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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2011 => Topic started by: Tom_I on May 30, 2011, 12:03:18 PM

Title: TEI #017 - Solved. Albany, 1971.
Post by: Tom_I on May 30, 2011, 12:03:18 PM
Rather rakish wings/fenders on this "gentleman's speedy roadster".

For a point, can you identify the make and approximate year?

Title: Re: TEI #017
Post by: Tom_I on June 05, 2011, 11:40:02 AM
Experts?
Title: Re: TEI #017
Post by: Tackitt on June 05, 2011, 05:54:14 PM
Buick Model 10, Approximately 1910?
Title: Re: TEI #017
Post by: Tom_I on June 06, 2011, 04:37:36 AM
It does look a bit like a Buick, but it isn't one. The year is wrong too.
Title: Re: TEI #017
Post by: Tackitt on June 06, 2011, 05:59:02 PM
Am I overlooking the obvious? Is it a Ford Model T, around 1915?
Title: Re: TEI #017
Post by: Tom_I on June 07, 2011, 04:35:09 AM
Sorry, not a Ford, not 1915.
Title: Re: TEI #017
Post by: Tackitt on June 07, 2011, 01:54:06 PM
How about a Moon, Model 30, approximately 1912?
Title: Re: TEI #017
Post by: Tom_I on June 07, 2011, 02:09:55 PM
Sorry - wrong on both counts again.
Title: Re: TEI #017
Post by: Tom_I on June 11, 2011, 04:36:59 AM
Let's see how long this lasts with the professionals.
Title: Re: TEI #017
Post by: Otto Puzzell on June 11, 2011, 06:14:59 AM
Pratt Elkhart?
Title: Re: TEI #017
Post by: Tom_I on June 11, 2011, 06:22:15 AM
No, sorry.
Title: Re: TEI #017
Post by: Otto Puzzell on June 11, 2011, 06:30:36 AM
From a spin-off division of a better-known brand?
Title: Re: TEI #017
Post by: Tom_I on June 11, 2011, 06:31:46 AM
No, a small independent manufacturer.
Title: Re: TEI #017
Post by: Otto Puzzell on June 11, 2011, 06:36:36 AM
From the American Midwest?
Title: Re: TEI #017
Post by: Tom_I on June 11, 2011, 06:50:24 AM
No, sir.
Title: Re: TEI #017
Post by: Otto Puzzell on June 11, 2011, 06:57:53 AM
From the US at all?
Title: Re: TEI #017
Post by: Tom_I on June 11, 2011, 07:00:28 AM
No, it's not from the US. That narrows it down a bit. ;)
Title: Re: TEI #017
Post by: Otto Puzzell on June 11, 2011, 07:22:24 AM
From somewhere in the Americas?
Title: Re: TEI #017
Post by: Tom_I on June 11, 2011, 09:09:54 AM
Not from the North or South American continents.
Title: Re: TEI #017
Post by: Otto Puzzell on June 11, 2011, 09:26:01 AM
UK?
Title: Re: TEI #017
Post by: Tom_I on June 11, 2011, 09:40:05 AM
Yes, it's from the UK.
Title: Re: TEI #017
Post by: Quiller on June 11, 2011, 03:03:06 PM
I think this must be the Albany from 1971
Title: Re: TEI #017
Post by: Tom_I on June 11, 2011, 03:28:26 PM
That's exactly what it is! Well done. I think it's the gear lever which looks incongruous, and gives it away.

These cars were made by the Albany Motor Carriage Company in Christchurch, Dorset from 1971 until 1997. They were not intended as replicas of any particular model, but this does look like a Buick Model 10 from this angle. It's an early example, based on Morris Minor running gear. Later ones used Triumph mechanicals. I don't know how many were made altogether, but 110 were produced in the first six years. From 1992 they were made for export only.

There ought to be quite a few lurking around out there, but I've never seen one.