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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2011 => Topic started by: Otto Puzzell on April 09, 2011, 06:45:15 AM

Title: Puzzle #1984 - Silver Sabre Patriomatic Funfighter
Post by: Otto Puzzell on April 09, 2011, 06:45:15 AM
Know the story? For 1 point, please respond below to identify the vehicle in this illustration.

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Title: Re: Puzzle #1984
Post by: Otto Puzzell on April 16, 2011, 03:05:44 AM
Experts
Title: Re: Puzzle #1984
Post by: hugo90 on April 17, 2011, 02:30:33 PM
Is this design by Bruce McCall?
Title: Re: Puzzle #1984
Post by: fyreline on April 17, 2011, 06:06:59 PM
I agree with Hugo - sure looks like a Zany Afternoons illustration. I'll have to see if I can dig out my copy, I haven't looked at it in years.
Title: Re: Puzzle #1984
Post by: Otto Puzzell on April 18, 2011, 05:02:38 AM
Quote from: hugo90 on April 17, 2011, 02:30:33 PM
Is this design by Bruce McCall?

It is
Title: Re: Puzzle #1984
Post by: fyreline on April 18, 2011, 06:04:02 PM
Well, it's not in Bruce's book Zany Afternoons although many other similar (and hilarious) vehicles are . . . I guess we'll just have to keep looking!
Title: Re: Puzzle #1984
Post by: Otto Puzzell on April 19, 2011, 04:14:39 AM
It's well worth the trouble  ;)
Title: Re: Puzzle #1984
Post by: Otto Puzzell on April 26, 2011, 04:28:18 AM
Pro's?
Title: Re: Puzzle #1984
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 03, 2011, 05:03:16 AM
Black hole?
Title: Re: Puzzle #1984
Post by: Aaron65 on May 03, 2011, 05:30:37 PM
From goofspot.com...

Silver Sabre Patriomatic Funfighter, 1951

The accompanying text that went with this image reads, "If the Korean Conflict is all but forgotten today, where does that leave the Silver Sabre?  Commemorating a stalemated U.N. police action on the Korean Peninsula with a civilian American dream car was possibly a case of patriotic fervor winning out over commercial appeal.  The single-seat Silver Sabre, with its jet-fighter styling, aircraft-type cockpit, simulated aerodynamics, and a gunsight-type hood ornament that flipped up to reveal a cigarette lighter, did make a dramatic sight.  But its day in the sun proved to be cloudy, with early showers.  After negative response at auto shows - perhaps influenced by the clever but misguided stagecraft that had it rolling over a battalion of stuntment dressed as Chinese soldiers every hour on the hour - the Sabre was loaned to the U.S. Air Force as a recruiting tool, then went into mothballs when nine out of ten would-be recruits declined their free drives and joined the navy.  Its final chapter proved to be its noblest: purchased by the CIA at a tag sale, it was mailed to North Korea with no return address in 1959 as an experiment in psychological warfare."

It's from the book
The Last Dream-O-Rama. The Cars Detroit Forgot To Build, 1950-1960
Title: Re: Puzzle #1984
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 06, 2011, 05:35:06 AM
That's the car.
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