What is this?
1 point for you!
Experts?
Is it electric?
Yes...
by any chance,was it built in India?
Not India...
Europe,If so france?
Not Europe.
usa?
Yes!
any connection to sebring-vanguard?
Not that I'm aware of...
was it a production car, mass produced?
Nope...
Another one easier than you may think.
To me, those look like Crosley wheels and given the small size of the car, plus its sturdy-looking rollover bar inside, is it perhaps a special closed-car racing version of a Crosley?
Nope..it's just an electric car by a company. ;)
was it built in the 1980,s?
Late 60s ;)
This company was already featured here.
was it general electric?
Not General Electric.
west penn power?
Not that.
near-term electric?
Not that.
I hope I won't mislead you, but I think this one is better known.
would it be electro-master?
Not that.
is it electricar?
Not electricar.
Go Pros!
was it Gulf-Western?
Not that...
Electrodyne?
not that...
was it built by the same company that built the copper electric city runabout ?
Not by CDA (Copper Development Association).
We already had some of their cars at Autopuzzles.
Anderson power products?
Good guess but no.
Omega?
Not that.
Transportation Systems Laboratory, also called Electromotion?
Good guess but not the name written on that sign ; )
Quote from: Wendax on February 24, 2015, 03:08:36 AM
Transportation Systems Laboratory, also called Electromotion?
I can add that it's not that, but somehow close to the full name of the company.
2 of their cars were previous puzzles.
Transportation Laboratory at Pratt Institute?
Not that, but I'm sure there are not many left!
US Department of Transportation ?
Quote from: oko94 on February 27, 2015, 12:04:47 PM
US Department of Transportation ?
Very close...locked for you.
That is not the name of the company, of course...but there is a strong connection I can't reveal.
Minicars ?
I've got the feeling it's somewhere in a forgotten corner of my HD, but can't find it back...
Quote from: oko94 on February 27, 2015, 06:09:03 PM
Minicars ?
:thumbsup:
Now, the easiest part. What is that?
Locked for you ;)
I've found lots of pictures of this car in a certain online digital library, but there's no information available there except for a year : 1969.
Digging deeper, I've found two conflicting stories :
- in 1969, Minicars Inc of Goleta, California (near Santa Barbara) designed the Minicar, a 2-door 3-seat small car fitted with an air-cooled six-cylinder engine, automatic transmission and air conditioning. There's no picture in this source.
- in 1969, the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Urban Research and Experiment unveiled the Minicar prototype, designed in cooperation with Minicars Inc of Santa Barbara, California. It was a hybrid car, powered by both an electric engine and a 40 hp flat air-cooled engine. The project started in 1967 and was funded by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and by the US Department of Transportation. There's a picture in this source : it has roughly the same proportions as the puzzle's car but it looks like a real car, not like a crude prototype. See the attached picture.
So I would answer that the puzzle is an early prototype of the Minicar.
Minicars Transit System built 2 electric prototypes, Prototype A was equipped with an internal combustion engine, and Prototype B had an hybrid power train. There were also an interior/exterior buck ( the one in your picture) and a chassis developed for testing ride and handling, the puzzle car.
We already had the Safety Sedan and the RSV.
Well done, point for you! :applause: