Today, something a little different. This unique car is assembled from bits of 3 relatively easily discernible vehicles. To win this puzzle, be the first to identify 2 of the 3. And, please, be specific. "A truck", for instance is not an ID of a vehicle, but a vehicle type, and would not be accepted, even if a truck were one of the three donor vehicles.
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Please, respond below and tell us 2 of the 3.
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How about...
Schwimwagon drivetrain/chassis + Messerschmitt drop tanks
No + no.
The front windshield almost looks like the rear glass for something fairly. Close to a Austin Mini but not quite.
No Austin, but along those general lines.
Perhaps this is a pre-chunnel English channel crosser built from...
1) Morris Minor body
2) Surplus landing craft pontoons
...in a bid to jump-start the post war British economy.
I'd say throw in a dose of Schwimwaggen and you'd have it nailed.
Naturally, we both could be way off base. Or possibly just me.
No, it's both of you.
The sides reminds of something, I've seen them earlier. Those could be from the 1954 Tarf Gilera but maybe not.
(http://www.shorey.net/Auto/Miscellaneous%20Pictures/1954%20tarf-gilera%20500%20cc%204-cyl%20record%20car%20-%20piero%20taruffi.jpg.thumb.gif)
The roof looks similar to a Fiat 600 ditto.
No, not one of those. The car(s) from whence this sprang were ordinary. No Fiat bits, either.
I am now going to acknowledge the giant blitz staring me in the face and guess this is an Opel Kadett + Floats from an Arado sea plane.
nein + nein
It suddenly occurred to me that we may not be looking at a windshield here. Are we looking at a rear window?
I believe so.
Quote from: porridgehead on December 03, 2006, 11:18:22 AM
It suddenly occurred to me that we may not be looking at a windshield here. Are we looking at a rear window?
If you'd rear my post and Karn's reply about 6 posts up it would have come even more suddenly ;D
Oh. Hey! Willya look at that!
Well, did I mention that this thing looks like it was built from a couple different cars? Maybe even a few?
Errr....
What's the word the kids have for this kind of thing? Oh yeah, it's "DUH!" :-[
(Thanks for being nice about pointing out the painfully obvious. ;:) )
I'm beginning to think this wasn't an amphibious effort, but rather some other sort of record-setting car. (Endurance?) Why else would such a crowd gather around something that looks like that?
I'm thinking the people are assembled because the car is just so darned silly. Some seem to be turning away in disdain.
My eyes are weak in the morning, but that logo on the hood....errr....trunk sure looks like a Peugeot lion.
But its probably not..... :(
No Peugeot bits.
The automotive bits are all mainstream, from large, well-known manufacturers.
Another hint: Readers of the online articles linked to the AutoPuzzles front page (click on the banner logo at the top of this page) might happen upon the print publication in which this picture appeared.
Wait, this vehicle was featured in True Crime? :joker:
Or was it Field & Stream? :lmao:
Okay, one more try...howabout a ford Anglia chassis, wing tanks from a T-33 jet trainer, and a hood from a velcopodr....no, wait, chevy hood.
Correct you are, Stephen M.
Masterful use of the clues provided. :)
Ah, but the Maryland MasterMind left out the most important information:
WHY? ;D
Quote from: MG on December 23, 2006, 06:49:43 AM
Ah, but the Maryland MasterMind left out the most important information:
WHY? ;D
That part is still a mystery. ??? I can only assume a "Why not?"-type explanation, and yet I can think of dozens of reasons why not. :D
Here you are some more info:
The car is pictured in Wethersfield, England and was made by U.S. Air Force Officer Lt. Col. Edward Risher starting from an Anglia chassis with a Chevrolet hood, a rear windshield from an american Ford and Austin Bantam wheels. The wing tanks come from a T-33 jet trainer.
AAARGH! I KNEW IT! I WAS JUST ABOUT TO POST THAT! EXACTLY THAT! EXACTLY! WHY OH WHY OH WHY OHWHYWHYWHYWHY!!!!!!
OH... wait.
Whoops.
Wrong puzzle.
Nevermind.
(Seriously. I agonized over that one for ages. I kept picking at it and never got anywhere. I finally decided it was like picking at a scab that was on someone else. Or something else. Like a rock. A rock buried under a rotten log. Which was located in a vernal swamp in the mountains of Chile somewhere in the vicinity of El Arpa. Having never been there and knowing nothing about El Arpa, I decided that I should treat this particular scab in the way I know best. So I gave up.)
I don't know much about this car...but I found a picture with a caption that seems to be coming from a magazine, so I believe what it says till different proves. Can you tell me what's based on and how is it called?
Fiat 500 based Nardi 'Twin Boom' look alike
Based on a Ford Anglia (not the 105E) with body made with wing tanks from a T-33 jet trainer, probably made in 1958.
It's a repost. ;)
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=622.msg4160#msg4160
Another repost...my nightmeres! Hiawatha, you can get the point as well if you add the nickname reported on the caption, as it was not told by the previous quizzer.
Goofy car?
That's all I have. A point for you.
I leave this quiz here for a while, so that anyone could add further informations.
QuoteThe car is pictured in Wethersfield, England and was made by U.S. Air Force Officer Lt. Col. Edward Risher starting from an Anglia chassis with a Chevrolet hood, a rear windshield from an american Ford and Austin Bantam wheels. The wing tanks come from a T-33 jet trainer.
Fantastic, we have a builder. Now I can move it and should be merged.
Merged