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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2011 => Topic started by: Paul Jaray on November 01, 2010, 02:35:06 PM
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Please, respond below and share your knowledge of what this is, and who built it.
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2cv based?
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I have few info about, but I suspect it is not 2cv-based.
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This car is a sort of test-car for some elements the builder make for another car, quite known...
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Morgan?
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Not Morgan.
A big help: the car for which these elements are tested is totally different from the puzzle car.
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Dutch?
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Not Duch.
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German?
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The ...builder... is German, the car that is going to use those parts isn't.
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Bentley?
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Not Bentley, but the country is right.
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Mini?
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Not Mini...
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Vauxhall
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More exclusive...
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Rolls?
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I missed your reply...sorry about that.
Not R-R.
It is a well known brand, these days in a really good shape.
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Aston Martin?
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Not A-M.
This brand is British but the new owners aren't...
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Jaguar?
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Not Jaguar...you heard a lot about it in the latest months for at least 2 different reasons...
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I guess that leaves Lotus?
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Maybe not. :P
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Land Rover?
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Lotus is correct!
(I don't know why, but sometimes I do not notice the 'new' topics...)
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Prototype to the later Lotus/
Toyota Isuzu front-wheel-drive Elan?
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(I don't know why, but sometimes I do not notice the 'new' topics...)
Just occasionally they don't flag up..
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(I don't know why, but sometimes I do not notice the 'new' topics...)
Just occasionally they don't flag up..
In this case choose the "All Unread Topics" link!
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Back to the puzzle, then:
As stated in my reply #3, this is a test car for some elements made by a 'company' for a model of the past Lotus lineup.
It seems that the same man is also busy with another, quite different job.
I'm after the name of this man, since the 'company' has nothing to do with cars.
I know it's confusing, but when it will be found, probably some of our members will be able to explain.
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Is this a Peter Stevens project?
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Not from any known name.
The key to find this car is to investigate on the builder's main activity, the nation and the Lotus model for these components.
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Did the builder make other forms of transport (i.e. not cars?).
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Nothing to do (directly) with cars.
It's from Europe, but not Italy or UK.
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Did they/do they make automotive componants?
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Swatch?
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Not Swatch or any known maker of cars or any other object...it's more a provider of a service...let's say like a firm...
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A bank?
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To me, it looks like it's built on an Elise chassis.
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Not a bank and not Elise-based.
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Made by/for an insurance company?
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OK, it's not my fault...sometimes I don't get the NEW script.
Not an insurance company, but not that far...
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Was it a car created specially for an advertising promotional campaign (for an insurance firm, bank, etc.)?
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Nope.
This is a test car, a mule, used to test the 'elements' built.
I found a page on the web about this car but all the info (name of the builder, email address and the website itself) points to a different activity...
This man has got a different job than a builder of parts for that Lotus model.
I suggest you to find: this job, the country and the model...then google will do the rest.
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you need 3 elements to find this, all of them quite easy...then Google can do the rest.
1: place (europe not UK)
2: job (...like a firm...without Tom...)
3: model (not the current line-up but this name is the 1st you should think when you name Lotus....)
You will find it in the 1st page of results then, I just tried.
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Place: Germany?
Job: anything to do with a GPS navigation company?
Model: Esprit?
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1: Yes.
3: Yes.
2: Not that Tom...
Probably my clue was too complicated. It's like a firm, and when I think of this word I remind a movie\book....
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A lawfirm?
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Now you have all you need!
(just a very slight intuition and it will be in the 1st page of results googling the right words)
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Rechtsanwaltskanzlei Jörg Helmling
Fragen / Questions ? Mail to Lotus@kanzlei-helmling.de ;D
Impressum:Jörg Helmling, Willstätterstraße 30, 90449 Nürnberg Tel.:0911/4622390 Fax:0911/619442
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From the infos the website provides it's not obvious if this is a Lotus test vehicle for their own products or only a self-built spare part car. I would rather say it's the latter.
They write "nur so zu Spaß" which means nothing more than "only for fun" and like that mini-scooter below there's nothing mentioned about its purpose/history.
However: what makes you find these obscure mysteries again and again? :scratch: :hail:
(for me the biggest mystery at all... :D)
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Rechtsanwaltskanzlei Jörg Helmling
Fragen / Questions ? Mail to Lotus@kanzlei-helmling.de ;D
Impressum:Jörg Helmling, Willstätterstraße 30, 90449 Nürnberg Tel.:0911/4622390 Fax:0911/619442
Was this all you where looking for? As said by Allemano no further info then ''/And just for fun, we have the / testing just for fun.''
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Amsterdam, you found it!
No other info I need (because you saw yourself the source isn't that generous) and I'll move it soon.
Sorry for being late...
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No problem, glad the answer is sufficient. :thumbsup: Great puzzle and indeed a very strange combination of activeties on his site
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Hello Guys,
I am the builder of the car you were looking for. If you are interrested some details:
The chassis is a Lotus Excel SE from 1987. The engine has special cams and is completly worked. It has 190 hp at 6960 revs normaly. With a switchable ZF-charger it has about 280 hp at 6850 revs.
Rear differential is changed from 3.9:1 to 4.3:1 and has a LSD out of a Toyota rallye-car.
The car is streetlegal.
The weight is around 850 kg. The bodywork of the car is designed and built by myself. It is a mixture of an anti-roll-cage which holds the seats and the steering and some alloy strenght with gfk. That was the easiest way to built. And the chassis is much stronger. That's good for a well working adjustable suspension with race coils and dampers.
I lowered the chassis/suspension about 10 cm and placed most of the parts as low as posible.
I built the car from 1990-1995 on my own an use it since 1995 in daily traffic. The car did about 50.000 km in the new dress. Last year in August I drove in one day 1.621 km through France to Spain. 5 Days later back. The only problem I had, was the heat in and outside the car. No technical damage!
Equiped with semisportive tyres the racetrack is the place it does it's best. The car knows the Hockenheimring better then me.
Regards
Jörg
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Great post, thank you Jörg!
Danke für Deinen Kommentar!
Einer der Gründe warum dieses Forum so fasziniert, ist, dass sich hin und wieder die Erbauer/Besitzer der Autos melden, die hier als Rätsel eingestellt wurden! Und dazu auch noch eine Vielzahl von Informationen liefern.
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Thank you Jörg!
Have you got other pics of it? The front view is quite original, I wonder how it is in the other views.
Nice job! :thumbsup:
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Hy Guys,
tried to put some pics in. But I can't. The system didn't work to copy my file.
I need an advice. Sorry
Jörg
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http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=17103.0 ;)
If you need to post more than a picture there is the "(more attachments)" option...if it's still not working, make sure they are of the right type: jpg, gif, png, jpeg, mpeg, etc...
if it is still not clear, just ask!
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Ok, if anyone gives me his email adress, I can send him the pictures
I don't find a more attechments button
Regards
Jörg
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Email sent! ;)