What is this?
1 point for you!
EDIT: picture changed!
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EDIT: This is the picture of a Volante, used before by mistake. Refer to the pic in the first post for the current puzzle, that has nothing to do with a Volante, (except the kind of vehicle) ;)
Is this, Owosso car?
Not that...
Was this a GM ,prototype jet-powered car?
Not GM or jet-powered.
Is it American?
Not American...
Japanese?
Not from there...
Im curious ,maybe the French?
Australian?
American
Japanese
French
Australian
Russian?
Pros?
Where's left? South Africa?
Not South Africa.
There's quite a lot left.... ;)
It won't take you much once you'll find the place...
European?
Sì... ;)
litestar pulse?
just found out the Owosso is the same car as litestar,I didn,t realize it at the time sorry.
Can't be, it's European... ;)
VOLANTE
It as the looks of the 'Volante'. Developed from 1976 onwards and intended to be produced as a kit for home mechanicals. Wings, front stubs and propeller are all removable (as in your picture). I have a picture of the prototype WITH these items on (see attachment) .Designed by K.P. Rice, with an aircooled four cylinder VW engine, 75 HP, placed behind the cabin. Calculated performance 130 mph in the air, 70 mph on the ground. It was licensed in California as a motorbike and it received an experimental FAA airworthyness certificate.
I suppose this prototype of my picture is the SAME VEHICLE as yours. ou stated it is European, it roots are from California. My source didn't state that the kits were actually supplied. But if so, an European builder made his own version, with mechanicals to his own choise.....
You are right, of course...there is a website dedicated to this car with the same pic.
I found my pic in a site were another project (european) was featured....there were some drawings and only this pic.
I should have checked (I have it in my HD as Volante too!).
Now, I'm going to award you a point because you find the car in the picture, but I'll add the actual puzzle I was after.
Sorry about that... :-\
I'll upload a better one later.
sdo this is a NEW puzzle. The other one is solved. Please add my earned point
Quote from: hermanoto on September 02, 2013, 02:01:04 AM
sdo this is a NEW puzzle. The other one is solved. Please add my earned point
No, I just changed the pic with the correct one.
All my replies refer to the puzzle car and now the pic too.
As stated in my reply #25:
Quote from: Paul Jaray on September 01, 2013, 02:58:10 PM
Now, I'm going to award you a point because you find the car in the picture, but I'll add the actual puzzle I was after.
Sorry about that... :-\
I'll award the points at the end, as usual. ;)
I am real puzzled with your way of puzzling.
Quote from: hermanoto on September 03, 2013, 11:33:51 AM
I am real puzzled with your way of puzzling.
It works, then!
Out of jokes, I had a vehicle in mind and there was a site describing it where you can find a picture of the Volante.
I thought it was the puzzle car under development but, as you found out, they just used a picture of a different car.
Since you identified the picture correctly as a Volante, I think you deserve a point, but in the meantime I replaced the Volante pic with the rendering of the one I was thinking of from the beginning.
This one can't be too hard.
Italian?
Sì!
is involved the designer Gino d'Ignazio (Gizio)?
I'll have to check but it's not the name I'm looking for.
Quote from: thorax on October 18, 2013, 06:00:30 PM
is involved the designer Gino d'Ignazio (Gizio)?
Not reported in my sources.
ok.
The name of this product is, as usual in this cases, not original at all and guess what...it's a combination of the 2 type of vehicles.
I won't lock after it will be found but the solution will be quite immediate, then.
Autocopter?
Not Autocopter...
Autoheli?
Not Autoheli.
The flying part in not 'helicopter-related'.
Autoplane?
Not Autoplane.
The flying part is quite generic and the 'terrestrian' part is not Auto but equally easy.
Aerocar?
Almost there...71%
Aircars?
Again 71% correct!
Could it be Aerocarro?
Aerocar was the closest so far.
It contains as many correct letters than the following 'Aircars' guess but they are both wrong.
Not Aerocarro. It is (was) an Italian project but the name doesn't sound italian.
Aviocar by Sergio Petrella?
Aviocar is correct.
I wrote I wouldn't lock it for the name but I think you found something.
Not Sergio Petrella, I'm looking for Company's name.
(I think you made a mixture of some of the real names involved or present in some sources where this car is featured ;))
Locked for you.
Centro Italiano di Ricerca Aerospaziale (CIRA) disegned the AvioCar under the Sergio (typo) Vetrella's presidency.
"The Center for Aerospace Research located in Campania is one of the institutions that suffer cuts to funds advanced by the Government. CIRA is a joint venture corporation, today a majority public: the State, through the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the National Research Council (CNR), has, in fact, the majority with 52% of the share capital, which also participate in the Campania Region (16%) and the main Italian aerospace companies. The state has entrusted CIRA is responsible for defining and implementing the National Program for Aerospace Research (PRORA) that annually is supported with funding from the Ministry of Education."
I don't know if AvioCar was built by this joint venture or a private company. All sources show rendering designs and talk about CIRA.
If this info is not right, please unlock.
All correct!
The missing bit was CIRA and of course it remained a project.
Point for you and for Hermanoto.