Puzzle #1093 - Solved! FireFly

Otto Puzzell · November 28, 2008, 03:16:29 AM

Know what it is?

Please, respond below and let us know the make and model designation of the car posted here.

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Otto Puzzell · December 08, 2008, 02:37:20 PM

Moved

Otto Puzzell · December 13, 2008, 02:38:39 AM

Moved again.

ImpishGrin · December 13, 2008, 05:30:43 AM

Move it away. It's too hideous.

Paul Jaray · December 13, 2008, 06:21:54 AM

Can be "Time Fly" part of the answer? It's written near the car....

Otto Puzzell · December 13, 2008, 07:30:44 AM

No, but that's not to far off - I guess your eyes work much better than my aging peepers.

Paul Jaray · December 13, 2008, 08:02:31 AM

The fly? Now I noticed the resemblance....

Otto Puzzell · December 13, 2008, 08:12:20 AM

You're still kind of close...

Paul Jaray · December 13, 2008, 08:24:22 AM

Ok, it won't help but... is "FLY" part of the name?

Otto Puzzell · December 13, 2008, 09:47:33 AM

It is.

@re · December 30, 2008, 03:53:01 PM

It's the Fire Fly, homebuilt on New Zealand in 1974 - something as rare for the time as a hybrid car.

Google again!

Otto Puzzell · December 30, 2008, 03:56:57 PM

Puzzles for the common man, I say!

Paul Jaray · December 30, 2008, 04:17:57 PM

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Paul Jaray · December 30, 2008, 04:22:50 PM

...the odd thing is that the same guy owes another car, and I was going to post THAT car in these days, and when I first saw this car, I though it was THAT!

piersdad · June 30, 2009, 04:29:30 PM

missed this thread
the pic was taken at a show the trouble was that the car was all electric at the time and to get it to the show some 110 mile away was difficult so i placed the electric motor on the front of the gearbox and put a vw motor on the rear.
then for the show i removed the petrol motor ( 4 bolts and a couple of plugs)and so from necessity i created perhaps the first hybrid

as the car only had a 4 ltre petrol tank i had to often drive the last few miles to a petrol station on the electrics and would say as it quietly slid into the petrol station-- to the attenndant that i had run out of petrol some miles away and had to use the starter motor to get here and showed him the giant electric motor and the 1500 lbs of bateries LOL

Amsterdam · January 25, 2011, 12:01:01 PM

Complete name on make and model please, and who built it ....for a point.

Allemano · January 25, 2011, 12:06:23 PM

I believe this oddity had been posted before

Amsterdam · January 25, 2011, 12:09:53 PM

Quote from: Allemano on January 25, 2011, 12:06:23 PM
I believe this oddity had been posted before

Something came up......but not this one

piersdad · January 25, 2011, 01:10:53 PM

im sure the front window is a holden rear window from the 60s

Amsterdam · January 25, 2011, 01:30:58 PM

Quote from: piersdad on January 25, 2011, 01:10:53 PM
im sure the front window is a holden rear window from the 60s

Thank you fore you're reply piersdad ( in fact the mastermind behind this car

and for not spoiling the puzzle

Allemano is unfortunately right

it is a re post

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=5951.0

Would you be so kind and merge it

piersdad · January 25, 2011, 02:15:36 PM

sorry cant merge it as not computor savvy so just leave it as link

Allemano · January 25, 2011, 02:23:31 PM

Merged.

piersdad · January 25, 2011, 02:25:42 PM

and if any one is considering making a car with VW rear and morris minor front --dont-- as the both jack up in a severe swerve and the results are spectacular.
thanks goodness for batteries at low centre of gravity

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Puzzle #1093 - Solved! FireFly