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Re: Puzzle #688
« Reply #50 on: January 25, 2008, 08:29:20 AM »
The problem with Chinese (mandarin) is that transliteration into the Roman alphabet is a hit and miss process - eg Dong feng/Tung feng.  Translation is also hit and miss eg East Wind/Dawn Wind.  So similar names in 'English' may be the same in Chinese
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Re: Puzzle #688
« Reply #51 on: January 26, 2008, 02:30:37 AM »
The correct compass direction - part of the name - was mentioned in one of the answers above...
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Re: Puzzle #688
« Reply #52 on: January 30, 2008, 05:47:37 AM »
The other half of the name is an adjective...
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Re: Puzzle #688
« Reply #53 on: January 31, 2008, 02:49:34 PM »
Whoever styled it was a real master...I see echoes of a 1957 Ford, a 1958 Studebaker, a 1956 Chevrolet, and a 1958 Ford...the single headlight version even has some Rambler overtones in the grille...the guy coulda worked for George Barris...


But I'm lost for a name...


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Re: Puzzle #688
« Reply #54 on: January 31, 2008, 06:28:34 PM »
Quote from: KarnUtz
The correct compass direction - part of the name - was mentioned in one of the answers above...
The other half of the name is an adjective...
... East or East ... Something.

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Re: Puzzle #688
« Reply #55 on: February 01, 2008, 03:21:18 AM »
Mystic East, Red East or similar?
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Re: Puzzle #688
« Reply #56 on: February 01, 2008, 04:44:28 AM »
Very close...
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Re: Puzzle #688
« Reply #57 on: February 01, 2008, 05:19:26 AM »
Go East . . (young man)
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Re: Puzzle #688
« Reply #58 on: February 01, 2008, 05:40:24 AM »
 ;D
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Re: Puzzle #688
« Reply #59 on: February 03, 2008, 08:47:32 AM »
Think back to an earlier clue...
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Re: Puzzle #688
« Reply #60 on: February 03, 2008, 09:01:11 AM »
There is something of "Japanese" related to Feng-Huang\Phoenix\Shangai?

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Re: Puzzle #688
« Reply #61 on: February 03, 2008, 09:10:56 AM »
Japanese connection to the name, not the car.
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Re: Puzzle #688
« Reply #62 on: February 03, 2008, 09:25:21 AM »
I got that, but is "Japanese" the adjective you told before or something like "east" ? And the part mentioned before was again "east" or Feng-Huang\Whattehelll\Phoenix\Shangai?

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Re: Puzzle #688
« Reply #63 on: February 03, 2008, 10:17:31 AM »
There is a tie-in with what Japan is often referred to as. With that name in mind, the East takes on a specific characteristic.
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Re: Puzzle #688
« Reply #64 on: February 03, 2008, 10:19:51 AM »
There's the sun involved? Like Rising sun?

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Re: Puzzle #688
« Reply #65 on: February 03, 2008, 10:21:06 AM »
Though the sun is not part of the name of this car, you are on the right track...
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Re: Puzzle #688
« Reply #66 on: February 03, 2008, 11:39:01 PM »
Eastern Samurai?  Shogun?


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Re: Puzzle #688
« Reply #67 on: February 04, 2008, 02:03:42 AM »
Paul's last guess was closer to correct.
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Re: Puzzle #688
« Reply #68 on: February 04, 2008, 02:36:55 AM »
Rising East?  ;D

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Re: Puzzle #688
« Reply #69 on: February 04, 2008, 06:08:53 AM »
...kamikaze...sword...

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Re: Puzzle #688
« Reply #70 on: February 04, 2008, 11:38:10 AM »
East rising.

East Sun.

Dawn Sun.

Rising Dawn.

I feel like I am doing a poetry excersize.   :-\
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Re: Puzzle #688
« Reply #71 on: February 04, 2008, 11:59:59 AM »
OK, so what happens to the East when the sun rises?
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Re: Puzzle #688
« Reply #72 on: February 04, 2008, 12:53:52 PM »
Rising Light?
Rising Day?
Rising Deads?
Eastern Light?
Eastern Sunrise?
Eastern Dawn?
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Re: Puzzle #688
« Reply #73 on: February 04, 2008, 01:00:51 PM »
Eastern Day?
Eastern Rise?
Rising East?
Rising Eastern Sushi?
Eastern Banzai Rising Child?
Eastern Kamikaze Rising Sword?


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Re: Puzzle #688
« Reply #74 on: February 04, 2008, 02:50:46 PM »
Waking East?

I must say I have a feeling that Paul really wants this one :D
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