Author Topic: Solved: GTE 329 - 1949 Race Car of Werner Tollefsbøl (which later became the GB2)  (Read 660 times)

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Identify this car for a point.

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Re: GTE 329
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2020, 03:27:02 AM »
Experts?

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Re: GTE 329
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2020, 08:42:52 PM »
Pros?

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Re: GTE 329
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2020, 04:45:30 AM »
Nordic race car of some kind. Still investigating.......
I must be right - that's what it says on Wikipedia

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Re: GTE 329
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2020, 05:06:09 AM »
Nordic race car of some kind. Still investigating.......
You're on the right track

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Re: GTE 329
« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2020, 05:34:51 AM »
Gunnar Olsson's Kaiser special Go-On ?
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Re: GTE 329
« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2020, 05:37:32 AM »
Gunnar Olsson's Kaiser special Go-On ?
No

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Re: GTE 329
« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2020, 05:47:35 AM »
Mercury based?
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Re: GTE 329
« Reply #8 on: April 03, 2020, 06:07:16 AM »
Mercury based?
Mercury-powered. Locked for you to identify the builder.
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Re: GTE 329
« Reply #9 on: April 03, 2020, 06:27:47 AM »
Gunnar Carlsson ?
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Re: GTE 329
« Reply #10 on: April 03, 2020, 02:39:37 PM »
Gunnar Carlsson ?
It's Gunnar, but neither Olsson nor Carlsson

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Re: GTE 329
« Reply #11 on: April 03, 2020, 03:37:24 PM »
Bengtsson ?
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Re: GTE 329
« Reply #12 on: April 03, 2020, 03:45:50 PM »

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Re: GTE 329
« Reply #13 on: April 04, 2020, 04:17:48 AM »
I have seen a Karlsson, but it's possibly a mistyped Carlsson.
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Re: GTE 329
« Reply #14 on: April 04, 2020, 04:34:48 AM »
I have seen a Karlsson, but it's possibly a mistyped Carlsson.
It was neither Carlsson nor Karlsson.

I've re-read my notes and see that I need to correct something important. While there was a man named Gunnar involved with this car (a subsequent owner), he was not the builder/original owner. So forget about Gunnar; I'm looking for the name of the builder/original owner. Still locked for you, at least through the weekend.

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Re: GTE 329
« Reply #15 on: April 04, 2020, 04:52:22 AM »
My regular source has no further names associated with Mercury, but I'll work on the assumption that "Ford" covers the remit.

Gosta Kvarnstrom ?
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Re: GTE 329
« Reply #16 on: April 04, 2020, 05:22:14 AM »

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Re: GTE 329
« Reply #17 on: April 04, 2020, 05:26:21 AM »
Jac Stousland ?
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Re: GTE 329
« Reply #18 on: April 04, 2020, 06:04:57 AM »

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Re: GTE 329
« Reply #19 on: April 04, 2020, 06:25:12 AM »
Ewald Hagstrom ?
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Re: GTE 329
« Reply #20 on: April 04, 2020, 07:09:20 AM »

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Re: GTE 329
« Reply #21 on: April 04, 2020, 07:26:48 AM »
I have a distinct feeling that I've gone off in the completely wrong direction, but I'm like a stone rolling down a hill.

Evert Soloranta ?

(I've been through 3 pages on my search engine, translating each page, and can find nothing aboiut the puzzle car!)
I must be right - that's what it says on Wikipedia

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Re: GTE 329
« Reply #22 on: April 04, 2020, 12:56:58 PM »
I have a distinct feeling that I've gone off in the completely wrong direction, but I'm like a stone rolling down a hill.

Evert Soloranta ?

(I've been through 3 pages on my search engine, translating each page, and can find nothing aboiut the puzzle car!)
Not Evert Soloranta. I'm not sure who that is, but it does sound like you may be headed down the wrong rabbit hole.

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Re: GTE 329
« Reply #23 on: April 07, 2020, 09:20:36 PM »
Unlocked

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Re: GTE 329
« Reply #24 on: April 16, 2020, 06:51:33 PM »
Easy point for a Master ;)

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