Topic: Art and cars #18 - Solved! Clark Gable and "his" Jensen Ford

[Ray B.]

Who is he, and what car can he be associated with?

Art and cars. Painters, writers, musicians, actors, movie makers: in a nutshell, artists. Cars of special importance in their work, or in their life.
This one, being relatively easy, will be worth just 1 point. Tougher ones will be worth 2, one for the artist, one for the car.
Rule of this puzzle is: you identify the artist, you have one week to find the car. After that, the hunt is opened and anyone can rob you of your point.

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[Ray B.]

If i make this one a 2 point puzzle, will it stir your imagination?
This man once had the exact same car as another "Art and Cars" artist, already solved.
However, this not the car I want you to find, once you'll have his identity.

Another picture. Of course, here again, there is something missing.

[D-type]

Is it Hitler without his moustache?
If so the car could be the VW

[Ray B.]

The missing part IS a moustache.

But it's not Hitler.
By the way, Adolf may have been an artist, shortly, but it's not what made him famous, right?

[DynaMike]

First I thought of Franz Kafka, but now you mention the missing moustache... Could this be a youth portrait of Salvador Dalí, to be linked for example to a 1941 Cadillac.

[Ray B.]

No, it's not Dali, and not a 1941 Cadillac.
I reckon he's hard to recognize in those youthful portraits...

[Ray B.]

Pros, have at it !

[Allemano]

It's Clark Gable and he is often related to Duesenbergs

[Ray B.]

This man once had the exact same car as another "Art and Cars" artist, already solved.
However, this not the car I want you to find, once you'll have his identity.

Yes, it is Clark Gable, but as you see above the car I am after is not a Duesenberg.
It's another car he owned and has been photographed with.
Locked for you one week.

[Allemano]

I've found a pic where he postures beside a Packard Twin Six.

[Ray B.]

Not this one. A rarer breed.
Actually, I just found out that he never really owned it, contrarily to common belief. Why, the story is unclear. But there is a well-known photo with him with that car that helped accredit the notion that he did.

[Allemano]

Not in a rare one, but there's a pic showing him (with moustache!) sitting at the wheel of a Jaguar XK120 which originally was sold to American motoring journalist Henry N. Manney.

There are also Lincoln Continental pics in stock...

[Allemano]

Or do you're waiting for a Jensen Ford?

[Ray B.]

I was, and for that picture too, who always struck me. That british look about him, all of a sudden...
From what I read, whether he ordered the car, then cancelled his order, but still posed for publicity shots with it, or he wanted to buy it but eventually could not... Why?

You spoke of a Duesenberg too. That's what I meant when I said "This man once had the exact same car as another "Art and Cars" artist, already solved." He is supposed to have had the exact same car as Gary Cooper, who was the subject of Art and Cars #7.