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Puzzle #598 - Solved! Rockefeller Yankee
« on: November 15, 2007, 05:34:15 AM »


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Re: Puzzle #598
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2007, 08:53:26 PM »
Well, it's obviously the world's most sectioned Shoebox Ford, but other than that, I haven't a clue...



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Re: Puzzle #598
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2007, 02:04:43 AM »
While this car does have Ford mechanical bits, subsequent examples of this car were distantly related to another American sports car.
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Re: Puzzle #598
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2007, 02:57:30 AM »
That isn't  Woody Woodill is it?


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Re: Puzzle #598
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2007, 05:35:16 AM »
No sir.
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Re: Puzzle #598
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2007, 04:51:32 PM »
I believe this is the metal prototype for the Rockefeller Yankee, portrayed with one of its two 'fathers', Jim Rockefeller, in 1961. The car was eventually produced and sold in an unknown number, with fibreglass bodies - probably the first production fibreglass-bodied sports car in the US, as the first Corvette was delivered after the first Yankee was sold.

The sports car that it is distantly related to, is... also the Corvette. Because the company that built the fibreglass bodies for the Yankee was the same company that built the bodies for the Corvette.
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Re: Puzzle #598
« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2007, 02:57:59 AM »
Yep.
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Re: Puzzle #598 - Solved! Rockefeller Yankee
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2013, 10:29:39 AM »
Another interesting picture.
I was sure it was the same car but now I note some differences...Is there someone who knows more?
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Re: Puzzle #598 - Solved! Rockefeller Yankee
« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2013, 11:01:04 AM »
The puzzle car was metal bodied, and led to the plastic-body production version seen in the ad.
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Re: Puzzle #598 - Solved! Rockefeller Yankee
« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2013, 06:43:06 PM »
The plastic-bodied version appeared here before: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=14803.0
Oh, good old times when I was a rookie ....  ::)
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