Topic: What Was That?!

[Otto Puzzell]

Number 5 is, or was, an AC 3000ME

Quite right!

[Ray B.]

Could WWT3 be a Mercedes Benz ?

[Otto Puzzell]

No sir, not an M-B

[Ray B.]

No sir, not an M-B

P'toh! (french translation of D'oh, if this is as I guess Homer Simpson's favorite exclamation). Un seul être me manque, et tout est dépeuplé!

[Otto Puzzell]

Huh?

[Ray B.]

Quote from an XVIIth century play. Roughly, I meant that for one  unsolved question on thirteen, we have to wait until who knows when to get this puzzled moved and our reward.
EDIT: Not a XVIIth century play, a XIXth century poem. The same kind of stuff you eventually hate because you've had to study them too long in highschool.
Babelfish translation: "You miss only one being and all is depopulated"

[Otto Puzzell]

Yes.......of course. 

[Ray B.]

As expressed in a poetic way just above, there are a couple of these group puzzles that been solved but for ONE car, AND THIS IS BEGINNING TO DRIVE ME MAD.
So (if we have the right to ask that kind of questions now): is #3 a British car?

[Otto Puzzell]

It is not British.

This car is from the land of bathtub gin and Dynaflow transmissions.

[Ray B.]

Meaning Michigan, USA, or the town where the Dynaflow plant was (which I haven't found yet)?

[Ray B.]

Whatever, was Car #3 a Kissel speedster, 1920 or 21? (In what case I don't know why it's a right hand drive, but since it's been modified...). These were built in Wisconsin. There is now a company named Dynaflow in Madison, Wisconsin. I don't know if it's the same that built the transmissions for Buick.

[Otto Puzzell]

Not a Kissel. The Dynaflows used in Buicks were built in-house, I believe.

[Ray B.]

Damn! The Kissel speedster was a good candidate: sporty car, same general look, same low position of the headlights, and all of them factory -painted yellow.

[Ray B.]

It couldn't be based on a 1922 Buick (if I take the Dynaflow answer as a clue, you're right, the plant was in Flint) and built by John Battistini? It doesn't look completely like the two I saw, but enough. Who knows?

[Otto Puzzell]

It couldn't be based on a 1922 Buick (if I take the Dynaflow answer as a clue, you're right, the plant was in Flint) and built by John Battistini? It doesn't look completely like the two I saw, but enough. Who knows?

Bingo! It''s a Buick - I'll tally up and dole out the points in the next day or so.

[Ray B.]

Thanks. Will you explain who modified it and why it's a RHD?

[Otto Puzzell]

Thanks. Will you explain who modified it and why it's a RHD?

Um - no. Because it's not a Buick. 

Working from memory is not my forte. My apologies to you and everyone else who worked on this puzzle. 

However, it is a run-of-the-mill American brand, that is still in business, though somewhat day-to-day, of late. I have no idea as to why it is RHD, other than it may have been an export.

Because I screwed this up, I'll give you an exclusive opportunity to solve this one until tomorrow (Wednesday).   

[Ray B.]

Thanks, Otto, but I prefer to leave it open to everyone. I'm not too good with cars before 1930, and more anxious to see this solved than to get an extra point. I'll keep searching, though.

[Otto Puzzell]

OK - open to all!

Thanks, Ray.

[Ray B.]

However, it is a run-of-the-mill American brand, that is still in business, though somewhat day-to-day, of late.  

My turn: a brand of the Big Three? A Cadillac with a Schutte body, maybe? (I'm not sure what "somewhat day-to-day" means).

[Otto Puzzell]

Yes, a big three brand. Not a Cadillac.

[Ray B.]

A problem of language subtleties: as I said, I am not sure of what you mean by "though somewhat day-to-day, of late". That this company just keeps on building cars by habit, without creating anything new, like a car that is coasting?
I rather ask than to try every Big Three make one after another.

[Otto Puzzell]

A problem of language subtleties: as I said, I am not sure of what you mean by "though somewhat day-to-day, of late". That this company just keeps on building cars by habit, without creating anything new, like a car that is coasting?
I rather ask than to try every Big Three make one after another.

One big three automaker is rather more likely to disappear in the very near future.

[Ray B.]

That's what I thought, and I was about to say Chrysler.
So I say a Chrysler roadster, but I didn't find the car and cannot be more precise.

[Otto Puzzell]

From what is now a Chrysler brand, but not at the time this car was built.