Puzzle #154 - Solved! Eliot Cricket III

[Otto Puzzell]

I was being fac....fas....I was kidding!

[Ultra]

I was being fac....fas....I was kidding!

We don't need any more goats.  We need heroes.

[Otto Puzzell]

 

[Otto Puzzell]

I forgot the 

[GTO48]

is the device at the top a high mounted brake or fog light or similar?

Amphibious?

[Otto Puzzell]

It is a type of light. The car is not amphibious.

[pieter]

If the roof gadget is some kind of distance sensor to stop it from running into things, it obviously doesn't work, judging by the dents on the nose...

[Otto Puzzell]

It is a type of light

[Arthur Dent]

Perhaps a laser?

[MG]

Well, since the car appears to have no other front mounted lights, perhaps this IS the headlight? And taillight as well, from the rear. And when turning, a little bird pops out of either side and says "Cuckoo. Cuckoo"

Now, of course, the question remains: Why would anyone put the headlight on the roof?  Perhaps the car was an advertising medium for a manuafacturer of cupolas?     Or perhaps the designed had broken several headlamps by running into things, people and other cars and was determined to put the damn thing someplace where it couldn't get broken?  Then again, it may an ultraviolet light and you have to wear special goggles to see anything.

I will tell you this much, Mr. Utz. This is one of the most damnably consternating puzzles yet, one which YOU, as the poser of questions, must take great pride in posting. But we will GET you, sir. Oh yes we will. Someday, someplace, when you least expect it, we will find you and we will beat you severely about the head and shoulders with our cudgels until you reveal the answer to this riddle.  I haven't slept in three days. I'm losing weight. My cat and my dog avoid me.  'Tis a terrible curse you have visited upon us, sir.

VENGEANCE IS MINE, SAYETH MG!     

[Tifosi]

Is it a Rumpler?



Dan

[Tifosi]

Well, since the car appears to have no other front mounted lights, perhaps this IS the headlight? And taillight as well, from the rear. And when turning, a little bird pops out of either side and says "Cuckoo. Cuckoo"

Now, of course, the question remains: Why would anyone put the headlight on the roof?  Perhaps the car was an advertising medium for a manuafacturer of cupolas?     Or perhaps the designed had broken several headlamps by running into things, people and other cars and was determined to put the damn thing someplace where it couldn't get broken?  Then again, it may an ultraviolet light and you have to wear special goggles to see anything.

I will tell you this much, Mr. Utz. This is one of the most damnably consternating puzzles yet, one which YOU, as the poser of questions, must take great pride in posting. But we will GET you, sir. Oh yes we will. Someday, someplace, when you least expect it, we will find you and we will beat you severely about the head and shoulders with our cudgels until you reveal the answer to this riddle.  I haven't slept in three days. I'm losing weight. My cat and my dog avoid me.  'Tis a terrible curse you have visited upon us, sir.

VENGEANCE IS MINE, SAYETH MG!     

Stewie Griffin lives ar t Auto Puzzles.com...



Dan

[MG]

Stewie Griffin lives ar t Auto Puzzles.com...

Hmmmm.....you may have a point there. I'd ask Rich for his take on this but his fees are outrageous!   

Personality

Stewie is extremely intelligent and speaks with an affected English accent. His Machiavellian ambitions not only include world domination, but matricide. In the commentary of one episode, MacFarlane reveals that Stewie's evil personality is a result of Lois smoking marijuana while pregnant with him, which she said in a dream sequence in the episode "Mr. Griffin Goes to Washington": "You're an evil child! Why, oh why did I smoke pot while I was pregnant with you?".

Stewie has a sophisticated style, attitude and mannerisms, juxtaposed with typical childish interests. He enjoys literature such as Marlowe's Faust, Machiavelli, and Sun-Tzu (the latter two he read for advice on world domination). He cites pop culture references that date much farther back than his age would permit; however he has also shown an affinity for children's singer Raffi and has a hypnotic attraction to the Teletubbies. Stewie also succumbs to other failings of children his age: in "Emission Impossible", Lois subdues Stewie by blowing on his stomach. At one point Peter convinces Stewie that he has vanished into thin air by playing peek-a-boo with him. MacFarlane has stated that Stewie is meant to represent the general helplessness of an infant through the eyes of an adult. Consequently, his longing to conquer the world is based upon his desire for control over his own life.

Stewie is a scientific genius, apparently able to master physics and mechanical engineering, as well as construct a bewildering variety of machines including lasers, advanced fighter-jets, mind control devices, weather-control devices, robots, and even time machines. He frequently uses these devices to cope with the stresses of infant life (such as the pain from teething and his hatred of broccoli), to kill Lois, or for other purposes, such as destroying all of the sperm in Peter's body so he will not have to compete with another baby.

[Tifosi]

Werd..


Dan

[Otto Puzzell]

Is it a Rumpler?

Dan

No. It shares it's name with an underacheiving small car sold some decades later.

[Otto Puzzell]

Well, since the car appears to have no other front mounted lights, perhaps this IS the headlight?

Yes!

And taillight as well, from the rear. And when turning, a little bird pops out of either side and says "Cuckoo. Cuckoo"

No, and no. The thing that makes this configuration of headlight worthwhile would make a taillight decidedly less worthwhile.

Now, of course, the question remains: Why would anyone put the headlight on the roof? 

What's important about the headlight is not where it is, but what it's capable of doing.

Perhaps the car was an advertising medium for a manufacturer of cupolas?

No.

Or perhaps the designed had broken several headlamps by running into things, people and other cars and was determined to put the damn thing someplace where it couldn't get broken? 

While those maladies might have befallen the builder, making the light less susceptible to breakage was not his objective, to the best of my knowledge.

Then again, it may an ultraviolet light and you have to wear special goggles to see anything.

No

I will tell you this much, Mr. Utz. This is one of the most damnably consternating puzzles yet, one which YOU, as the poser of questions, must take great pride in posting. But we will GET you, sir. Oh yes we will. Someday, someplace, when you least expect it, we will find you and we will beat you severely about the head and shoulders with our cudgels until you reveal the answer to this riddle.  I haven't slept in three days. I'm losing weight. My cat and my dog avoid me.  'Tis a terrible curse you have visited upon us, sir.

VENGEANCE IS MINE, SAYETH MG!     

C'est la vie.

[Otto Puzzell]

Perhaps a laser?

No.

[GTO48]

Headlight turns with the vehicle like Preston Tucker envisioned? And as some of the new Lexus' are doing?

Is this an early vehicle by Tucker?

[Otto Puzzell]

Headlight turns with the vehicle like Preston Tucker envisioned?

Yes!

But this car was built before the Tucker.

[GTO48]

Very early Tatra prototype?

[Otto Puzzell]

No. This car was US built.

[Otto Puzzell]

[Otto Puzzell]

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[erbas]

1938 Eliot Cricket III

[MG]

You mean to tell me there was an Eliot Cricket I and an Eliot Cricket II?   

Ridiculous......