011, 08:29:44 AM
Is clue 1 of reply#20 referring to an industrial region?
Title: Re: Puzzle #1724
Post by: Otto Puzzell on August 06, 2011, 09:01:30 AM
No. The clues, combined, provide a path to the answer.
In other words, the clues do not stand alone.
Title: Re: Puzzle #1724
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 23, 2011, 04:35:14 AM
This puzzle comes from a very well-mined source. I'm really baffled by its durable elusiveness. ???
Title: Re: Puzzle #1724
Post by: Allemano on September 23, 2011, 04:40:09 AM
The clues are a kind of rebus?
Title: Re: Puzzle #1724
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 23, 2011, 04:55:02 AM
Title: Re: Puzzle #1724
Post by: pnegyesi on December 19, 2011, 02:38:35 PM
I found it! Published in 1954
Title: Re: Puzzle #1724
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 19, 2011, 03:05:46 PM
The necker knob showed the way! ;D
Merry Christmas, pnegyesi
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Title: Re: Puzzle #1724 - Junior Hot Rod by John G. Stahlnecker
Post by: pnegyesi on December 19, 2011, 03:13:55 PM
Thanks. Wishing you Merry Christmas too
Title: Re: Puzzle #1724 - Junior Hot Rod by John G. Stahlnecker
Post by: Tom_I on December 19, 2011, 05:26:14 PM
You learn something new every day at Autopuzzles!
I've never heard the term "necker knob" before. In the UK, if these things are called anything at all, they are referred to as steering wheel knobs, or spinners. I don't think they have ever been popular as a regular car accessory here, but are normally used in cars adapted for disabled drivers, to make one-handed steering easier.
Title: Re: Puzzle #1724 - Junior Hot Rod by John G. Stahlnecker
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 20, 2011, 04:31:36 AM
My wife is disabled, and has one of these (along with other hand controls) in her car. She was also unaware of 'necker knobs' until I ribbed her about it.
I remembered seeing these in the JC Whitney catalogs I used to get in the mail.