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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2013 => Topic started by: Otto Puzzell on May 15, 2013, 04:22:18 AM
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How can I make this car faster? ;)
For one point: Identify the car, driver, and place.
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Well, it's obviously a Mercedes-Benz 220S - is that Rudi Uhlenhaut ?
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OP is always very clever in his puzzles...........
The car in the background looks very American, a 1953 Ford I think.
The registration plate is not the American style but I don't think it is a true registration plate, perhaps some advertising.
The parking place striping is also typically something you see in the US, not in Germany for example.
Other than that, I haven't a clue.
Bill
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The car in the background could be a Taunus.... And there's a "fintail" next to the puzzle car. Having said that, in my haste I didn't notice the "conference accreditation" attached to the mystery man's pocket.
Is "our man" in the US on business ?
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Good eye, canary, I missed the fin.
I will stay with a 1953 Ford for the moment, look at the "frenched" headlamps. Also the size of the car is more in line with my suggestion.
Now, I am no good with Photoshop, and the photo is a bit unclear, but are those not also sealed beam headlamps on the Benz??
I too have been noodling the ID badge but have nothing yet. The style of dress reminds me exactly of what my dad wore in the 1950's so that may be a clue also.
Bill
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Well, it's obviously a Mercedes-Benz 220S - is that Rudi Uhlenhaut ?
Not him
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We're not getting very far. It's not Max Hoffman. Is this an American person ?
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This man was not born in the US.
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Werner von Braun, the NASA Apollo rocket designer
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Sorry, I'm stealing again.
1957 Mercedes-Benz 220S, Werner von Braun outside the HQ of Army Ballistic Missile Agency in Huntsville, Alabama.
He was apparently a director of M-B in North America, and thus had numerous "company cars".
(The photo ID on his jacket was the high-tech method of the day. No retina/iris ID or fingerprint pads !)
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Sorry, I'm stealing again.
1957 Mercedes-Benz 220S, Werner von Braun outside the HQ of Army Ballistic Missile Agency in Huntsville, Alabama.
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For the risk of being pedantic, his name was Wernher von Braun.
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For the risk of being pedantic, his name was Wernher von Braun.
That's not pedantic!
This is pedantic:
He was born "Wernher Magnus Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun"!!
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Despite his gentleman looks he was another whitewashed nazi...
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Despite his gentleman looks he was another whitewashed nazi...
Some things are conveniently forgotten when there's a space-race going on. Having said that, best leave politics out of this site, I reckon.
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(...) Having said that, best leave politics out of this site, I reckon.
Definetely! :thumbsup:
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For the risk of being pedantic, his name was Wernher von Braun.
Corrected in header.