Geo Whiz - It's a Bits and Places Puzzle - Solved!

[Oguerrerob]

18 1955 Chrysler Imperial Newport Coupe 16 Marble House Newport Rhode Island

[Oguerrerob]

17 Chevrolet Chevette Marajó - 17  Isla de Marajo Estado Du Para Amazonas Brazil

[Otto Puzzell]

18 1955 Chrysler Imperial Newport Coupe 16 Marble House Newport Rhode Island

Yep

[Otto Puzzell]

17 Chevrolet Chevette Marajó - 17  Isla de Marajo Estado Du Para Amazonas Brazil

That's better

[Oguerrerob]

2 Aurora - 10 Saginaw Control and Engineering Aurora Distribution Center Ohio USA

[Oguerrerob]

In the chart of answers, the numbers of the locations are correct? (I think some are twice or corresponding). Excuse me if I'm wrong. 

[Otto Puzzell]

In the chart of answers, the numbers of the locations are correct? (I think some are twice or corresponding). Excuse me if I'm wrong. 

You are right. They are now fixed

[Oguerrerob]

Thank you

[Oguerrerob]

8 Ford Del Rey - 11 Del Rey, California
And a guess 20 Dodge Durango SLT 2000 - 14 Fort Frances, Sorting Lookout Tower, Ontario, Canada

[Otto Puzzell]

8 Ford Del Rey - 11 Del Rey, California

Correct

And a guess 20 Dodge Durango SLT 2000 - 14 Fort Frances, Sorting Lookout Tower, Ontario, Canada

No Dodge Durango in this puzzle. 

[Tom_I]

Bit #6, the small air vent, is from a Studebaker Champion, 1950 or 51.

And having spent most of the afternoon with Flickr, Google Maps and Wikipedia, I'm fairly sure that Place #6 is a school in Champion Township, Trumbull County, Ohio.

[Wendax]

Bit #20: 2006 Buick Rainier - Place #11: Rainier, Washington

[Otto Puzzell]

Bit #6, the small air vent, is from a Studebaker Champion, 1950 or 51.

And having spent most of the afternoon with Flickr, Google Maps and Wikipedia, I'm fairly sure that Place #6 is a school in Champion Township, Trumbull County, Ohio.

That's a match!

[Otto Puzzell]

Bit #20: 2006 Buick Rainier - Place #11: Rainier, Washington

No sir

[Otto Puzzell]

To avoid giving away the final points for guesses, I require specific place ID's for the remaining matches.

Just naming a city or village you've Googled in not enough to get the remaining points.    

[Oguerrerob]

1- Chrysler Aspen Limited 2011 and  11- Aspen, Colorado. USA

[Otto Puzzell]

Nope

[Wendax]

1- Chrysler Aspen Limited 2011 and  11- Aspen, Colorado. USA

It's a 2009 Chrysler Aspen  . But the problem is the location. 

[Otto Puzzell]

The location is North of the Equator, in the Western Hemisphere.

[pnegyesi]

Is the location Aspen Homes in Orem, Utah?

[Otto Puzzell]

Neither of the remaining locations are in Utah.

Please remember to specify the number of the picture you are attempting to ID. 

[Tom_I]

I've trawled through everywhere I can find with Aspen in the name, but I still can't find the match. 

However, I also have a problem with the other remaining pairing.

If I've reverse-engineered the randomising algorithm correctly, the match should be between Bit #20 and Place #14. 

I've got the car and the place, but I can't make the match.

So first question, do the names of the car and the place have identical spellings, or is there a one-letter discrepancy?

[Otto Puzzell]

Yes, there is a one-letter difference. My bad. 

The the place pictured for the other pairing can be found on Google, but not by Google search-by-image.

[Tom_I]

I think there's still a slight problem with this one, but here goes...

Bit #20 is a Buick Rainier from about 2006, and the match is to Place #14, which should be Ranier, Minnesota (but isn't quite).

I've found the puzzle picture on the DB-City web page for Ranier, in the section headed "Ranier Photo". Unfortunately the page doesn't make it clear that the watchtower is not in Ranier, but stands on the other side of the Rainy River, at the Sorting Gap Marina in Fort Frances, Ontario.

I guess there's not much to take photos of in Ranier (population was 145 at the 2010 census), so they had to cast further afield. I expect you can see the watchtower from parts of Ranier.

Maybe I've made a mistake, but that's as far as I could get with it.

[Otto Puzzell]

I can see across the river can't you? 

One pair to go.