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Q447 - solved - Cannon Mk1 / Cannonball
« on: April 27, 2009, 06:33:21 PM »
A juicy point awaits the one who plucks the answer to this fruity puzzle: what's the name of this car?

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Re: Q447
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2009, 10:26:44 AM »
Your move

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Re: Q447
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2009, 03:46:43 AM »
1948 Gordano?

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Re: Q447
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2009, 05:17:50 AM »
Not a Gordano ...

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Re: Q447
« Reply #4 on: June 03, 2009, 05:20:11 PM »
On the up

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Re: Q447
« Reply #5 on: December 31, 2009, 12:08:30 AM »
Cannon Mk1

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Re: Q447
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2010, 06:40:01 PM »
I think you've got it. The builder is Cannon but the actual name of the car is...? Your puzzle till your next reply...

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Re: Q447
« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2010, 06:46:51 PM »
That what its called in a book I own.

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Re: Q447
« Reply #8 on: January 04, 2010, 10:14:53 PM »
I found this ..." the "Cannonball," as some called it, was finished bearly two weeks before the Pebble Beach race, on november 5 1950"...

In the text, but not in the Index or the Header.

Was that an unofficial nickname, maybe?

Edit.

From another book...

..."Cannon built the Mk1, sometimes referred to as the Cannonball or the Vacuum Sweeper, in 1950." ...

Index and Header both call it the Cannon Mk1 in that book as well.
« Last Edit: January 04, 2010, 10:20:47 PM by metalshapes »

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Re: Q447
« Reply #9 on: January 05, 2010, 03:13:55 AM »
OK a point to you! Yes, I had it down as the Cannonball, built by Ted Cannon

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Re: Q447 - solved - Cannon Mk1 / Cannonball
« Reply #10 on: January 05, 2010, 03:34:00 AM »
Thanks.   :)