Whaddyacallit #402 - Brooks Stevens' Western Clipper

[Ray B.]

Ever seen this ?

If you did, please respond below and let us know the make and model of the car posted here.
I have no identification for this car myself, just some clues. So if you find it this will earn you two points.

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[Ray B.]

Experts?

[faksta]

Could it be French? It doesn't look a typical American streamliner.

[Ray B.]

It's not French.
I'll say it right away so you won't have to play Phileas Fogg: it's most probably American.

[Ray B.]

Pros?

[Otto Puzzell]

Coachbulit, for a well-known builder of trucks?

[Ray B.]

As I said above, it's for you to find and I know nothing of this vehicle. Except (this is the clue I was speaking of) that the picture was probably taken in the Milwaukee area.

[Otto Puzzell]

I'll have to go with my standard guess of (Wisconsin's favorite son) Brooks Stevens. I'll follow that hunch and go digging.

[Ray B.]

Sure, I'd do the same. Good luck.

[Ray B.]

What about putting this one to be nursed in the Pros secret garden?

[Ray B.]

Guys, I've recently stumbled on some informations that may confirm the Milwaukee clue and lead us towards the answer. It's easily avalaible.
Anyone wants to try?

[Otto Puzzell]

Is the chassis an International Harvester?

[Ray B.]

Maybe, but I don't know about this. The clue that I found is rather about its conception and outer shell.

[pnegyesi]

conception, so the info is about the purpose of this minivan?

[Ray B.]

Conception may not be the right word. Design would be more correct.

[pnegyesi]

Did you manage to get confirmation that this one was designed by Brooks Stevens after all?

[Otto Puzzell]

This resembles some other vehicles designed by Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky

[Allemano]

This resembles some other vehicles designed by Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky

[Otto Puzzell]

If you have it, Allemano, please proceed. I've spent a lot of time on this one, and have come up empty-handed.

[Allemano]

If you have it, Allemano, please proceed. I've spent a lot of time on this one, and have come up empty-handed.

No it's about the name you've mentioned. Could be relevant on some other topic...

[Ray B.]

I am going to do something unusual: lock it for THREE puzzlers (Otto Puzzell,pnegyesi and Allemano) for the next 72 hours.
Why? Because they're the only ones who made a guess (Otto first) that seem quite close to the truth.
So one point to the first to find the same additional informations I've found, leading us possibly to this puzzle solution - and explains why.
The second point to the first to find definite evidsence, if it exists, of what this vehicle is.

[Allemano]

I am going to do something unusual: lock it for THREE puzzlers (Otto Puzzell,pnegyesi and Allemano) for the next 72 hours.
Why? Because they're the only ones who made a guess (Otto first) that seem quite close to the truth.

I did not, I believe...

[Ray B.]

All right. Locked for OP and pnegyesi.

[Otto Puzzell]

Nearly endless searching has resulted in no discoveries by me. I relinquish my lock. It's all up to pnegyesi, now. 

[Ray B.]

His lock is up too by now, so it's a free for all.

If a puzzler reads me well, checks all the posts in this topic, goes to the right well-known place and looks over his shoulder, he should find the clue that I mentioned without an endless search, in fact quite easily.