Solved - NEH 3924: Baufer Cheeta 1

[Carnut]

What's this and who built it - for 1 point?:

Remember - solving puzzles using 'Google Search by Image' is BANNED on AutoPuzzles!

[Carnut]

Experts?

[richard cuyler]

When I was 18 (1964) I would have climbed the Empire State Building in bare feet and without rope to own that! It would have needed to be unbearably hot inside, have a two litre, four-cylinder engine with a cam like a cow's backside, two fat side-draft Webers, a 'talented amateur'-manufactured banana-branch exhaust system and most importantly, be unable to idle at all. It would always overheat in traffic. The constant clattery chatter of the valve-train would fill the (almost bare) cabin and the ride would make a go kart feel like a Citroen 2CV.

Your then-girlfriend would pretend to like it but would hate every second she was in it and be mostly terrified at your flat-out driving style, as you made the most of your 18-year-old reactions to avoid crashes, at least five-per-mile. You would only learn of how much she hated it and your crazy driving once she'd left you and cozied up to a nice-but-oh-so-boring accountancy student with a side-parting and a clapped out VW Beetle. She wouldn't know the Beetle was probably even more dangerous than your cool car.

The cool factor of such a car would have been completely off the scale.  God, I can almost smell it right now, hot oil and a slight petrol leak from somewhere, never located, but who cared?! Ah, to be young and bonkers again.

[DHoffmann]

The wheelbase looks a lot like a Cheetah but it's too angular for that. Was this a prototype for the Cheetah?

[Carnut]

When I was 18 (1964) I would have climbed the Empire State Building in bare feet and without rope to own that! It would have needed to be unbearably hot inside, have a two litre, four-cylinder engine with a cam like a cow's backside, two fat side-draft Webers, a 'talented amateur'-manufactured banana-branch exhaust system and most importantly, be unable to idle at all. It would always overheat in traffic. The constant clattery chatter of the valve-train would fill the (almost bare) cabin and the ride would make a go kart feel like a Citroen 2CV.

Your then-girlfriend would pretend to like it but would hate every second she was in it and be mostly terrified at your flat-out driving style, as you made the most of your 18-year-old reactions to avoid crashes, at least five-per-mile. You would only learn of how much she hated it and your crazy driving once she'd left you and cozied up to a nice-but-oh-so-boring accountancy student with a side-parting and a clapped out VW Beetle. She wouldn't know the Beetle was probably even more dangerous than your cool car.

The cool factor of such a car would have been completely off the scale.  God, I can almost smell it right now, hot oil and a slight petrol leak from somewhere, never located, but who cared?! Ah, to be young and bonkers again.

Well fancy that - you and I had the same girl-friend..!

[Carnut]

The wheelbase looks a lot like a Cheetah but it's too angular for that. Was this a prototype for the Cheetah?

I don't know of any connection with the Cheetah (pictured below) which is obviously the car you mean;
and yet you are remarkably close to the answer!

[pftnbr]

Turismo Carretera?

[pftnbr]

Baufer Cheeta 1 built by Horacio Steven(?) and driven by Andrea Vianini. It appears that he was paralyzed by a crash in this car. My loose grasp of Spanish made this rather difficult...

[Carnut]

Baufer Cheeta 1 built by Horacio Steven(?) and driven by Andrea Vianini. It appears that he was paralyzed by a crash in this car. My loose grasp of Spanish made this rather difficult...

That's it, yes, from Argentina.  Whether the fact that it's called the Cheeta 1 means it has anything to do with the Cheetah kit car I don't know; the proportions do look very similar.

I thought this would be a lot more difficult to find as even Googling "Baufer Cheeta 1" and "Baufer Cheeta 1 Andrea Vianini" didn't produce any results at all in the UK!

Below is a picture of the car after the crash which disabled Vianini for life and the original puzzle picture unmodified:

[DHoffmann]

Baufer Cheeta 1 built by Horacio Steven(?) and driven by Andrea Vianini. It appears that he was paralyzed by a crash in this car. My loose grasp of Spanish made this rather difficult...

That's it, yes, from Argentina.  Whether the fact that it's called the Cheeta 1 means it has anything to do with the Cheetah kit car I don't know; the proportions do look very similar.

I thought this would be a lot more difficult to find as even Googling "Baufer Cheeta 1" and "Baufer Cheeta 1 Andrea Vianini" didn't produce any results at all in the UK!

Below is a picture of the car after the crash which disabled Vianini for life and the original puzzle picture unmodified:

Aaah now I get what you meant, that was the most confusing hint ever relating to Cheetah. 

[Carnut]

Aaah now I get what you meant, that was the most confusing hint ever relating to Cheetah. 

Cryptic rather than confusing!

[pftnbr]

It doesn't have any results on Google in the US either. I had happened to been reading about Turismo Carretera recently, so i guess I got rather lucky!