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solved: Mustang Player's Special (canada)
« on: May 04, 2007, 10:01:22 PM »
ok, this is probably too easy, but here goes.  You know what it is (duh!).  But, why was it painted like this?
certainly is an interesting look...
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Re: puzz4
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2007, 04:03:57 PM »
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Re: puzz4
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2007, 04:07:23 PM »
What's unusual about that - we often think US colour (sorry color) schemes are pretty strange ;D
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Re: puzz4
« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2007, 04:09:36 PM »
But, it isn't an AMC...Otherwise it might have been a standard factory paint scheme!!!
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Re: puzz4
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2007, 09:24:44 AM »
It looks like Brooks Stevens got his hands on a 1965 Ford Mustang...



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Re: puzz4
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2007, 09:43:13 AM »
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Re: puzz4
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2007, 06:04:51 PM »
Well, the car is US obviously, but the paint scheme is not.
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Re: puzz4
« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2007, 08:29:52 PM »
Bad taste.

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Re: puzz4
« Reply #8 on: May 21, 2007, 01:03:12 PM »
Perhaps to confuse enemy submarines?
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Re: puzz4
« Reply #9 on: May 25, 2007, 08:30:52 AM »
Was it related somehow to the black-and-white "bad behavior" flag used in racing?
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Re: puzz4
« Reply #10 on: May 25, 2007, 08:39:11 AM »
Interesting guess, but no.
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Re: puzz4
« Reply #11 on: May 26, 2007, 03:11:15 AM »
Painted for police use overseas?
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Re: puzz4
« Reply #12 on: May 26, 2007, 08:01:14 AM »
Nope.  Civilian use.  Owners of these cars (there were a handful) would have taken delivery of the car this way, though its not a factory paint job.
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Re: puzz4
« Reply #13 on: May 27, 2007, 04:29:54 AM »
Were they given to former WWII pilots as a commemoration of some sort?
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Re: puzz4
« Reply #14 on: May 27, 2007, 10:33:44 AM »
no
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Re: puzz4
« Reply #15 on: May 27, 2007, 12:05:56 PM »
Is it a corporate giveaway of some kind.
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Re: puzz4
« Reply #16 on: May 27, 2007, 12:23:50 PM »
yes!
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Re: puzz4
« Reply #17 on: April 05, 2008, 07:21:28 AM »
A puzzle in need of a fresh clue...
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Re: puzz4
« Reply #18 on: April 05, 2008, 09:55:43 AM »
Someone else who's gone dormant.
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Re: puzz4
« Reply #19 on: April 05, 2008, 11:20:36 AM »
Smoking is bad for you....
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Re: puzz4
« Reply #20 on: April 05, 2008, 11:38:06 AM »
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Re: puzz4
« Reply #21 on: April 05, 2008, 04:22:56 PM »
I've heard of a Canadian special called Player Special from 1966...
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Re: puzz4
« Reply #22 on: April 05, 2008, 06:05:58 PM »
there you go.
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Re: puzz4
« Reply #23 on: April 06, 2008, 07:01:25 AM »
Rothmans cigarettes corporate colours.
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Re: puzz4
« Reply #24 on: April 10, 2008, 12:07:08 PM »
I don't think this blue, especially as Paul Jaray's pic is monochromatic. It might also be black (see the first pic) and Black is the color of John Player Special. You'll tell me that there is no gold pinstripping. But the two-toning is also much more reminiscent of Marlboro than Rothman....
So I tend to agree more with Paul Jaray's Payer Special. He didn't invent it I suppose.

EDIT: I found a website showing packages of Player cigarettes sold in Canada. They more recent than 1965, but you can clearly see blue and white separated by an oblique line, same as on the Mustang.
http://www.cigarettes-collection.com/public/Pictures.asp?mode=country&country=Canada
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