Who knows this car?
Experts´ time.
Professionals?
Fiat?
no.
Is it German?
Not even a piece of it is german,I think.
Italian then probably?
Funnyly enough I was sure that this puzzle would be saved in the rookie section and wondered why this has not been posted earlier.
But now it seems this will get a hard nut :)
So let´s gon on with it:
it is not italian either.
Ahh... on Michelins (?) it may be French...
My eagle-eyed friend, wow!
I wouldn´t have been able to decrypt the make of the tires...
It will not really help you though... :D
So let´s move on and give some hints:
It´s not french and not even from europe.
Airplane engine?
Only its huge displacement resembles an airplane engine.
It features an italian racing engine.
A FIAT engine, in a car from somewhere else...
US?
Fiat engined - YES!
Car from the USA - YES!
Who´ll be first? :D
The company still exists and is still very well known.
Buick Bug?
Quote from: grobmotorix on October 11, 2011, 05:39:30 AM
Fiat engined - YES!
Car from the USA - YES!
Who´ll be first? :D
The company still exists and is still very well known.
Not I. It's off to work I go...
Not Buick - not an american car company at all... ;)
American chassis, Fiat engine - built in South America?
No, it had been built and raced in the US of A.
And I think nearly every single person around the world may have seen at least one of its wheeled products in his life.
"not an american car company at all." - but it was built and raced in the USA. Strange.
Rolls-Royce?
Trucks?
They´ve built cars only for some years many decades ago.
I do not know trucks but many other heavy wheeled and motorized equipment of this company.
Case?
International Harvester?
An obscure Case it is, indeed!
I will NOT lock it for Wendax, because I´ve helped a lot within the last posts, I think.
Go for it Pros!
Jay-Eye-See Special?
Louis Disbrow in the Case Jay-Eye-See Special, 1912
This is the car, of course.
It´s been named after a famous racing horse, I think.
It was built by J.I.Case Threshing Machine Company, Racine, Wisconsin and the initials "J.I.C." sounds like "Jay-Eye-See"
Quote from: grobmotorix on October 11, 2011, 10:10:58 AM
This is the car, of course.
It´s been named after a famous racing horse, I think.
As far as this horse has been named after the company founder's initials: Jerome Increase Case => JIC.
The driver is the picture is Louis Disbrow.
Later became a garage owner, aviator, racing car and boat builder, then a engineer and spark plug manufacturer, before becoming a race official. He even carried on racing well into his 50's. All of these was achieved despite, or maybe because of, being accused and then acquitted of murder back in 1902.
Click the link for a PDF of a 1902 news article about said accusation.
What's the car and why the name?
I've been told this car has been posted before it did not show up when I searched.
One easy expert point.
This is the Jay-Eye-See, a racing car built around 1912, which was named after a famous racehorse that was in turn named for his owner, industrialist Jerome Increase Case (JIC), the founder of the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company of Racine, Wisconsin. The Case company sponsored the Jay-Eye-See, which was driven by Louis Disbrow.
Quote from: ropat53 on June 16, 2013, 10:10:49 PM
I've been told this is car has been posted before
Yes, it was: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=17901
;)
Yes it's the Jay-Eye-See.
Can somebody please merge them?