Puzzle #598 - Solved! Rockefeller Yankee

[Otto Puzzell]

Know what it is?

Please, respond below and let us know the make and model designation of the car posted here.

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[Tifosi]

Well, it's obviously the world's most sectioned Shoebox Ford, but other than that, I haven't a clue...



Dan

[Otto Puzzell]

While this car does have Ford mechanical bits, subsequent examples of this car were distantly related to another American sports car.

[Tifosi]

That isn't  Woody Woodill is it?


Dan

[Otto Puzzell]

No sir.

[@re]

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.

[Otto Puzzell]

Yep.

[targhediferro]

Another interesting picture.
I was sure it was the same car but now I note some differences...Is there someone who knows more?

[Otto Puzzell]

The puzzle car was metal bodied, and led to the plastic-body production version seen in the ad.

[Wendax]

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 ....