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Re: Back seat drivers
« Reply #50 on: July 23, 2009, 01:30:35 PM »
Very close: It's not 1955 (see picture below) but 1954, and the radios are very close. So I'm giving you the point and we'll avoid beating around the bush, like:
- Close! You're just one year wrong...
- 1956 maybe?
- Nooooooo.... Look the other way around....
- Oh, I see! 1954!

But you'll have to wait until this group puzzle is completely solved to get it.

That's fine with me!  At least I know I have a Point coming my way...thank you!!! :)

I had a feeling it wasn't a '55.  It looked "older" than a '57 or '58, so I ruled those out.  I ruled out early 50s because it looked newer than those.  So, I guessed '55....



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Re: Back seat drivers
« Reply #51 on: August 05, 2009, 05:41:02 AM »
An iron and ironing board are not the only luxury fixtures car #6 has: pull the gizmo stacked behind the center armest and an electric barbecue comes out ! Quite handy.
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Re: Back seat drivers
« Reply #52 on: September 18, 2009, 11:10:17 AM »
 :)
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Re: Back seat drivers
« Reply #53 on: January 20, 2010, 04:15:14 AM »
#4 1933 Pierce-Arrow Silver Arrow?

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Re: Back seat drivers
« Reply #54 on: January 20, 2010, 04:38:35 AM »
#6 was featured in Popular Mechanics, January, 1951 edition: Room with bath on wheels, Louis Mattar's 1947 Cadillac equipped with several niceties
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Re: Back seat drivers
« Reply #55 on: January 23, 2010, 05:11:34 AM »
#4 1933 Pierce-Arrow Silver Arrow?
At last!
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Re: Back seat drivers
« Reply #56 on: January 23, 2010, 05:19:07 AM »
#6 was featured in Popular Mechanics, January, 1951 edition: Room with bath on wheels, Louis Mattar's 1947 Cadillac equipped with several niceties
At last again! Although it wasn't so easy, there are lots of pictures of Louis Mattar's Cadillac on the internet: except Popular Mechanics, I believe you can find some in Life (trough Google), and possibly SIA (through the Hemmings blog). They're all worthwhile.

Now this one would be solved, and all the points tallied, if someone would be kind enough to give us the year of the Hudson interior.

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Re: Back seat drivers
« Reply #57 on: January 23, 2010, 05:45:26 AM »
The Hudson is from a 1951 brochure
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Re: Back seat drivers
« Reply #58 on: January 23, 2010, 05:56:30 AM »
Well done. The answer was in a brochure, of course.
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Re: Back seat drivers
« Reply #59 on: January 23, 2010, 10:08:35 AM »
The score goes like this:
Ehhxekt 6 points
Dynamike 5 points
metalshapes and pnegyesi 2 points
neilshouse, knightfan and Porridgehead 1 point
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