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Title: Whaddyacallit #555 - A Jim Buchanan design
Post by: Ray B. on August 29, 2011, 05:34:44 AM
Not a real car, but a design proposal.
By whom, on what occasion, and where can it be seen?

Only a complete answer will be worth a point.
Was it ever built? Probably not, AFAIK.
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #555
Post by: Otto Puzzell on August 29, 2011, 05:42:17 AM
Futurist auto designer Jim Buchanan (played by Herbert Marshall) was a car designer in the film If You Could Only Cook. The puzzle car is one of the character's drawings. Here is another:
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #555
Post by: Ray B. on August 29, 2011, 05:49:09 AM
I should eat my hat! :nerves:
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #555
Post by: Oguerrerob on August 29, 2011, 07:34:05 AM
"The absurd central conceits of If You Could Only Cook don't matter much when Leo Carrillo & Lionel Stander invade the film's finely appointed Art Deco mansions. It's a blast to watch Carrillo, Stander & Carillo's gangland henchmen steal every scene from notorious scene-stealers like Herbert Marshall & Jean Arthur, but the script simply isn't sharp enough for the two leads to get a foothold. At one point automobile magnate Jim Buchanan's wedding limousine is pulled over by police motorcycles & Stander & a mug mimic cooing & billing while Marshall sits between them, held at gunpoint, rather impressed. The policemen swoon romantically while writing the speeding ticket. It's the best scene in the movie.
Futurist auto designer Jim Buchanan (Marshall) envisions the car of tomorrow & his Depression-skittish board of directors want to keep making the bullshit cars we make today. Ladies & gentlemen of the board, the car of the future today"

Two others design sketch:
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #555
Post by: Otto Puzzell on August 29, 2011, 08:08:05 AM
Nice work - scroll up
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #555 - A Jim Buchanan design
Post by: Ray B. on August 29, 2011, 12:12:10 PM
I still don't understand why you solved this one so quickly. I had merely stumbled upon it while looking for something else.
Did you have it on your HD for weeks or what?
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #555 - A Jim Buchanan design
Post by: Oguerrerob on August 29, 2011, 12:29:53 PM
Sorry!! I was searching another puzzle about sketches and drawing (with no luck!!!). And suddenly appeared.