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Title: Solved - NEH 3309: Alex Tremulis 1951 design originally for Tucker - Concept Sports Car
Post by: Carnut on March 07, 2014, 07:44:36 AM
What's this and who was responsible for it - for 1 point?:

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Title: Re: NEH 3309
Post by: Carnut on March 14, 2014, 06:40:13 AM
Very easy Expert point; too easy!  Wake up rookies!
Title: Re: NEH 3309
Post by: kwgibbs on March 14, 2014, 07:25:55 AM
alex tremulis sports car concept?
Title: Re: NEH 3309
Post by: Carnut on March 14, 2014, 08:21:18 AM
Quote from: kwgibbs on March 14, 2014, 07:25:55 AM
alex tremulis sports car concept?

Yes, it's by Alex Tremulis.
So I'll lock it for you now to identify it.
Title: Re: NEH 3309
Post by: kwgibbs on March 14, 2014, 08:41:24 AM
Is it the, Tucker-Tremulis-Neidlinger-Kaiser-Frazer, 1951?
Title: Re: NEH 3309
Post by: Carnut on March 14, 2014, 08:42:00 AM
Quote from: kwgibbs on March 14, 2014, 08:41:24 AM
Is it the, Tucker-Tremulis-Neidlinger-Kaiser-Frazer, 1951?

No..
Title: Re: NEH 3309
Post by: kwgibbs on March 14, 2014, 09:19:48 AM
Is it the Kaiser-Frazer aluminum car?
Title: Re: NEH 3309
Post by: Carnut on March 14, 2014, 10:06:36 AM
Quote from: kwgibbs on March 14, 2014, 09:19:48 AM
Is it the Kaiser-Frazer aluminum car?

Nothing to do with Kaiser-Frazer at all AFAIK!
Title: Re: NEH 3309
Post by: Carnut on March 14, 2014, 10:56:47 AM
Quote from: kwgibbs on March 14, 2014, 07:25:55 AM
alex tremulis sports car concept?

Actually I misled you a bit as this is in fact what it is.
It did later morph into a Kaiser-Frazer so I was also wrong when I said it had nothing to do with them, although it didn't start out as a Kaiser-Frazer.
So all I need to know now for the point is who/what was it a Sports Car Concept for?

Still locked for kwgibbs!
Title: Re: NEH 3309
Post by: kwgibbs on March 14, 2014, 09:07:08 PM
was the design to be for the XK-120 Jaguar?
Title: Re: NEH 3309
Post by: Carnut on March 15, 2014, 09:43:21 AM
Quote from: kwgibbs on March 14, 2014, 09:07:08 PM
was the design to be for the XK-120 Jaguar?

No!  For whom did Alex Tremulis do some work before being employed by Kaiser-Frazer?
Title: Re: NEH 3309
Post by: D-type on March 15, 2014, 09:55:18 AM
Long shot:  Tucker Talisman, which probably was not designed by Tremulis
Title: Re: NEH 3309
Post by: fyreline on March 15, 2014, 10:49:25 AM
I think we're still locked for kwgibbs?

QuoteIs it the, Tucker-Tremulis-Neidlinger-Kaiser-Frazer, 1951?

We got an unequivocal "NO" to this guess, although at least two web sites identify the exact quiz photo as exactly that. Still looking for an alternate name, nothing so far.
Title: Re: NEH 3309
Post by: kwgibbs on March 15, 2014, 11:06:02 AM
Didn,t Alex Tremulis work for a design firm-Tammen&Denison, before Tucker?
Title: Re: NEH 3309
Post by: Carnut on March 15, 2014, 01:10:01 PM
Well it's actually Tucker I was looking for; you hadn't mentioned the name previously on its own!
I've seen those threads about the Tucker-Tremulis-Neidlinger-Kaiser-Frazer as well but I believe that covers a whole series of cars (which this one may indeed have ultimately joined) but as far as I understand it Tremulis designed this, his Concept Sports Car, whilst still doing work for Tucker and only resurrected the same thing later when he started working for Kaiser-Frazer.  If I'm wrong I'm sure someone more knowledgeable than I will correct me; I'm not a big expert on these designs.
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 3309: Alex Tremulis 1951 design originally for Tucker - Concept Sports Car
Post by: kwgibbs on March 15, 2014, 01:19:09 PM
I see what you mean now,he certainly designed a good many cars,thank you for the point!
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 3309: Alex Tremulis 1951 design originally for Tucker - Concept Sports Car
Post by: streamliner on March 15, 2014, 11:06:09 PM
Good job.

Yup it was first done as a Tucker sports car that would have eventually competed with the Jaguar XK120.  Then Tremulis and Neidlinger teamed up to sell it as a custom-built sports car, then he reworked the model to the photo seen in the puzzle for Kaiser-Frazer.

:applause: