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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2013 => Topic started by: nicanary on September 06, 2013, 11:00:36 AM

Title: Solved NIC #19 - Ardent Alligator
Post by: nicanary on September 06, 2013, 11:00:36 AM: What is the name of this car, what is the base, and what is the engine ?
Title: Re: NIC #19
Post by: Paul Jaray on September 06, 2013, 11:20:15 AM: I really think you should change or shrink this pic! ;)
EDIT: I took the liberty to do it myslef...you left the name written on the car perfectly readable and the source of your pic ;)
Title: Re: NIC #19
Post by: nicanary on September 12, 2013, 10:44:36 AM: Thanks to one of the editors this one is still with us - my eyesight was so bad I didn't see a clue I'd left on the puzzle image. The Experts will have this in seconds.....
Title: Re: NIC #19
Post by: nicanary on September 29, 2013, 06:20:49 AM: This is my first puzzle to make it to the Pros - it'll last about 10 minutes maximum.
Title: Re: NIC #19
Post by: Paul Jaray on September 29, 2013, 07:03:39 AM: Ardent Alligator, Riley Brooklands based.

"It started life out in 1929. Twenty years later, in a different country, with a different engine, a different body, and a different name, it would win a race in a small community in upstate New York in the Finger Lakes region that would soon become synonymous with road racing in America. The car was the Ardent Alligator, and the race was the Watkins Glen Grand Prix.

The car was built in England as a Riley Brooklands with an 1100cc engine capable of producing 55 hp. It was purchased in 1934 by Miles Collier, who along with his brother, Sam, founded and raced in the Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA), the premier road racing sanctioning body before WWII. The car was green at this time and being from the Florida Everglades region, they named it the Ardent Alligator.

The car was stored between 1935 and 1939, whereupon it received a new body and a new engine, a Mercury 3.9 liter V-8 flathead and drivetrain producing 175 hp. The War forced the car to go back into storage until 1949."

Text by Russell Jaslow
Title: Re: NIC #19
Post by: nicanary on September 29, 2013, 07:28:20 AM: Didn't think it would last long! I can't understand the Experts not solving one of the best-known cars in the US. And the best answer is to quote verbatim from journalism! Well done. I can add no more.
Title: Re: NIC #19
Post by: Carnut on September 29, 2013, 07:48:45 AM: Quote from: nicanary on September 29, 2013, 06:20:49 AM
This is my first puzzle to make it to the Pros - it'll last about 10 minutes maximum.

Four times as long!
Title: Re: Solved NIC #19 - Ardent Alligator
Post by: BERTRAND on June 23, 2023, 06:22:01 AM: puzzle with photo is better