Solved - NEH 2525: SCG Urbansport idea - 1960

[Carnut]

It's petrol-powered not electric, has nothing to do with any Corvair and it's not based on a Crosley.

[4popoid]

Proposal drawing by, or for, one of the "Big 3" US automakers?

[hermanoto]

is it a design by Trevor Fiore

[Otto Puzzell]

A Bob Gurr sketch?

[Carnut]

Proposal drawing by, or for, one of the "Big 3" US automakers?

No..

is it a design by Trevor Fiore

..no.. 

A Bob Gurr sketch?

..I don't have an actual name of the person who did the sketch, but I suspect not him.

[nicanary]

I think it's time to refer some of the puzzlers to Carnut's earlier post - it was intended to be Mini-powered. Some of the questions have diverged somewhat from this path...

Was it anything to do with the BMC importers ?

[Carnut]

I think it's time to refer some of the puzzlers to Carnut's earlier post - it was intended to be Mini-powered. Some of the questions have diverged somewhat from this path...

Was it anything to do with the BMC importers ?

I thought I'd said that too but I didn't look back either..!

No, nothing to do with the importers.

[Otto Puzzell]

It looks a bit like an Almquist Thunderbolt - any relation?

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[Carnut]

It looks a bit like an Almquist Thunderbolt - any relation?

Not at all, no.  Its intention being Mini-based it's much smaller than that I think.

[Otto Puzzell]

Almquist made a lot of different cars - I wasn't suggesting it was that specific model.

Was the puzzle drawing by Bruce Meyers?

[Carnut]

A Bob Gurr sketch?

..I don't have an actual name of the person who did the sketch, but I suspect not him.

Almquist made a lot of different cars - I wasn't suggesting it was that specific model.

Was the puzzle drawing by Bruce Meyers?

See above.  Nothing has changed - I still don't know an actual name!

[Otto Puzzell]

OK - let me re-phrase - was it to built by B. F. Meyers & Co., as a kit to use with Mini mechanical bits?

[nicanary]

Was the company already in business making Kit-cars for other chassis ?

[Carnut]

OK - let me re-phrase - was it to built by B. F. Meyers & Co., as a kit to use with Mini mechanical bits?

No..

Was the company already in business making Kit-cars for other chassis ?

..no existing car company was involved.  This is only a conceptual proposal.

I think it only fair to say now that I'm almost certain you won't find the answer on the 'net; you need to go through your supply of old US car magazines..

[nicanary]

OK - let me re-phrase - was it to built by B. F. Meyers & Co., as a kit to use with Mini mechanical bits?

No..

Was the company already in business making Kit-cars for other chassis ?

..no existing car company was involved.  This is only a conceptual proposal.

I think it only fair to say now that I'm almost certain you won't find the answer on the 'net; you need to go through your supply of old US car magazines..

That won't take long. Nada.  :'(

[Djetset]

As this isn't the product of an actual car company, was it a magazine project?

[Carnut]

As this isn't the product of an actual car company, was it a magazine project?

Crikey, I thought this one was in the Black Hole!

Although the idea was to base it on a real car (a Mini), it was indeed a purely theoretical magazine project!
A product of someone's imagination...

[Djetset]

Hmmm, as I know from a few of my own puzzles (some still unresolved), and others (such as the recent Road and Track Le Mans Coupe from 1960) in the early 1960s imaginary magazine car projects seemed to be popular with both the editors and their readers. 

Is this one a 'dream car' by Sports Car Illustrated as it has their 'look' about it?

[Carnut]

Hmmm, as I know from a few of my own puzzles (some still unresolved), and others (such as the recent Road and Track Le Mans Coupe from 1960) in the early 1960s imaginary magazine car projects seemed to be popular with both the editors and their readers. 

Is this one a 'dream car' by Sports Car Illustrated as it has their 'look' about it?

Right track, wrong mag (though you have got two words of its title right, which earns a lock!)...

[Djetset]

Thanks for the lock.  Sports Car Catalog?

[Carnut]

Thanks for the lock.  Sports Car Catalog?

No!  You'll have to gen up on your period American car mags!

[Djetset]

Sports Car Guide?

[Carnut]

Sports Car Guide?

Aha - progress!
Yes, it's a project published in the Sports Car Guide.
Now all we need to know is its name, though establishing when might help with that - maybe!

[Djetset]

Sixties Spider?

[Carnut]

Sixties Spider?

That's not it's name, or anything like it, though it does date from the Sixties..