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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2013 => Topic started by: Quiller on May 29, 2009, 06:48:46 AM

Title: Q506 - solved - 1989 Cheetah
Post by: Quiller on May 29, 2009, 06:48:46 AM
Tell me, what's the name of this car?
Title: Re: Q506
Post by: Quiller on June 02, 2009, 06:59:06 PM
None. Other than it looks a bit like one  ;)
Title: Re: Q506
Post by: Quiller on July 02, 2009, 08:49:03 AM
Easy for experts?
Title: Re: Q506
Post by: gilescooperuk on July 02, 2009, 05:48:34 PM
kit car?

Challenger E-type
Title: Re: Q506
Post by: Quiller on July 02, 2009, 05:59:39 PM
Not a Challenger ...
Title: Re: Q506
Post by: gilescooperuk on July 02, 2009, 06:01:23 PM
It is MX-5 based?
Title: Re: Q506
Post by: Quiller on July 02, 2009, 06:04:35 PM
Quote from: gilescooperuk on July 02, 2009, 06:01:23 PM
It is MX-5 based?

No it's not ...
Title: Re: Q506
Post by: gilescooperuk on July 02, 2009, 06:08:36 PM
i was sure they were mx-5 doors - out of ideas now for the moment  ???
Title: Re: Q506
Post by: gilescooperuk on July 11, 2009, 05:28:50 PM
Ginetta G32 with modified bonnet
Title: Re: Q506
Post by: Quiller on July 11, 2009, 07:29:31 PM
I don't think you mean G32. In any case, it's not a Ginetta ...
Title: Re: Q506
Post by: gilescooperuk on July 26, 2009, 02:01:33 PM
JPR Wildcat
Title: Re: Q506
Post by: Quiller on July 29, 2009, 01:32:29 PM
Quote from: gilescooperuk on July 26, 2009, 02:01:33 PM
JPR Wildcat

Not one of those ...
Title: Re: Q506
Post by: Quiller on August 10, 2009, 09:31:40 AM
Easy-peasy pro pickings ...
Title: Re: Q506
Post by: Allemano on August 10, 2009, 01:02:52 PM
Challenger?
Title: Re: Q506
Post by: Arunas on August 10, 2009, 01:07:18 PM
Jag based?
Title: Re: Q506
Post by: Quiller on August 10, 2009, 06:21:10 PM
Not a Challenger ... and not Jag-based ...
Title: Re: Q506
Post by: Quiller on December 14, 2009, 07:14:09 PM
This puzzle is readily solvable... ;)
Title: Re: Q506
Post by: Paul Jaray on February 10, 2010, 03:23:33 PM
This car is made by Cheetah Cars, in Auckland and it is Holden Kingswood based.
Title: Re: Q506
Post by: Quiller on February 11, 2010, 01:56:22 PM
Indeed it is! (apparently 9 were produced)
Title: Solved - NEH 2674: Holden-based Cheetah
Post by: Carnut on May 22, 2013, 07:13:55 AM
What's this and what is it based on, for 1 point?:

ANYONE FOUND GIVING ANSWERS OBTAINED BY USING GOOGLE SEARCH BY IMAGE MAY BE BANNED FOR AN INDETERMINATE PERIOD!
Title: Re: NEH 2674
Post by: Carnut on May 29, 2013, 05:22:58 AM
Experts?
Title: Re: NEH 2674
Post by: nicanary on May 30, 2013, 04:48:30 AM
We recently had the worst D-Type replica I've ever seen - now we get the worst E-type ! That's a shocker.

Is it a JPR Wildcat ?

(PS I just tried to PM you but the link failed - are the photos going to be reintroduced in the index? I haven't bookmarked any pages so I'm in the mire !)
Title: Re: NEH 2674
Post by: Carnut on May 30, 2013, 05:28:11 AM
Quote from: nicanary on May 30, 2013, 04:48:30 AM
We recently had the worst D-Type replica I've ever seen - now we get the worst E-type ! That's a shocker.

Is it a JPR Wildcat ?

(PS I just tried to PM you but the link failed - are the photos going to be reintroduced in the index? I haven't bookmarked any pages so I'm in the mire !)

It's not a Wildcat, no.  It's worse..!
Thumbnails should be back before too long - it's being worked on!
Title: Re: NEH 2674
Post by: D-type on May 30, 2013, 07:43:41 AM
Is this a smaller than full size replica, eg 3/4 full size?
Title: Re: NEH 2674
Post by: Carnut on May 30, 2013, 10:17:55 AM
Quote from: D-type on May 30, 2013, 07:43:41 AM
Is this a smaller than full size replica, eg 3/4 full size?

Crikey, I don't think I can answer that!
It's not the same dimensions as an E-type but not sure in what way it differs.
Title: Re: NEH 2674
Post by: gilescooperuk on May 30, 2013, 04:54:46 PM
Well I can tell the base car is an MX-5, the question is what make and why would you do that to a mazda?
Title: Re: NEH 2674
Post by: nicanary on May 30, 2013, 06:49:25 PM
If it IS based on an MX5 then it is about 4/5th scale! Is it a commercial kit-car or a one-off ?
Title: Re: NEH 2674
Post by: Carnut on May 31, 2013, 06:14:39 AM
It's not MX5 based.
Title: Re: NEH 2674
Post by: Carnut on May 31, 2013, 06:16:14 AM
Quote from: Carnut on May 30, 2013, 10:17:55 AM
Quote from: D-type on May 30, 2013, 07:43:41 AM
Is this a smaller than full size replica, eg 3/4 full size?

Crikey, I don't think I can answer that!
It's not the same dimensions as an E-type but not sure in what way it differs.

It's not smaller than an E-Type!
Title: Re: NEH 2674
Post by: fyreline on May 31, 2013, 01:11:39 PM
I certainly agree that it takes the prize for the ugliest E-type ever. It's actually from Down Under (New Zealand, to be exact) and it was built over 1990-1991 by a fellow called Grant Loch. He named it the Cheetah, and it was built on a Holden HQ base.

Yikes.
Title: Re: NEH 2674
Post by: Carnut on June 01, 2013, 07:16:50 PM
Quote from: fyreline on May 31, 2013, 01:11:39 PM
I certainly agree that it takes the prize for the ugliest E-type ever. It's actually from Down Under (New Zealand, to be exact) and it was built over 1990-1991 by a fellow called Grant Loch. He named it the Cheetah, and it was built on a Holden HQ base.

Yikes.

Yes, the Cheetah it is, based on the Holden Headquarters..
Apparently 9 of these were made!
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 2674: Holden-based Cheetah
Post by: dzima1985 on June 02, 2013, 03:01:51 AM
another view:
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 2674: Holden-based Cheetah
Post by: fyreline on June 02, 2013, 09:00:04 AM
The side view doesn't offend quite as badly, but even the newest E-Type enthusiast can tell that something's not quite right. Still and all, you have to respect the effort and engineering that went into creating it. If this is what the builder wanted, he got it.
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 2674: Holden-based Cheetah
Post by: Paul Jaray on June 03, 2013, 05:11:09 AM
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=8225.msg91040#msg91040
;)
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 2674: Holden-based Cheetah
Post by: Carnut on June 03, 2013, 05:47:26 AM
Quote from: Paul Jaray on June 03, 2013, 05:11:09 AM
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=8225.msg91040#msg91040
;)

Thanks.
I've merged them.
The AP search for "Cheetah" didn't show that result at all!!
Title: Re: Q506 - solved - 1989 Cheetah
Post by: Paul Jaray on June 03, 2013, 05:49:12 AM
I found it there...but I've noticed that now in the results you can't view the topic title and it's highly harder like that...but I have to check the settings and probably it can be fixed.