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Title: Solved -PJ460- H.F. Dixon's 6-passenger Special
Post by: Paul Jaray on October 11, 2012, 04:56:26 PM
What is this?
1 point for you!
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: RayTheRat on October 11, 2012, 10:17:46 PM
Packard 6-passenger Speedster, circa 1930?
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: Paul Jaray on October 12, 2012, 02:53:47 AM
I have a couple of pics of it...my sources report that it was designed and built by that man.
Not a word about the donor(s).
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: RayTheRat on October 12, 2012, 07:59:04 PM
Quote from: Paul Jaray on October 12, 2012, 02:53:47 AM
I have a couple of pics of it...my sources report that it was designed and built by that man.
Not a word about the donor(s).

I'm sorry, but I don't quite understand that.  Are you asking for the name of the designer/builder?

RtR
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: Paul Jaray on October 13, 2012, 03:52:53 PM
Yes, I'd like to know who created it.
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: Paul Jaray on November 20, 2012, 12:26:46 PM
Do you recognize it, now?
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: RayTheRat on November 20, 2012, 06:46:29 PM
I wish I could say that I did, but the newer photo just confirms what I'd been able to see from the plan view: a triple-cowl boat-tail speedster, built on a Packard platform, circa 1930-31.  The only thing that's new is the palm trees which indicate a probability of being in Southern California, perhaps Hollywood or Beverly Hills.

I've considered and discarded numerous "possibles" for the builder...they all seemed to be of the wrong time period.

The most likely coachbuilders would be Deitrich or Murphy, but that's just a guess.

I'm stumped for the moment.
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: Paul Jaray on November 21, 2012, 05:50:07 AM
He's from Los Angeles.
I don't think he is a coachbuilder.
I took this pic from a quite known source. (Well, both of them actually).
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: Paul Jaray on January 04, 2013, 09:58:23 AM
If you mispell an American President, you'll find his name. I won't lock it.
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: Paul Jaray on January 19, 2013, 01:39:07 PM
Quote from: Paul Jaray on January 04, 2013, 09:58:23 AM
If you mispell an American President, you'll find his name. I won't lock it.
Not Washington or Lincoln...
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: pnegyesi on January 19, 2013, 02:01:57 PM
Jefferson?
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: Paul Jaray on January 19, 2013, 02:25:28 PM
Not him..
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: pnegyesi on January 19, 2013, 03:50:44 PM
Roosevelt?
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: Paul Jaray on January 19, 2013, 04:30:37 PM
Quote from: Paul Jaray on January 19, 2013, 01:39:07 PM
Quote from: Paul Jaray on January 04, 2013, 09:58:23 AM
If you mispell an American President, you'll find his name. I won't lock it.
Not Washington or Lincoln...
Those where just to get the guesses started.
Not that old (and prestigious...)
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: Carnut on January 19, 2013, 07:47:21 PM
Clanton?
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: woodinsight on January 20, 2013, 03:29:28 AM
Busch?
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: Paul Jaray on January 20, 2013, 06:21:44 AM
Quote from: Carnut on January 19, 2013, 07:47:21 PM
Clanton?
Much known...
Quote from: woodinsight on January 20, 2013, 03:29:28 AM
Busch?
Even less loved...
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: pnegyesi on January 20, 2013, 06:26:58 AM
nixom?
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: Paul Jaray on January 20, 2013, 07:01:29 AM
Right President, not Nixom...
Nixom
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: Wendax on January 20, 2013, 07:02:49 AM
Dixon?
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: pnegyesi on January 20, 2013, 07:14:03 AM
Mixon?
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: Paul Jaray on January 20, 2013, 07:17:32 AM
Quote from: Wendax on January 20, 2013, 07:02:49 AM
Dixon?
Right!
Now it should be easier...
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: pnegyesi on January 27, 2013, 02:22:37 PM
Just to make sure, was this built in the early 1930s?
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: Paul Jaray on January 28, 2013, 05:52:04 AM
One of the pics comes from a 1930 magazine.
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: Paul Jaray on February 03, 2013, 03:31:57 AM
Now, we know tha a Mr. Dixon built it in 1930...
The full answer is X.Y. Dixon from Los Angeles.
Just those 2 letters are missing.
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: Paul Jaray on February 13, 2013, 04:53:40 AM
I have some new puzzles to post but I'd like to have old ones solved before.
This one is almost done.
2 letters are missing.
those 2 letters are quite famous in our field  ;) (Not G.T.).
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: pnegyesi on February 13, 2013, 05:18:22 AM
AC?
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: Paul Jaray on February 13, 2013, 05:19:33 AM
Not AC and not a brand...but related to one!
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: Wendax on February 13, 2013, 05:21:09 AM
M.B.?
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: woodinsight on February 13, 2013, 05:29:58 AM
D.B.?
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: Paul Jaray on February 13, 2013, 05:33:17 AM
Not DB or MB.
It is not a maker, or a model itself.
It was used by 1 (very famous) maker for 1 (very famous) model...it later became quite used in other models of that maker too.
Like GTI for VW or GTO for Ferrari...but it's 2 letters, not Ferrari and not VW.
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: Wendax on February 13, 2013, 05:40:05 AM
SL?
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: Paul Jaray on February 13, 2013, 05:43:51 AM
Good guess, but not SL.
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: Wendax on February 13, 2013, 05:47:49 AM
HF?
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: pnegyesi on February 13, 2013, 05:52:01 AM
CS?
Title: Re: PJ - 460
Post by: Paul Jaray on February 13, 2013, 05:53:24 AM
Quote from: Wendax on February 13, 2013, 05:47:49 AM
HF?
And we have a winner!
It was built by H.F. Dixon in 1930.
Title: Re: Solved -PJ460- H.F. Dixon's 6-passenger Special
Post by: grobmotorix on January 04, 2015, 02:23:34 PM
Has this been the puzzle photo?
Title: Re: Solved -PJ460- H.F. Dixon's 6-passenger Special
Post by: Paul Jaray on January 04, 2015, 02:49:53 PM
Almost...
Pictures restored!