Author Topic: Art and cars #19 - Solved! Charles Addams, car-toonist (Read 1558 times)

Ray B. · « **on:** April 06, 2009, 01:47:14 PM »

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 is a 2 point puzzle.
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. · « **Reply #1 on:** April 06, 2009, 07:16:59 PM »

The lovely lady has been replaced by this fellow above, you didn't dream her.
I have been warned by Otto P. that, in this big world, we had managed to use the same dame for our arty puzzles. So I changed, and of course I won't guess his if it ever makes it to the pro section.

Ray B. · « **Reply #2 on:** April 14, 2009, 04:21:10 AM »

An Expert is needed.

Ray B. · « **Reply #3 on:** April 27, 2009, 04:21:34 AM »

Pros?

Allemano · « **Reply #4 on:** April 27, 2009, 04:31:36 AM »

A writer?

Ray B. · « **Reply #5 on:** April 27, 2009, 04:34:23 AM »

Not a writer.

Allemano · « **Reply #6 on:** April 27, 2009, 04:36:08 AM »

An actor, then?

Ray B. · « **Reply #7 on:** April 27, 2009, 04:37:19 AM »

Not an actor.

Allemano · « **Reply #8 on:** April 27, 2009, 04:46:00 AM »

a director? (he looks quite commanding...)

ImpishGrin · « **Reply #9 on:** April 27, 2009, 04:57:55 AM »

un pittore?

Ray B. · « **Reply #10 on:** April 27, 2009, 05:39:29 AM »

Not a director. Not a painter "stricto sensu", but this is closer.

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #11 on:** April 30, 2009, 05:57:33 AM »

Is that Alexander Calder, the artist credited with creating the first 'mobiles', and also of BMW "Art Car" fame?

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #12 on:** April 30, 2009, 12:07:19 PM »

I think I found the actor and the car...

Ray B. · « **Reply #13 on:** May 01, 2009, 07:27:40 AM »

Not Calder.

Ray B. · « **Reply #14 on:** May 15, 2009, 05:00:35 PM »

In a way, Paul Jaray is the closest when it comes to the man's profession.

Ray B. · « **Reply #15 on:** June 14, 2009, 10:11:13 AM »

Quote from: Ray B. on May 15, 2009, 05:00:35 PM

In a way, Paul Jaray is the closest when it comes to the man's profession....

... but the eyes he does are quite the opposite of Mr Magoo's.

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #16 on:** June 26, 2009, 03:11:40 AM »

That's Charles Addams, the cartoonist. He died of a heart attack behind the wheel of his Audi

Edit - spelling corrected

Ray B. · « **Reply #17 on:** June 26, 2009, 03:45:29 AM »

YES !
I think this one was quite hard, as these cartoonists' face is not often known.
But the Audi is not the car I am after. Not to say that it's common to die of a heart attack in an Audi... I am after something more special for this second point.

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #18 on:** June 26, 2009, 03:53:42 AM »

Cousin It's KR200 Messerschmitt?

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #19 on:** June 26, 2009, 04:02:24 AM »

The Packard in the 1992 movie?

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #20 on:** June 26, 2009, 04:05:35 AM »

Addams raced in car rallies in Bridgehampton and Sagaponack and collected vintage cars, including a 1933 Aston Martin Le Mans.

Ray B. · « **Reply #21 on:** June 26, 2009, 04:50:28 AM »

I'll take the Aston Martin. Here are some others.
I am curious: how did you find him? Did you just recognize him, or did you follow my Yvonne DeCarlo-Carolyn Jones clue?

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #22 on:** June 26, 2009, 12:11:30 PM »

As usual, I took the long way home.

I suspected ftg3plus4's puzzle was a cartoonist (before somebody else picked up his clues), and looked at bios of one cartoonist after another. Then I found the very picture you had posted above, in a blog entry about Addams.

Ray B. · « **Reply #23 on:** June 26, 2009, 12:28:19 PM »

All right. The clues that you yourself and streamliner unvoluntarily gave for this one, in the Art and cars puzzle with the girl dancing on a car, were Carolyn Jones, who played Morticia in the TV adaptation "The Addams family. And Yvonne DeCarlo, who played Lily Munster in the rival and Addams-inspired series "The Munsters".

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #24 on:** June 26, 2009, 01:25:20 PM »

I rather enjoy the long journey to the solution - which often involves stumbling across the answer by accident - more so than knowing the answer (or where to find it) right off the bat.

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Author Topic: Art and cars #19 - Solved! Charles Addams, car-toonist (Read 1558 times)