Monty444 - Solved: car by DeLaSalle Education Center students, based on Lola

[el_monty]

Fellow Autopuzzlers, I haven't been able to find a specific name for this car but you can win a point if you tell me who built it and what it's based on.

Don't be naughty! Stay away from Google Search by Image, kids.

[el_monty]

Up to the Experts

[richard cuyler]

Gasp! Too revealing! Nobody should let their car go out dressed like that.

[el_monty]

Up to the Pros

[oko94]

Made in Europe ?

[el_monty]

It has been brought to my attention that this car is a repost, as it was featured years ago in a group puzzle. That puzzle was posted by a player who is now in the Pro level and solved by another Pro. Before posting I searched for all the combinations of the name I could think of, and the original thread didn't show up, I don't understand why.
In the past when I have reposted, I have been warned early enough that the post was still in the Rookie section, and I have simply replaced it with another. This is the first time that a puzzle of mine has made it all the way to the Pro section before someone realized it was a repost and let me know. I don't know what to do now, because at least three Pros on this board know this car (the original poster, the original solver, and the one who warned me) and could easily take the point. I have thought about moving it back to the Experts board, but I fear that might keep it languishing there for an indeterminate amount of time. Another option would be to merge this thread with the original, though that also seems sub-optimal because that was a group puzzle rather than a single one. What do you guys recommend?

[Wendax]

Built by the students from the DeLaSalle Education Center, Kansas City, Missouri, around a Lola Indy race car.

Just read your previous post now. Usually a car featured in a group puzzle is not regarded as a repost, when it is posted as a standalone puzzle years later on. And yes, I recognized it from the former group puzzle, although (or perhaps because) I didn't identify it back then.

[el_monty]

There, it's solved now. Wendax, I hope that you'll understand if I don't award a point this time, bearing in mind that you earned a whopping 27 points from the original puzzle back in 2011 (https://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2011-39/solved-almost-alone-by-wendax-cars-and-places-third-edition/), and that you are the current point leader!

[Wendax]

Do whatever makes you feel comfortable.

[Allemano]

It has been brought to my attention that this car is a repost, as it was featured years ago in a group puzzle. That puzzle was posted by a player who is now in the Pro level and solved by another Pro. Before posting I searched for all the combinations of the name I could think of, and the original thread didn't show up, I don't understand why.
In the past when I have reposted, I have been warned early enough that the post was still in the Rookie section, and I have simply replaced it with another. This is the first time that a puzzle of mine has made it all the way to the Pro section before someone realized it was a repost and let me know. I don't know what to do now, because at least three Pros on this board know this car (the original poster, the original solver, and the one who warned me) and could easily take the point. I have thought about moving it back to the Experts board, but I fear that might keep it languishing there for an indeterminate amount of time. Another option would be to merge this thread with the original, though that also seems sub-optimal because that was a group puzzle rather than a single one. What do you guys recommend?

Guess I was the author of that group puzzle back in the days (Somebody remembers the time when Wendax still was an Expert? ).
Usually we did it the way that group puzzle cars weren't excluded from becoming puzzles in its own right, so, no problem!