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#1715 - Man & Machine - Tony Lapine Corvair Monza GT buck
« on: August 27, 2010, 05:26:17 AM »
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Re: Friday Fun Puzzle #1715 - Man & Machine
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2010, 07:18:28 AM »
You Rookies call yourselves AutoPuzzlers?! :ranton:
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Re: Friday Fun Puzzle #1715 - Man & Machine
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2010, 09:01:10 PM »
Norm James in a styling buck for one of GM's Motorama Firebirds?
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Re: Friday Fun Puzzle #1715 - Man & Machine
« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2010, 04:00:10 AM »
No, not him. And not that car.
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Re: Friday Fun Puzzle #1715 - Man & Machine
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2010, 09:00:33 PM »
No, not him. And not that car.

HaHA! You fell for my fiendish plan of process of elimination by uninformed guessing. Now I've narrowed it down to the remaining 11,938,566,212 people who have ever lived during the existence of the necktie, and likewise to the 42,712 cars which reached the design phase during the age of photography!
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Re: Friday Fun Puzzle #1715 - Man & Machine
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2010, 03:58:43 AM »
An admirable estimation of the remaining task. :D

This designer is more well-know than Norm James, in my opinion.
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Re: Friday Fun Puzzle #1715 - Man & Machine
« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2010, 08:29:52 AM »
And now, a speedy Pro solution!
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Re: Friday Fun Puzzle #1715 - Man & Machine
« Reply #7 on: September 19, 2010, 09:05:16 AM »
That´s a little bit tricky. I´ve found this photo in May 2009, described as "Porsche_15" at some website.


But as I´m quite sure it is not a 904 GTS or anything alike, I think it must be some GM concept car, maybe a pre-presentation version of the Corvair Monza GT.
And - as I hope I am not totally wrong, a photographer named "Madler" was active for GM in those days...

The man might be Norman J.James.
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Re: Friday Fun Puzzle #1715 - Man & Machine
« Reply #8 on: September 19, 2010, 04:28:38 PM »
Quote from: grobmotorix link=topic=13613.msg120224#msg120224 date=
That´s a little bit tricky. I´ve found this photo in May 2009, described as "Porsche_15" at some website.


But as I´m quite sure it is not a 904 GTS or anything alike, I think it must be some GM concept car, maybe a pre-presentation version of the Corvair Monza GT.
And - as I hope I am not totally wrong, a photographer named "Madler" was active for GM in those days...

The man might be Norman J.James.


Not him, but you are much closer

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Re: Friday Fun Puzzle #1715 - Man & Machine
« Reply #9 on: September 22, 2010, 01:14:02 PM »
Anatole Lapine and Larry Shinoda ??

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Re: Friday Fun Puzzle #1715 - Man & Machine
« Reply #10 on: September 22, 2010, 01:19:26 PM »
Are replying to Grob's picture, or the puzzle question?
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Re: Friday Fun Puzzle #1715 - Man & Machine
« Reply #11 on: September 22, 2010, 01:20:10 PM »
Aaaargh! Didn't notice that it entered the Professionals:

Caption from Car Styling: “A happy Shinoda and Lapine in the seating buck.” (of a Corvair Monza GT)

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Re: Friday Fun Puzzle #1715 - Man & Machine
« Reply #12 on: September 22, 2010, 03:05:20 PM »
That's it! Props to Grob and Max for pointing out parts of the answer.

Point for you for answering the stated puzzle question.
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