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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.
One point 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 second point.

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Re: Art and cars #7
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2009, 01:34:52 PM »
Carroll Shelby?

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Re: Art and cars #7
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2009, 01:45:11 PM »
Did he paint or sang (outside of the bathroom), acted, wrote poems, novels...?
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Re: Art and cars #7
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2009, 03:31:33 PM »
Generation of the 1890s?
American?
Ernest Hemingway?
If so, the Bugatti in Garden of Eden?
Let's have a "yes" for the first line, at least!

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Re: Art and cars #7
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2009, 05:59:22 PM »
I think te "Erbas rule" applies here. So I'll answer only one question. You're a lucky man: I've decided to answer your second question, and the answer is YES.
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Re: Art and cars #7
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2009, 06:48:26 PM »
Doubly lucky, since I haven't the foggiest what the Erbas Rule might be.  Fascinating chairs, though.

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Re: Art and cars #7
« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2009, 06:16:00 AM »
Doubly lucky, since I haven't the foggiest what the Erbas Rule might be.

You could always search the forum. I'll spare you this though: The Erbas rule states that there's only one guess per post allowed. Therefore you can't for example ask for the country, make and year at once. Or name 5 companies and ask if any of them is correct.

This rule was named in memory of this thread: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=2420.0 :)
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Re: Art and cars #7
« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2009, 06:21:53 AM »
...the stuff of AutoPuzzles legend.  :)
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Re: Art and cars #7
« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2009, 03:50:29 PM »
Much obliged

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Re: Art and cars #7
« Reply #9 on: January 24, 2009, 04:05:41 PM »
Ludwig van Bethoven?

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Re: Art and cars #7
« Reply #10 on: January 24, 2009, 04:37:17 PM »
In what year do you think Ludwig was born, Arunas?
Or do you believe that photography was invented in the 18th century?
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Re: Art and cars #7
« Reply #11 on: January 25, 2009, 05:25:11 AM »
In what year do you think Ludwig was born, Arunas?
Or do you believe that photography was invented in the 18th century?
Damned clever, those 18th century Germans  8)
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Re: Art and cars #7
« Reply #12 on: January 25, 2009, 06:04:53 AM »
Fascinating chairs, though.
The chairs may roughly give an indication of where this man was born.
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Re: Art and cars #7
« Reply #13 on: January 25, 2009, 08:52:06 AM »
Is that John Ford?
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Re: Art and cars #7
« Reply #14 on: January 25, 2009, 12:22:28 PM »
John Ford was born in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, in 1894.
This is not John Ford.
So this answers max's first question: he is not of the generation of the 1890's.
And he is an American.
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Re: Art and cars #7
« Reply #15 on: January 25, 2009, 04:48:09 PM »
I think te "Erbas rule" applies here. So I'll answer only one question. You're a lucky man: I've decided to answer your second question, and the answer is YES.

LOL 

I am making history  :lmao:

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Re: Art and cars #7
« Reply #16 on: January 25, 2009, 06:54:12 PM »
LOL 

I am making history  :lmao:

Allow me to notice that you've already made it almost one and a half year ago :D
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Re: Art and cars #7
« Reply #17 on: January 27, 2009, 04:05:03 AM »
Time to move this one up.
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Re: Art and cars #7
« Reply #18 on: February 11, 2009, 12:37:08 PM »
All right, this one seems tough.
Upgraded to 2 points. And a clue, an answer to one of max's question:
He's not Ernest Hemingway, but there is a double connection between him and Hemingway.
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Re: Art and cars #7
« Reply #19 on: February 27, 2009, 04:28:09 PM »
One clue isn't enough?

They also were close friends.
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Re: Art and cars #7
« Reply #20 on: February 27, 2009, 06:26:16 PM »
Maybe Waldo Peirce?
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Re: Art and cars #7
« Reply #21 on: February 28, 2009, 04:12:46 AM »
Not Waldo Peirce.
Remeber that when I speak of art, I mean all the arts, not especially painting.
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Re: Art and cars #7
« Reply #22 on: February 28, 2009, 04:28:10 AM »
F. Scott Fitzgerald?

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Re: Art and cars #7
« Reply #23 on: February 28, 2009, 04:36:14 AM »
Fascinating chairs, though.
The chairs may roughly give an indication of where this man was born.
Maybe those chairs only speak to me but... they don't fit with Scott Fizgerald.
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Re: Art and cars #7
« Reply #24 on: February 28, 2009, 04:56:56 AM »
I have no idea what you mean with the chairs  :huh:

Apart from the fact that they look native american (is it the correct politically correct term for red indians?) to me. But the guy doesn't look like one.
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