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SOLVED - Whaddyacallit #2 - 1955 Hansen Cobra
« on: December 09, 2007, 07:57:07 AM »
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Re: Whaddyacallit #2
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2007, 11:49:45 AM »
Maybe that one deserves the pros...
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Re: Whaddyacallit #2
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2007, 04:01:11 PM »
This is the 1955 "Cobra Roadster"  Concept by Wally Hansen, now exhibited in the Petersen Motorama.

It even took part in the movies in 1959:


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Re: Whaddyacallit #2
« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2007, 04:26:55 PM »
Well it is, and if someone could identify that one it was you. The story is, I first saw that beautiful car in the movie on imcdb.org, and eventually identified it from a picture in the Petersen Museum.
On that same website there was another mystery car (the Dan LaLee) that lead me to a post YOU made in Hemmings Motor Blog. Then I followed the lead  to Autopuzzles.com. I guess you just made the same for the Hansen.
Well done!
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Re: SOLVED - Whaddyacallit #2 - 1955 Hansen Cobra
« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2007, 10:23:32 AM »
Haha, brave new internet world.

Some times I really wonder how many terrabytes of useless knowledge flow through my brain...

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Re: SOLVED - Whaddyacallit #2 - 1955 Hansen Cobra
« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2007, 11:28:18 AM »
There's no such thing as useless knowledge. But sometimes I do too.
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Re: SOLVED - Whaddyacallit #2 - 1955 Hansen Cobra
« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2014, 08:03:18 AM »
Pictures were gone, uploaded again.
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Re: SOLVED - Whaddyacallit #2 - 1955 Hansen Cobra
« Reply #7 on: January 03, 2015, 10:19:36 AM »
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