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Puzzle #911 - Solved! Miller-Crosley
« on: July 05, 2008, 06:55:48 AM »
Know what it is?

Please, respond below and let us know the make and model designation of the car posted here.

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« Last Edit: September 17, 2011, 08:48:12 AM by Otto Puzzell »
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Re: Puzzle #911
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2008, 05:09:16 AM »
:drive:
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Re: Puzzle #911
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2008, 03:44:27 AM »
Pros, please put this to bed.  :)
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Re: Puzzle #911
« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2008, 05:48:31 AM »
This is a Miller-Crosley owned and probably driven by John Bukovski at Del Mar
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Re: Puzzle #911
« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2008, 08:59:37 AM »
To be moved to the 'Solved' section?

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Re: Puzzle #911
« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2008, 01:03:45 PM »
Yes, I should probably flag this one solved. But since nobody had invoked the eye-rolling smiley yet, I was not sure if it was time just yet.  ;)
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Re: Puzzle #911
« Reply #6 on: September 19, 2008, 01:06:40 PM »
Yes, patience is a gift.

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An Easy One From MG
« Reply #7 on: September 21, 2009, 07:19:35 AM »
Came across this photo recently. I didn't know what it was. Thought maybe you guys don't either. And no, it is NOT lowdrag in a child's version of a Jaguar D-Type!   :lmao:
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Re: Puzzle #911 - Solved! Miller-Crosley
« Reply #8 on: September 21, 2009, 07:52:41 AM »
Merged
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Re: An Easy One From MG
« Reply #9 on: September 21, 2009, 07:53:03 AM »
Did you come across it here? ;D
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« Reply #10 on: September 21, 2009, 01:48:29 PM »
Found this photo looking for something else. Any of y'all know what it is? And no, it is NOT a picture of lowdrag as a boy in his D Type trainer!   :lmao:

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Re: An Easy One From MG
« Reply #11 on: September 21, 2009, 01:49:38 PM »
 H Mod guys... Here's a Crosley powered Special at Del Mar.

Who's driving?  Is the hood about to fly off?

2-3-06   Tom Churchill adds:

"In your first H-mod page the car #290 is a Miller-Crosley owned and usually driven by John Bukowski. This was the twelfth car built by Don Miller according to the list printed in the Small Times."
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Re: An Easy One From MG
« Reply #12 on: September 21, 2009, 02:08:53 PM »
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Re: An Easy One From MG
« Reply #13 on: September 21, 2009, 02:21:12 PM »
How come this is here, and here: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=9392.0

Because MG didn't do a search and frankly I don't give a damn.  Just glad to get him posting here again.

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Re: An Easy One From MG
« Reply #14 on: September 21, 2009, 02:24:23 PM »
And I am too, and happy to meet Alfred E. Neumann at last!
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Re: An Easy One From MG
« Reply #15 on: September 21, 2009, 02:32:27 PM »
Geez - I gotta merge 'em again.
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Re: An Easy One From MG
« Reply #16 on: September 21, 2009, 02:34:42 PM »
Geez - I gotta merge 'em again.

I would wait till he sees this or he is likely to post it again.

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Re: An Easy One From MG
« Reply #17 on: September 21, 2009, 02:40:57 PM »
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Re: An Easy One From MG
« Reply #18 on: September 21, 2009, 03:43:31 PM »
Geez - I gotta merge 'em again.

I would wait till he sees this or he is likely to post it again.

 ;)

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Re: An Easy One From MG
« Reply #19 on: September 21, 2009, 08:01:05 PM »
Yikes. I am terribly embarrassed. Such incompetence. Can you say "early Alzheimer's", boys and girls?  I DID try to put this up earlier but when I went back to find it, I couldn't. Thought I hit "preview" instead fo "post" again. I do that a lot, as the order of the buttons is reversed from what I am used to at CarNuts. I think Otto probably did that on purpose!   :lmao:

Anyway, all's well that end's well, I suppose. 2 points to anyone who can identify the origin of that line!    ???
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Re: An Easy One From MG
« Reply #20 on: September 22, 2009, 03:38:03 AM »
Nostradamus?
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Re: An Easy One From MG
« Reply #21 on: September 22, 2009, 03:42:36 AM »
What line? This one?

all's well that end's well

Well, except Shakespeare, it appears often in the last page of the "Tintin" albums, if I remember well.
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Re: An Easy One From MG
« Reply #22 on: September 22, 2009, 03:59:33 AM »
What line? This one?

all's well that end's well

Well, except Shakespeare, it appears often in the last page of the "Tintin" albums, if I remember well.
Shakespeare did not include the second (incorrect) apostrophe ;D
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Re: An Easy One From MG
« Reply #23 on: September 22, 2009, 07:06:24 AM »
Yikes! I have been busted by the apostrophe police!   :o

Yes, the second apostrophe was a typo.

The entire line I sought to tease your collective brains with is, in its entirety:

"All's well that ends well.....I suppose".

Guesses?
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Re: An Easy One From MG
« Reply #24 on: September 22, 2009, 08:14:58 AM »
A captain bold, in Halifax
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