Q443 - solved - Edwards prototype

Carnut · January 26, 2016, 06:05:12 AM

In colour:

targhediferro · February 22, 2019, 06:43:56 PM

Who did build this car?

kwgibbs · February 22, 2019, 07:44:13 PM

is it the sterling Edwards?

Carnut · February 23, 2019, 03:42:32 AM

You're right!
It's the Edwards R-26 Roadster:

targhediferro · February 23, 2019, 03:44:23 AM

Locked cor Kwgibbs! I want to know who build it.

Carnut · February 23, 2019, 03:56:31 AM

Quote from: targhediferro on February 23, 2019, 03:44:23 AM
Locked cor Kwgibbs! I want to know who build it.

Sorry, I thought he'd already anwered the question so I wasn't looking for any points..!

kwgibbs · February 23, 2019, 07:56:38 AM

according to my source ,san Francisco industrialist Sterling H. Edwards built the car with the help of race-car builder Norman Timbs,mostly to prove America could create a race car as successful as the Europeans.The R-26 was crafted from aluninnum over a tube frame and powered by a ford V8-60 engine?

targhediferro · February 23, 2019, 01:01:32 PM

Quote from: kwgibbs on February 23, 2019, 07:56:38 AM
according to my source ,san Francisco industrialist Sterling H. Edwards built the car with the help of race-car builder Norman Timbs,mostly to prove America could create a race car as successful as the Europeans.The R-26 was crafted from aluninnum over a tube frame and powered by a ford V8-60 engine?

Everything you say is correct, but Edwards and Timbs didn't build the car by theirselves, it has been built by.....?

kwgibbs · February 23, 2019, 02:17:25 PM

I did find some names,was it Jack Hagemann ,and also the engine was built-up and modified by Eddie Meyer Engineering?

targhediferro · February 23, 2019, 03:22:15 PM

Not the names I'm looking for....anyway I want to know who built the body.

kwgibbs · February 23, 2019, 05:59:36 PM

The only other names I,ve found were Phil Remington,and apparently complete in Diedt and Losovsky?

targhediferro · February 24, 2019, 12:47:20 PM

Correct, the Edwards was built by Dietd & Lesowsky. One point cor you.

Carnut · February 24, 2019, 01:07:16 PM

Beautiful car, said to have been inspired by European sports cars of the period, perhaps Spohn Veritas cars.
Built, as you say, by Lujie Lesovsky an Emil Diedt (the latter well-known for his creations) and Phil Remington has also been mentioned as being involved, although I don't know if that was in the build process.

I'm going to have to merge this though since it's the same car as the previous puzzle..

Another picture; just because it's nice!:

kwgibbs · February 24, 2019, 01:13:36 PM

Thanks for the point!

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Q443 - solved - Edwards prototype