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Whaddyacallit #382 - Solved! Bugatti Type 57 by Corsica
« on: July 31, 2009, 04:14:08 AM »


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Re: Whaddyacallit #382
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2009, 04:45:33 AM »
Experts, pick up your chance (I'd love to send some directly to the Pros', but with 248 puzzles it's too crowded up there.)
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Re: Whaddyacallit #382
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2009, 04:07:30 PM »
The houses look british and so is the mini traveller parked behind it. So is it British?

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Re: Whaddyacallit #382
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2009, 04:47:29 PM »
Some of it is, yes.
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Re: Whaddyacallit #382
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2009, 05:00:42 PM »
Very long shot: one-off based on a (perhaps Slough built) Traction Avant?

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Re: Whaddyacallit #382
« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2009, 05:10:02 PM »
Long shot indeed, but...  A different combination.
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Re: Whaddyacallit #382
« Reply #6 on: August 05, 2009, 06:12:02 PM »
My guess  ???

a Brough Superior
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Re: Whaddyacallit #382
« Reply #7 on: August 06, 2009, 02:59:22 AM »
Not one of those.
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Re: Whaddyacallit #382
« Reply #8 on: August 06, 2009, 06:18:00 AM »
Invicta?

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Re: Whaddyacallit #382
« Reply #9 on: August 06, 2009, 07:29:11 AM »
I am no big specialist of british cars, so I had to search and check if the Invicta was purely british as I thought, or had foreign stuff under the sheet metal.
I said that this car was only part british.

So, no Invicta.
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Re: Whaddyacallit #382
« Reply #10 on: August 06, 2009, 09:21:03 AM »
Jensen?

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Re: Whaddyacallit #382
« Reply #11 on: August 06, 2009, 03:44:36 PM »
Or that other Hudson-engined "British" car, the Railton?
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Re: Whaddyacallit #382
« Reply #12 on: August 09, 2009, 12:47:15 PM »
Neither Jensen nor Railton.
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Re: Whaddyacallit #382
« Reply #13 on: August 13, 2009, 05:30:58 AM »
Feeding the pros now
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Re: Whaddyacallit #382
« Reply #14 on: August 13, 2009, 02:34:40 PM »
Bugatti Type 57 by Corsica.
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Re: Whaddyacallit #382
« Reply #15 on: August 14, 2009, 08:21:47 AM »
Of course
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